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Increasingly, organisations are being asked to adopt cloud computing solutions to support parts of their operation. However, are there circumstances when the cloud is not a good idea?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cloud computing has been around for well over a decade, and since our inception, we at ICT Pulse, have written several articles on the topic<\/a>. Those of us who have web-based accounts, such as Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail, to name a few, which would be most of us, are already using a cloud-based service, and really would not know what we would do without them.<\/p>\n

Across the Caribbean region, several data centres have been established, which offer a variety of services, including some cloud-based solution. Many of the centres owned by the major telecoms companies (Digicel and Flow), and so can be used by their business customers. However, there still appear to be some hesitancy by Caribbean organisations, in particular, to consider cloud computing to support their operational needs.<\/p>\n

Cloud computing: a quick primer<\/h3>\n

Although we have explained it in our earlier articles<\/a>, cloud computing works in the same way as your web-based email account. An application is located and runs on servers owned and operated by third parties, but you (as a user) log into it over the Internet to use the application.<\/p>\n

Currently, the technology is sufficiently developed so that a variety of services can be provided remotely (in the cloud), including but not limited to:<\/p>\n