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How Cloud Services Can Enhance Your Business by Britton Connell
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How Cloud Services Can Enhance Your Business |
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Computers,Business
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If you are still using hard drives and even flash drives to store your data, it’s important to explore cloud services. More businesses are turning to the cloud as a way of enhancing their operations. The same can be done for yours once you learn about all of the different benefits that are available for you to tap into. Take a look at the technology that you are currently using. Fax Machines Fax machines may be used to send data to satellite offices as well as to send data into the corporate office. There are various problems with using this older form of technology. The first is that the transmissions may not be as clear as they need to be. The second is that the information coming through may have to be data entered to have a true electronic form of the data. If you were to use cloud services, the transmission of data could be organized in such a way that it would feed through to a database that is already in place within your business. This minimizes data entry and allows your business to run more smoothly. Flash Drives Flash drives, also known as USB sticks or thumb drives, are portable and allow you to take files with you on the go. These can be convenient in some instances so that you have photos, forms, and other files when you need them. This is not always the best way to access your files, however. Some of the main problems include the flash drives being lost, the data becoming corrupt, being unable to hold the size of the file that you need, as well as being able to access the files on the particular device that you need to use. The flash drive plugs into the USB port on your computer. What happens when you want to use a tablet or smartphone to open a file and there is no USB port? The files are of no use to you because you cannot access them. The solution is to turn to cloud services where you will be able to store all of your files inside of the cloud. This is a server located off premises that will place everything online. You have the files encrypted, ensuring that they are safe and visible and accessible only to you. As long as you have an internet connection, you have access to them. They cannot be lost and the cloud can hold any size file that you need. More importantly, you can access the data on any device that you have as long as you have the internet connection and the program or app to be able to open the type of file that you wish to view. By eliminating old technology and adding new technology, you enhance your business. You can see how the use of the cloud can revolutionize the way you do business because of being able to access files at any time and maintain electronic copies of everything to avoid duplicate data entry tasks.
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