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Is Cloud Storage A Good Option For Your Business?

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With the increasing popularity of cloud services, even small-to-medium-sized business owners have started considering the possibilities of implementing cloud software solutions. Discussions related to the potential of the cloud platform can appear confusing to a novice in this field, but if you carefully examine the prices and the features of major services, it doesn’t have to be difficult to decide whether it would be suitable for your business. The starting point may be integrating cloud storage services.

Will it cost me a lot?

Whereas large companies can afford to invest more in improving their IT infrastructure, SMBs are usually skeptic about any kind of innovation that requires large investments. Luckily, a sufficient amount of cloud storage space doesn’t have to be as expensive. What’s more, most businesses decide to start using cloud storage services precisely because of their financial benefits.

Cloud providers offer different storage options on a pay-per-use basis, thus allowing a manager to choose an option that is appropriate for his or her business needs. The prices range from only $2.49 for 100GB a month (offered by Google), which may be enough if you plan to use it as a collaboration tool and upgrade as your business develops. Naturally, Google has other appealing options for business users, which are not only affordable, but efficient as well.

Larger enterprises, on the other hand, can afford big IT teams and massive hardware equipment, so the price is not necessarily their greatest concern. Still, they too can achieve great long-term savings, so there’s almost no reason not to use the opportunity.

Will my employees handle the new software?

The answer to this is simply – yes. Despite the fact that cloud computing is a complex concept, most cloud storage services are very simple. In fact, different studies have shown that the employees are very comfortable with using these services privately and that they demand their implementation in their workplace as well.

Regardless of a service provider you choose, the interface is very likely to be intuitive and simple to use. These services are easy download and set up, so you don’t need to hire an IT expert to help you implement them. There’s no need for organizing special trainings for the employees, as they will probably learn all about their possibilities in a day or two.

Are they efficient?

Implementing cloud storage services is often said to have a great potential for boosting productivity of the employees. This is due to the fact that they have plenty of options for file sharing and collaboration, which is essential for every business. Instead of wasting time and money on complicated collaborative software programs, a cloud storage service may be all you need for a project to run smoothly.

Considering the fact that employees now regularly use more than a single device, it is much easier for them to handle their business documents if they sync them across all their computers. In addition to this, cloud storage services enable multiple users to edit their documents at the same time and keep track of changes. There’s no need to constantly email the documents back and forth to different people, which saves precious time to the whole team.

Apparently, cloud storage services can bring many benefits to your business. Depending on your needs you may choose one service or another, but the resulting effects should be the same – increased efficiency at a low price, which is what every company strives to achieve.

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Senior business developer and financial manager with a demonstrated history of working in the SaaS and FinTech industry. She was involved in fundraising for multiple projects, both from private investors and the European Commission. Ivana is a co-founder of Authoredin, a software that supports content creation on Linkedin.

8 Comments

8 Comments

  1. tom

    July 15, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    I would say that regular consumer cloud storage would be the way to go for a small business. As far as consumer cloud storage, I’d say backupthat is one of the best kept secrets of the internet. I’ve backed up about 500GB of files for free with them by getting them to turn unused space in my email accounts into cloud storage.

    • Julie Anne

      July 25, 2013 at 5:42 pm

      If you want to look for a way to clean up PC problems, cloud storage is one way to remove the clutter. It might benefit you, and I do agree that regular consumer storage is right for most small businesses. The files need to be safe, though. You don’t want anyone hacking your data.

  2. Olivia Still

    July 15, 2013 at 8:08 pm

    Well Tom, first of all thank you for giving me the opportunity to write for your blog. I have to admit that this is the first time I’ve heard of Backupthat and I’ll be sure to check it out.

  3. Ella Rich

    July 16, 2013 at 6:46 am

    I want to thank you for giving us these tips for business growth. Really this post is an informative and contains lot of essential stuff.

  4. Olivia Still

    July 16, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    Thank you for your kind words, Ella.

  5. Rohit

    July 18, 2013 at 12:19 pm

    cloud storage is the new emerging technology now a days its not only new but its a brilliant technology which is getting pace day by day..,
    nice article Olivia 🙂

  6. Olivia Still

    July 18, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    Couldn’t agree with you more, Rohit – thank you for your comment.

  7. shailesh

    April 2, 2014 at 7:49 am

    Nice post with detailed explanation….I personally think that the use of cloud services is so important for an individuals because of the safety parameter their are some nice cloud services available in the market such as Dropbox and Google drive which is best for an indivudual…..However their are some services which is best for business, It firm like Box cloud service’s which endless list of sharing and privacy options were designed specifically for business and IT users.

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