Thomas Bedell releases Business in the Cloud.

TAMPA, Fla. - July 23, 2013 - PRLog -- Thomas Bedell releases Business in the Cloud.  The complete nuts and bolts guide to running your business in the cloud is now available for download.  This release is a complete guide geared toward businesses looking to move to the cloud. "There is a lot of buzz around cloud computing" states Thomas Bedell.  "This eBook is designed to help business professionals and small business owners in understanding how it all works."  Thomas Bedell is the Principal Partner for IT Partners, Inc.  IT Partners specializes in managed services for small business.  

Business in the Cloud takes a non-technical approach to explaining how small businesses can increase productivity, lower costs and increase brand awareness using many of today's most popular "open source" applications for business.  IT Partners has developed Virtual Office.  Virtual Office is a  complete set of applications, managed by IT Partners in the cloud.  Readers can subscribe and download the digital version instantly at http://itpartners.us.com

Virtual Office is a complete suite of open source tools developed in the cloud to solve a myriad of personal and business needs.  Individuals and Small to Medium business should consider reducing cost by reducing overhead and costly technology infrastructure.  Virtual Office reduces those costs by eliminating the need for expensive hardware and software.  Businesses realize additional savings because an IT staffing is not required to keep the system running.  Virtual Office is completely outsourced in the cloud.  We developed our platform on the RackSpace cloud computing platform.  Rackspace is known for their "fanatical support".  By utilizing Rackspace, we are able to offer a superior product.

Virtual Office is built using the latest open source applications including, asterisk, Drupal, FreePBX, Joomla, Magento, osCommerce, ownCloud, VTiger and Wordpress.  These great open source applications are customized and optimized to meet the needs of the business.  Virtual Office is best positioned for micro business.  Micro Businesses are classified as having 1 to 10 employees. Micro Businesses often have little or no technology support.  Virtual Office helps micro businesses compete by creating a unified communications platform.  A simple PBX with assingned phone number(s) and extensions for each employee.  The PBX can handle all aspects of communications including IVR, Voicemail, Call forwarding, extensions, call queue, call parking, music on hold and more.  These features are mostly found in expensive hardware solutions.  Virtual Office provides a "data vault", online cloud storage.  Cloud Storage provides "Drop Box" type utility.  Business data is securly stored and shared with employees anywhere, anytime.

Virtual Office provides content management using a variety of open source (CMS) COntent Management Systems such as Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress and gives total control over the business "brand".  Businesses can now focus on automated sales and marketing by creating sales and marketing campaigns.  Automated sales and marketing campaigns increase sales by "triggering" events as customers and employees interact with products and services; Online, Anywhere, Anytime.

Virtual Office uses reflexive technology that allows it to adapt to any device, anytime, anywhere.  Virtual Office requires no hardware to buy, no software to license.  Virtual Office is only available from IT Partners by monthly subscription. Subscription rates are from $0.00 to $49.00 per user per month. For complete details about Virtual Office or IT Partners please visit: http://www.itpartners.us.com