{"id":4662,"date":"2012-11-19T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/nov\/19\/5-reasons-why-small-businesses-choose-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:30:00","slug":"5-reasons-why-small-businesses-choose-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/5-reasons-why-small-businesses-choose-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons why small businesses choose the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has recently been shown that 80% of private businesses involved in foreign trade are small or medium sized businesses and many of these are growing or looking to expand and develop.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding a business however means more people, bigger servers, more complex IT management, more computers and ultimately, more data to manage.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to this is increasingly being seen to be cloud computing with its offerings ranging from <strong>dedicated servers<\/strong>, managed hosting and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses have embraced this new way of facilitating business expansion, using it to control data and finance management. Here are five reasons why small businesses are choosing the cloud:<\/p>\n<p>1. Using cloud servers means that you&rsquo;ll be getting protection 24\/7. Your information will be constantly monitored remotely and companies experiencing power cuts or hacker infiltrations will have their systems and data secure.<\/p>\n<p>2. Cloud servers will simplify your filing system &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has recently been shown that 80% of private businesses involved in foreign trade are small or medium sized businesses and many of these are growing or looking to expand and develop.<br \/>\nExpanding a business however means more people, bigger servers, mor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}