A few notes

Why the cloud?

Why the cloud ?

First - What is the Cloud ?

* Any number of blogs / articles and definitions

* Accessing information services and software over the internet as opposed to the same installed on servers based at your own site. You pay to use ‘on demand’

* Cloud offers cost / distribution savings.

* Speed of deployment

* There are generally currently 3 types of Cloud

* Public, Private and Hybrid

* Software-as-a-Service (SaaS); IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)

* Public – email, office 365 etc., photo storage (Amazon). Generic software available to everyone.

* Private – specific, business centric applications, combining IaaS and SaaS

Why the cloud ?

What advantages does Cloud Offer?

*No software to distribute and support

*No IT overhead for Clients; saves hardware and support costs

*URL; log in securely from anywhere you have Internet access

*Don’t have to worry about purchasing software upgrades

* Private Cloud Systems are fully secure

* Password access, and SSL, an encrypted communication channel that renders all transactions between your browser and servers impenetrable

Why the cloud ?

Documents Online is a Private Cloud range of subscription solutions

* Provides advanced security and fault tolerance

* Combined IaaS and SaaS

* Each client has it’s own data base instance

* AES128 encryption of data is available

* Documents Online is fully HTML5 so can be used on mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones

* With DOL you get a generous monthly storage to start

* Upgrade space requirements easily

* Secure access, in a UK data centre (Maidenhead) Take the tour at http://www.rapidswitch.com/dctour.aspx