Data Deposit Box Online Backup Expert Tips: Online Computing Buzz Draws Benefits For Small Businesses

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By Ben Puzzuoli, Director Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox
September 28, 2015

Data Deposit Box Online Backup Expert Tips: Online Computing Buzz  Draws Benefits For Small Businesses

Online computing buzz is becoming quite raucous. It appears as if everyone is talking about online computing buzz, supporting it and even making it a point of discussion. The murmur around all online computing service can be puzzling, as they are being offered. Nevertheless, on the Internet today, a number of online computing services are being offered, including:

• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) and
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Indeed, there is a need for you to know how to make use of these platforms (which are typically offered to large organizations) to provide services to your small organization.

The PaaS service is designed for provision of custom applications. For example, Force.com, Microsoft or Google normally provide environments on which organizations can utilize customized applications with the help of cloud based hired platform services.

The Software as a Service (SaaS) is designed to provide users opportunity to gain access to applications in the cloud. Any organization or enterprise that is using this system does not need to purchase licenses for the already installed applications on the systems or build their own application. All they need is to buy the right to use the application in the cloud. Take a look at this scenario, Salesfore.com provides its proprietary Customer Relationship Management application secure access to online based customers.

The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) normally makes use of the power of measurable infrastructure for small organizations. The organization will be able to run complete data center stacks with the use of cloud based infrastructure. A good IaaS example by small organizations to their benefits is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Both PaaS and IaaS are less frequently used, but SaaS is known to have enormous customer base. There are good number of mature SaaS options available, including security as a service, storage as a service, system management as a service, project planning as a service or even network as a service. These services can be made discretely available or be packed together in the cloud. There can be chances to obtain permutation and combination, as well as customizations on request for the uses of the organizations.

It is important for all these options to be adequately evaluated in the context of any organization that want to choose any of the service optioned mentioned above. So, the needs and capability or an enterprise are the things to consider before selecting any of the above mentioned service options. The problem will still lie in the capacity to combine cloud service deployments in the business strategy at the same time making sure that the strategy does not, in any way, violate organizational privacy, level of performance, as well as the security of the organization.

About the Author: Ben Puzzuoli is Director of Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox, a Toronto based cloud data backup service provider, which is listed at both the Toronto and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges. DataDepositBox technologies and solutions are currently used daily by over 200,000 customers, 1,000 resellers, 25 MSPs and private label partners for online backup and recovery, archiving, disaster readiness, secure file sharing and remote access. Visit DDB website here: www.DataDepositBox.com

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