{"id":581,"date":"2013-08-08T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:04:40","slug":"cloud-services-for-medium-sized-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/cloud-services-for-medium-sized-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Services for Medium Sized Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SOLUTIONS_CLOUD.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SOLUTIONS_CLOUD-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"cloud services chicago\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SOLUTIONS_CLOUD-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SOLUTIONS_CLOUD-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SOLUTIONS_CLOUD-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SOLUTIONS_CLOUD.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever considered <a title=\"Cloud services provider\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/cloud.html\" target=\"_blank\">cloud services<\/a> for medium sized businesses and you&#8217;ve laid it aside in favor or another service, there are a few things that you need to know about what computing in the cloud can offer you.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, cloud computing has literally revolutionized the way that we manage our businesses. The typical company used their own infrastructure, their own <a title=\"IT armed forces\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/it-armed-forces.html\" target=\"_blank\">IT providers<\/a> or team and purchased a wide array of costly and time sensitive software and equipment. Over time the software required replacing and the computers needed to be overhauled or replaced and the initial expense became an endless array of costs associated with computing that many small to mid-sized businesses could not afford to bear.<\/p>\n<p>Enter cloud computing which helped to defray some of those costs and help the smaller or medium sized business to exist&#8211;even excel&#8211;without the high cost of paying for and replacing all of the software and hardware that they required to do business.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing is having your cake and eating it too. It means that you can have all of the services that you need, all of the software that you require and not have to own the servers to host it or pay for the team to correct the issues that may arise with it.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing means being able to access all of your processes and all of your information from any computer in the world at any time that you like. 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