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iCloud Holds Tremendous Potential for Small & Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs)

Announcement posted by iCloud Inc 09 Jan 2012

iCloudDrive for Business; Performance Edge of a Networked Company through Added Flexibility and Mobility at Affordable Price Points

There are a number of different ways that cloud computing can drive business value. In addition to lowering the cost of IT, cloud can help provide access to new markets and enable new business models. Cloud service provider iCloud Inc. brings a value proposition to SMBs by providing a service that has the potential to transform business strategy in the following ways:

Increasing business responsiveness with mobility providing connect anywhere flexibility and real-time access to all your data and informationsharing without device or location constraints.

Affordable access and significant cost advantages achieved by lower IT operating and capital costs and improved asset utilization; transform IT costs from a capital investment model to an operating expense model freeing up funding to enable new ideas to be initiated.

Scale on demand through an open and elastic IT environment that complements and enhances IT management and security options with no hardware to buy and maintain and no upfront costs.

The manifestation of these value drivers may be realized through the adoption and use of iCloudDrive for Business, a complete cloud solution bringing SMBs powerful backup, collaboration and sharing features. Designed for the enterprise market, iCloudDrive for Business is a flexible and cost effective way to manage information and become more networked. Regardless of the number of computers in your office, you have backup to everything inclusive of many extra features. Employees can access individual or team files from anywhere, share files and collaborate on documents while you complete control over your company’s files maintained by setting up individual permissions, control sharing, and maintaining the ability to monitor any part of the system.

With iCloudDrive for Business, employees have improved communication and collaboration through new ways to engage with customers and a faster way to respond to clients. iCloud’s all-in-one iCloudDrive services brings value for money through high-capacity cloud storage. iCloudDrive Express designed for enterprise computing, provides small businesses with the most flexible and cost effective way to manage information and applications at $38.00/monthly with 2TB (2048 GB) of storage for access, backup and redundancy of all your important business files. iCloudDrive Standard provides a service for 10 users and for only $125 monthly, your service is inclusive of 10TB (10,240 GB) of storage space.

Smaller businesses historically were challenged with the costs associated with implementing a robust IT infrastructure and as a result, were limited in their ability to access the benefits of a sophisticated, enterprise IT solution. iCloud breaks these barriers by enabling IT services through affordable price points and a model that allows for scaling without investing anything upfront for an expensive infrastructure. As your company adds more employees or your demand for more storage space grows, you only pay for the level of growth you require making it easier and more cost efficient for small and medium sized businesses to implement new business strategies.

Cloud is a key advancement that is real and being adopted by organizations across many industries. iCloudDrive Express and iCloudDrive Standard elevate the potential for SMBs by enabling access to enterprise-level IT at affordable price points. Cloud computing is fundamentally easier to use than the traditional IT model – the sooner a business starts experimenting with cloud the better. Because these services are based on pay-for-use models, SMBs can try them with very little risk. With iCloud, a full 14-day Money Back Guarantee provides the opportunity to experience first-hand how iCloudDrive brings added flexibility to businesses. Through the power of cloud computing, iCloudDrive for Business creates endless possibilities for the small-medium enterprise market through mobility, data security and back-up.

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iCloud delivers high-performing Cloud solutions with powerful backup that is automatic, effortless and seamless bringing anywhere anytime access to your information through a standard web browser. iCloud Inc. and its products and services are in no affiliation with Apple Inc. or Apple iCloud service. Visit www.i-cloudinc.com or contact info@i-cloudinc.com, Tel: (817) 400-6403 / (800)-877-3553.