How Cloud Computing can be used as a weapon to fight against Recession? - By: Wiiliam Smith

As we are getting news that many big brand banks in US has lost credit ratings, clearly showing recession is striking back and it is much stronger this time and impact of it can be huge. As this is the age of global business, companies are not limiting their business to one country and very much dependent on other country business conditions. Economic condition of any big country can hit their business badly. Even in year 2008, Many business faced rough time, many got shut down, many people lost their jobs and whichever survived struggled to manage the cost of operations and worked only in huge loss. Small and medium enterprises were the most suffered business segment as they found it hard to work under such a financial crisis where they were not having enough money to pay for the cost of operations including monthly salary of the employee, maintenance of IT infrastructure, pay their telephone bills. They found themselves tied up and eventually compelled to shut down the operations.

Now if we feel that we should be ready to wind up our operations once again, it is actually not the right thing to do. But what we should do is to find out the alternatives which can help us not only to survive but work in a normal manner even in recession. Well, Cloud Computing is one of the solution which is very hot, where we look for cost saving. We can save a lot of operational cost with the help of cloud computing. Though it is an upcoming concept but ultimately is a saviour for us in the upcoming tough time.

Now lets see, how cloud computing can help us out. Cloud computing can be broken into many parts. One of that is Application hosting. Small and medium enterprise can host their business application on a virtual server which enables them to work on their application from anywhere. So that means a small business owner would not require an office to carry out the operations. Owner can ask the staff to work from home on their system requiring only internet connection and collaborate and coordinate while monitoring their action from his/her system. At the same time many employees can work simultaneously and work will not suffer. And the business owner can save the office rent and maintenance cost. Application hosting service provider or cloud computing service provider provides free data backup, advance security and encryption, free technical support that means requirement of IT support people would be eliminated and will reduce the salary bill. As cloud computing ensures high quality infrastructure on monthly payment basis, so it will reduce the burden of operational cost. Not only this it will reduce the travelling cost as employees are not required to come to office, so conveyance expense will also come under control. Ultimately all kind of operation expenses will be reduced to less than 25% which means the owner will be not only able to sustain the business but would be able to maintain the profit margin.

Apart from application hosting, hosted PBX has also come into picture which enables the people to work from home while using the same office no. at different global locations. This telephony system is not only cheap but can also improve the image. A small business owner can get high quality telephony service with small cost. No physical PBX is required and one can use it while travelling to different location without letting client know that he/she is out of office. As again hosted pbx is stored on cloud server and one can operate it with his/her laptop with all kind of advance features like IVR, Call parking, call queue, voice mail etc.

Recession can be impactful, but if we can find out the right alternatives, we can fight it out against it. And for sure, cloud computing is one of the alternative which can be proved beneficial for the small and medium enterprises to keep themselves growing even in economic low down.

About the Author

William Smith is an IT analyst at Real Time Data Services which is a leading Cloud Computing and Application Hosting company. The company specializes in hosting many software including accounting software (QuickBooks Hosting, Peachtree), QuickBooks add-ons(Fishbowl, eBridge, Sourcelink), Windows Server Hosting, MS SQL Server, Tax software, CRM software and hosts many more

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