Cloud Computing Options: Hosted App Model is the Tweener You've Been Looking For

Cloud Computing Options: Hosted App Model is the Tweener You’ve Been Looking For

Small businesses and workgroups in large enterprises face daily challenges in making business information available to co-workers and business partners. Different users have different requirements for applications and data, and often work from different locations.  For a small business owner, this may mean keeping a set of books at each of several business locations, or perhaps trying to bring the data home to work on at night. For a business enterprise, this could mean providing centralized application and data access to multiple branch offices or a distributed workforce.

Anytime, Anywhere

Managing data in a distributed environment is very difficult. When data files are stored on local PCs or on multiple servers, the organization may be spending quite a bit of money to backup and protect only a portion of its information assets.