Cloud computing has seen incredible steps forward in the last 10 years – and unsurprisingly, that means the adoption rates within small to medium sized industries has soared.
However, like all aspects of IT, cloud computing doesn’t stand-still – and understanding how to leverage the technology for maximum effect is often outside the knowledge based of company owners and decision makers whose expertise lays predominantly in other fields.



We’ll take you through 6 of the most important tips that small businesses should consider when implementing and working with cloud-based IT tech, from security and backups to collaboration and recruitment…



Encourage collaboration



Cloud networking has had a fascinating impact on people’s ability to truly collaborate with one another.



Here’s an interesting fact:



Large companies report that the effectiveness and productivity that comes as a result of collaborating over the cloud far surpasses anything that was seen when workers sat at desks close to one another and shared documents in a more rudimentary fashion. If you’ve been in a workplace that duplicates spreadsheets before adding to them, renaming them then recirculating them, you’ll know exactly how frustrating this can be!



So, the teamwork is strong when you’re not sitting with your team it would appear.



With this in mind, you should be encouraging your team to fully buy-in to these new collaboration tools. Whether you’re simply file-sharing using an service like DropBox, Google’s G-Suite or Microsoft’s 365 range of products – or working hand-in-hand on complex projects in specialist software, it turns out that we get more done when we’re digitally together.



Always be thinking about security



The cloud offers a huge array of benefits – but security isn’t touted as being one of those things. That’s not to say that the cloud is a big risk – the companies who are providing the services are huge and highly reputable in most cases, but be careful not to be lulled into a false sense of security.



In many instances, technology isn’t to blame when things go wrong with the cloud – for every genuine ‘hack’ there’s likely to be 1,000 instances of human error – whether that’s lost files, poor passwords or other risky online behaviour.



As such, you should start by implementing strong policies and procedures around your employees access to cloud based resources.



Of course, data security isn’t just limited to protecting against those with malicious intent – there are countless more instances of file loss or file corruption that don’t get the same kind of coverage that a ‘hack’ does – so you also need to think about READ MORE http://www.achcodetech.com/2018/02/list-cloud-computing-tips-small-businesses.html