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Cloud Computing


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This course will provide you with:
  • The three cloud computing benefits: agility, peace of mind and cost
  • Microsoft 365 solutions
  • Why you should switch to cloud computing on premise

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Hi, there are lots of SMB’s “small medium businesses” that are wondering about the cloud benefits. To me there are three main ones:
  • Agility
  • Peace of mind
  • Cost
Microsoft is a market leader when it comes to cloud solutions, especially with office 365 which is the fastest growing product in the history of Microsoft. Office 365 is really made up of 5 solutions:
  • Business email
  • Office with Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Instant messaging and video conferencing
  • Web sites with SharePoint
  • Social enterprise with yammer
All the solution are hosted in our tier 4 data center where we are spending millions of dollars to make it secure and private. Also, you get the latest and greatest features always in a ninety-nine point nine percent at a fraction of the cost they would cost you on premise.
Everybody needs productively and collaboration IT solutions like email, word processing and web conferencing – especially SME’s. So why have the headaches of investing and managing your own hardware and IT environment when you can acquire those services for a lot cheaper through Microsoft’s cloud and reinvest that money into more strategic projects that will bring growth to your company.
Save your money, pay for what you use with office 365.

The real benefits of the cloud are slightly different than we originally predicted; they are less about pure cost efficiency, and more about speeding up time to market (aka agility). Every CIO and IT decision maker should be thinking about how they can use cloud and hosting to accelerate time to market, which means turning IT from a cost center into a revenue center. Toby Owen, Peer 1 Hosting.