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Pay as you go is the battle cry in this TechRepublic piece. I say absolutely correct. Hosted or cloud computing provides key advantages like:
- portability
- mobility
- low risk
- low or ZERO upfront investment
- virtually limitless scalability / growth
- low or no hardware needs
- low or no support needs
But what are the downsides? The article summarizes it best:The cares that must be taken when hiring cloud services are the same that would need to be taken with any regular IT provider: make sure you need what you are buying, that you are getting a good price, and that your expectations match the service level offered. Information about different providers is only a Google search away, so do some research. In terms of costs vs. benefits, however, there is no other way to go.
There’s no substitute for good due diligence.
Related articles
- Moving to the Cloud (vendio.com)
- What Small Business Needs to Learn From Enterprise Cloud Computing (pccentral.us)
