Imagine a world where you can work when and where you want. Where you can use your expertise where it is needed and can pick and choose who you work for: globally.

Welcome to my world, my world in the Cloud. Cloud Computing is the biggest buzzword in IT today. Everyone is talking about it, but what does it actually mean for me?

It means I can work from home around my family, I can work from home around my client’s needs, I can work from anywhere I have broadband internet access, I can work the hours that suit me or my clients. It means I can work for clients down the road or halfway around the world. It means I can interact both professionally and socially in real time, not being restricted by time zones, language barriers, hardware, or security restrictions on in-house hosted applications.

By using my high speed broadband, my computer and the wide range of Web 2.0 services available Cialis Jelly to me; and using SaaS providers my setup is minimal.
You might be surprised by the long list of benefits of software as a service (SaaS):

*Because these services are accessed through your browser and an Internet connection, you avoid software, hardware and network infrastructure costs.

*Data centers provide levels of security, backup, redundancy and performance that go far beyond what the typical individual, small or medium business can imagine.

*The provider takes care of patches, updates and other administration.

*Remote access from anywhere is a given. From home, from work, from your local cafe, park or Library, from your Smart Phone or the latest i-device.

*Your technology costs become a utility cost; you typically pay a monthly service fee that you can budget for.

*Getting away from the costly and cumbersome customization required in instances like SAP and Oracle. Rather than having to have restrictive and bureaucratic internal work processes to suit an application, the applications are simplified, intuitive, flexible and cost effective.

What you ask is all the Jargon I am throwing around, well let’s use our good friend Wikipedia here:

The term Web 2.0 is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site gives its users the free choice to interact or collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumer) of user-generated content in a virtual community.

It is a generally held belief among Internet, tech experts and social analysts the most of us will be living in the Cloud by 2020. Who wouldn’t find that kind of postmodern fluidity appealing? We’re no longer tied to offices for work, nor are our social activities locked away from our business interactions.

What can you do to facilitate this working in the Cloud philosophy?

Firstly – change your thinking! Expand your mind; take some time to think outside the box. One of my favorite places to expand my thinking beyond what I perceive as possible is TED – Ideas worth spreading. This is a mind altering experience for the uninitiated, be prepared to have your perceptions changed.

Then think about what online tools you are going to need to make this work, have you got the appropriate systems in place,

*Do you need to have chatting and video capabilities,
*Do you need a CRM system,
*Do you need to be file sharing,
*Do you need to be Bulk Emailing or Texting.

Take care though, cause once you start living in the cloud your whole mindset will be changed and the corporate or vanilla way of life will become uninteresting to you.

Author Bio: Manas Kumar is CEO of Genesis Interactive, the creators of Maxmail HQ, a world class email marketing software that does not charge on a per-email-delivered basis and Dimension CRM, a powerful CRM solution as well as FILO HQ – the number one online file sharing solution.

Category: Internet/E-Business
Keywords: Living in the Cloud,cloud computing, cloud software,SaaS,Internet,working online,Software as a Service