Explaining Cloud Advantages To Someone Who Doesn’t Have A Clue

What with cloud computing being all the rage today it’s hardly surprising that more and more computing companies are trying to take advantage of this boom by coming up with their own suite of cloud computing products and services.

The trend is sure to get the attention of management from all over sooner or later, not least your clueless boss. So how will you explain this new technology to your chief when he starts badgering you for information?

To do so, you need to start at the beginning. In simple terms, cloud computing is basically a remote platform where you can save data and run applications. Unfortunately, most if not all data cloud providers will not disclose exactly how your data is saved, or how applications will be running on their sites.

The deal is that cloud computing vendors are not obliged to tell you how they will manage anything. The only thing that you can do to give yourself a semblance of security is to make sure there are disclosure provisions stipulated in your contract.

Saying that, there are many good reasons as to why companies and businesses should move some or even all of their processes to “clouds”, but the most compelling one is the potential cost savings.

When you use cloud computing you’ll be able to gain access to technology that in reality would be far too impractical or expensive for the average small or mid-sized firm to purchase by themselves.   With cloud computing, it’s possible to leverage the high value system management processes of a vendor at the fraction of a cost.

Cloud computing platforms are set to become an industry standard in the not-too-distant future. There’s too much that businesses can gain from cloud for this technology to be ignored. Right now, there is still large scale reluctance to for many to switch to cloud computing, due to the understandable security concerns.

But the thing is, you really don’t need to migrate all your data and applications to cloud right away. No one is forcing you to give up ALL of your sensitive data at once. You can test the waters first, and just use clouds to store less sensitive files. If it turns out good, upgrade your subscription later on.

The savings that you can make will surely bode well for the company in the long run. Not only will you reduce your expenses on computer infrastructure, but on manpower as well, as cloud contracts generally include management, support, and service maintenance.

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