{"id":11259,"date":"2014-08-11T23:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/aug\/12\/assessing-how-cloud-computing-has-transformed-workspace\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T23:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T23:51:47","slug":"assessing-how-cloud-computing-has-transformed-the-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/assessing-how-cloud-computing-has-transformed-the-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing how cloud computing has transformed the workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&rsquo;s workplace is an entirely different animal to just five years ago &ndash; and it&rsquo;s growing and changing at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n<p>The huge amount of enterprise mobility solutions on the market are enabling employees to do various tasks on their smartphones and tablets; as Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/nov\/20\/salesforce-ceo-benioff-unleashes-salesforce1-cites-internet-customers-future\/\">on the unveiling of the Salesforce1 app<\/a>, he could run his entire business from his phone.<\/p>\n<p>Yet none of this could be possible without the cloud powering it, as Backupify has been investigating. The cloud provider notes that in the pre-cloud office, &ldquo;computers were a mess of tangled cords and colossal towers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is of course a bit of a generalisation &ndash; you can still be using towers while adopting a corporate file-sharing solution, naturally &ndash; but there are some interesting stats. It&rsquo;s easy to forget that a whopping 13 floppy disks were needed to install Windows 95.<\/p>\n<p>With 93% of US small and medium businesses backing up some portion of their data to the cloud, it&rsquo;s evident where the trend is going. Take a look at this infographic from Backupify to see how they envisage the cloudy office:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/backupify_infographic.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"__mce_add_custom__\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/backupify_infographic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"2993\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&rsquo;s workplace is an entirely different animal to just five years ago &ndash; and it&rsquo;s growing and changing at a rapid rate.<br \/>\nThe huge amount of enterprise mobility solutions on the market are enabling employees to do various tasks on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}