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Monday, September 24, 2012
Cloud Computing Is Here To Stay
Tonight after dinner, my 7 year old daughter was on the computer in the office and I wanted to pay some bills before my trip next week - so I grabbed my iPad and sat down at the dining room table.
Take a look at how Cloud Computing impacted just 1.5 hours of my day:
- I launched PNC Bank's Virtual Wallet app and laid out my bills on the table, entered them into bill pay, deposited a check through the app, and checked on my credit card balance.
- I used the mSecure app to keep all of my passwords since it syncs with Dropbox from my iPad to my iPhone.
- I then launched the Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) app to access the cash flow spreadsheet my business partner and I use to track monthly income and expenses. (Can't edit spreadsheets in the app yet on the iPad - come on Goog!)
- I had to send a scan of a bill to my business partner, so I launched Genius Scan's app, took a picture of the bill, cropped it, converted it to a PDF and emailed it through Gmail.
- I then started working on our annual workers compensation audit from Traveler's Insurance. They needed to know how much certain employees earned last year, so I accessed Paychex's App and reviewed the W-2s from each employee in question.
When I first started my sales career at NJ Bell (which eventually became Verizon), we had a dumb terminal on our desks which accessed the server. We all thought this was crazy because when Tel-Star went down - no one could work! In my opinion, we are swiftly headed to the days when a significant majority of our data is stored in the cloud.
If you are building a business or selling for one - if you aren't in the cloud, you're simply in trouble
