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Grow Your Small Business with Cloud Hero Cloud Storage
The basic principle of increasing the business is finding the best person to get the job done, with practical cost. That is why the payroll is outsourced to ADP; In-house Email Server replaced by Google Apps Premier; Business contacts are managed by Salesforce.com.
Your in-house data storage will grow as your business grows. Over time, it will become expensive. For example, it could take a couple of days to backup 50G data to a FTP server. It will take 200 days to do the same thing for 5 Terabytes of data. Your business premise more often than not is the slowest connection to the Internet. It will not be a good plan to have local storage space grow to a point that it is hard to shift to a different site over the Internet.
1. Move Your Email Server Out First
People don't generally imagine email as storage but it is with all the messages and attachments. If you keep it local, over time you will have to improve the email servers. It is best to move it out early. Google Apps or Microsoft Windows Live could be good choices.
2. Leverage Online Storage Suites
If you don't use an web based storage space suite, employees commonly will just send electronic mail attachments around for distribution and collaboration. You may have a SharePoint server in house for that use but over time, you will run into storage troubles again. There are plenty of web based storage suites around, such as Google Docs, Windows Live SkyDrive, Box.net. You can effortlessly share files with your co-workers with these web services. All that you require is a fast and easy desktop access application to Google Docs, SkyDrive or Box.net which is what Cloud Hero offers www.cloudhero.com. You can now use Cloud Hero to move and sync data files and folders with Google and Box.net see www.cloudhero.com
3. Use Cloud Storage As a Backup Target
If you are using a local PC, you can't stop local storage space from increasing. But, you can backup critical data to cloud storage. There are plenty cloud storage services around, such as Amazon S3, AT&T Synaptic Storage and so on.
4. Use Cloud Storage As Tier 2 Storage
You may have a local file server shared by everybody in the workplace. Over time, the file server will grow old and run out of disk space. You need to be ready to replace it every 2-3 years. One of the best procedures is to have cloud storage attached to it as tier 2 storage space. After you take care of the electronic mail storage, collaboration storage space and backup storage space, the file server storage will not grow as fast so it will last longer. With cloud storage attached as tier 2, you now have a subsequent copy of the information in case anything goes wrong with the file server. It is more of a business continuity and disaster recovery solution. With Cloud Hero's 2-way automatic sync the PC and the cloud account at Google will always be redundant see www.cloudhero.com
5. Look into the Future
The best could be that there is no local storage space where your desktop is in the cloud too. Everything else is an online application delivered through a web browser. This way, instead to having a physical IT infrastructure, you have a virtual infrastructure. Cloud storage space will still be around, the only difference is the access point changed from local desktop to cloud desktop and on-line applications. This is why Cloud Hero is a perfect management tool to allow full duplication of your business data is being completed automatically on every file when it is modified. See www.cloudhero.com for more details.
