Take Advantage of Cloud Services

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Take Advantage of Your Cloud Services

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4 tips to take advantage of cloud applications

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Take Advantage of Your Cloud Services

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Cloud Advantages

• Users typically choose cloud computing to achieve a goal, whether it be cost-savings, efficiency or productivity

• Depending on the ultimate goal you’re looking to achieve by using cloud computing, the answer to this varies

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1. Review Cloud Features

• When you first sign up for an online service, take time to explore all the features– Example: Did you know

you can create a catch-all email address in Google Apps?

– Did you know you can install the Dropbox app on multiple computers as well as a mobile phone?

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2. Utilize Centralization & Integration

• The more disparate your cloud services, the harder they are to manage

• Difficult to streamline a process to integrate all these applications

• To remedy, find cloud providers that solve multiple problems at once for you– If you can’t just find one, identify a few that integrate well

with each other

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3. Educate Your Organization• It is important to educate

your employees about how to use a new service

• Go over basic features and benefits, or point them to a tutorial they can use in their spare time

• Encourage employees to find and share additional features that they may come across

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4. Find a Forum, Vendor or Colleague to Help

• Depending on the service, there may be a user forum, FAQs, support, or a colleague who already uses it to assist you

• Begin a dialogue around ways to use the service, troubleshoot issues and discover new ways to use it

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Take Action!

• Following through with #4 is a great way to discover tips and tricks specific to that application

• Thankfully, Backupify is an easily usable application and its features are straightforward– Other services such as Google Apps and Salesforce are more

complex

• Find ways to effectively navigate these apps to maximize the benefits of your cloud computing investment