Thursday, January 14, 2010

How to Keep your Business Running – Whatever the Weather


Imagine standing on a packed station platform; it’s freezing and you’re waiting for a train that will never arrive. You couldn’t get the car out of your road this morning and your children’s school is threatening to close for the day. You have urgent deadlines to meet and getting into work is looking bleak.
Whilst your staff are struggling to get into work due to cancelled trains, impossible roads and closed schools, who is going to keep your business running and your customers happy?

The big freeze has seriously disrupted public transport and taken its toll on schools, making child care arrangements an issue with employees with younger children. And as for driving to work, the daunting prospect of a hazardous journey leaves many too concerned to leave their homes.

Sound familiar? If your business is one of the many suffering financial loss and productivity nightmares then it’s time to look to technology for a solution to these problems.

Thankfully due to ‘cloud computing’, a spell of bad weather does not have to spell financial disaster or disruption for businesses.

With cloud computing, otherwise known as ‘virtual desktops’, you and your staff can safely and efficiently work from home, or from wherever you are. Deal with emails; conduct meetings via web conferences and access your document network. And all without the need for an investment in expensive hardware! Providing you or your staff have a standard PC or laptop, a virtual desktop can be accessed quickly and easily.

With virtual desktops, all your applications and data are stored on a central remote server which means you and your staff can access all the files, documents, folders, software and applications you need wherever you are, just by logging in over an internet connection.

In a nutshell, cloud computing allows you and your team to go to work, without actually having to go anywhere – perfect in these horrendous conditions!

It’s also worth mentioning that not only does cloud computing provide an extremely flexible and reliable way of working, with its automated backups and remote IT support it also offers added security and peace of mind for you and will save your business serious time and money. So it would seem that every bad weather cloud has a silver lining after all!

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