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| Cloud Computing |
Life before cloud computing
Traditional business applications have always been very complicated
and expensive. The amount and variety of hardware and software required
to run them are daunting. You need a whole team of experts to install,
configure, test, run, secure, and update them.
When you multiply this effort across dozens or hundreds of apps, it’s
easy to see why the biggest companies with the best IT departments
aren’t getting the apps they need. Small and mid-sized businesses don’t
stand a chance.
Cloud computing: a better way
With cloud computing, you eliminate those headaches because you’re
not managing hardware and software—that’s the responsibility of an
experienced vendor like salesforce.com. The shared infrastructure means
it works like a utility: You only pay for what you need, upgrades are
automatic, and scaling up or down is easy.
Cloud-based apps can be up and running in days or weeks, and they
cost less. With a cloud app, you just open a browser, log in, customize
the app, and start using it.
Businesses are running all kinds of apps in the cloud, like customer
relationship management (CRM), HR, accounting, and much more. Some of
the world’s largest companies moved their applications to the cloud with
salesforce.com after rigorously testing the security and reliability of
our infrastructure.
As cloud computing grows in popularity, thousands of companies are
simply rebranding their non-cloud products and services as “cloud
computing.” Always dig deeper when evaluating cloud offerings and keep
in mind that if you have to buy and manage hardware and software, what
you’re looking at isn’t really cloud computing but a false cloud.
Cloud 2: Mobility and collaboration
The latest innovations in cloud computing are making our business
applications even more mobile and collaborative, similar to popular
consumer apps like Facebook and Twitter. As consumers, we now expect
that the information we care about will be pushed to us in real time,
and business applications in the cloud are heading in that direction as
well. With Cloud 2, keeping up with your work is as easy as keeping up
with your personal life on Facebook.
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