Moving Businesses to the Cloud
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MANILA, Philippines — These days, it is commonplace to hear talk of businessmen moving their investments and business processes “into the cloud.”
Those in the know would immediately relate this to that widespread phenomenon called cloud computing, but for the technology-challenged, certain questions come to mind: If the cloud is here, where is it? What is it exactly? What are its risks and how do businesses prepare for it?
In a nutshell, cloud computing is simply using Internet-based services to support certain processes of the business. And whether they realize it or not, most Filipino businesses have already set foot on the cloud.
Using Gmail or Yahoo for business e-mails, for example, implies that a company is going into the cloud to let Google and Yahoo’s computers handle their e-mail. Most of us have been using Internet-based services for more than a decade, but it is only now that enterprise-based solutions are becoming available online, including those that may be vital to running one’s own company.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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