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Take Advantage of Your Cloud Services
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
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?
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
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
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
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