Hello, Future: Cloud Computing For Small Businesses

May 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Enterprise-class cloud computing solutions enabling your business to centralize its IT infrastructure and eliminate the need to have desktops, servers, and a full IT staff in-house has traditionally only been available to “the big guys,” through providers like Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and Go Grid. Well not anymore! Now the small and medium sized business (SMB) has access to secure, infinitely-scalable, and affordable cloud computing solutions that they do not have to support, monitor, or implement themselves.

5N Cloud, a Denver, CO based company, has been working over the last three years to create cloud computing solutions for the SMB, and more specifically for those in the financial, legal, healthcare, and other security-sensitive industries. In addition to the high-security nature of their cloud, they have also designed their solutions with regulatory compliance in mind, making them one of the first cloud providers to do so. Before 5N Cloud, businesses within these industries could not safely move their IT resources into the cloud.

Unlike the large cloud computing providers, 5N Cloud’s offerings are fully supported.  This means that you don’t need to have any knowledge of how to implement and manage cloud computing solutions. All of 5N Cloud’s offerings are backed by strict service level agreements (SLAs) throughout the entire implementation process and for the lifetime of the customer.

Using these recent advances in cloud computing, SMBs with little to no IT support can now quickly gain a competitive advantage. Dodds Wealth Management, a Denver financial advisement firm, hired 5N Cloud during the 1st quarter of 2010 to implement their Anyware Disaster Recovery™ (http://5ncloud.com/disaster-recovery) . Their servers crashed just prior to their annual financial audit. 5N Cloud was able to quickly salvage all of Dodds’ sensitive information on their servers and have them up and running the next day. On top of this rapid response, 5N Cloud successfully made sure Dodds was prepared for their financial audit (http://5ncloud.com/Professional-Services). Andrew Dodds, the president of the firm, put the figure that 5N Cloud saved his company at “no less than $250,000.”

5N Cloud’s Anyware Disaster Recovery™ is the cloud technology that enabled Dodds’ systems to be recovered so quickly. Anyware Disaster Recovery™ allows businesses to continuously back-up their servers and desktops. In the event of a system failure, 5N Cloud can have all of the company’s information available and their systems back on-line within 8 hours. Considering the service starts at $1/GB, the amount of money this could save a business is staggering.

Dodds’ scenario also proves that you don’t need a full migration into the cloud in order to realize its benefits. 5N Cloud realizes that a complete cloud integration might be a little daunting for some, but doesn’t want to fully deny SMBs the benefits cloud computing offers.

Other benefits of utilizing 5N Cloud’s Anyware offerings include never having to update your systems, upgrade your hardware, and stay on top of firewall and antivirus protection.

Finally, cloud computing opens up a whole new world for traveling businesspeople, telecommuters, and employees that can’t make it into the office due to weather conditions or illness. These knowledge workers can now access their company’s entire network from any configured laptop or home desktop, anywhere in the world.

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5N Cloud is based in Denver, CO. They provide small and medium sized businesses with high-security and regulatory compliance mandates supported cloud computing solutions and complementary professional services. Their website, http://5ncloud.com/, provides further information about their cloud-based solutions and professional services, as well as more information about cloud computing in general.