There is a growing trend for companies to utilise Cloud Computer Services for their computing requirements. This is especially true for small to mid sized companies. The major reasons for this include…

– Great cost / benefit

– Removes maintenance and technical management issues

– Simple and quick to acquire additional resources

– Accessible from anywhere

– Always available

Essentially you pay for the resources and the services you use. No maintenance staff, server hardware or backups are required as this is all managed by the supplier.

The only major riskto South African users are interuptions to the internet network and slow access speeds.

Acquiring access to computing resources is quick and painless and can generally be arranged online. Businesses merely require access to the internet from the user workstations.