While large enterprises could spend millions of dollars ensuring their IT infrastructure security & setting up their intranet & extranet collaboration system, companies like Egnyte provide similar facilities but at a fraction of a cost to small business organizations.

Egnyte brings cloud computing & all it’s benefits to small & medium businesses. Lets look at the advantages a company like this offers.

To begin with, the largest benefit is that of cost.

The second benefit is that of the small lead time. Egnyte has the entire infrastructure in place and like any other cloud computing systems all you need to do is to hook onto their systems.

The next in line of benefits is the lowering of risks & extending business continuity. As a small business owner any risk could cost you money. Investment in infrastructure, especially in times of such rapid technology changes, is a definite risk. Collaboration facilitators like this could save all risks of investment in technology.

The services come at an affordable cost & often prices could be tailored to the specific needs. You could either go in for flat rates if you are quite sure of your usage patterns or go on a pay-per-use basis where you only pay for as much of service you use.

These collaboration systems also provide an inherent business continuity plan. Assuming that you leverage all the features, they provide your business with safe data storage & secured access over the internet. So, not only would you not miss another presentation deck to your customer, you could also store all the soft copies of your business documents on the service provider’s servers reducing chances of their being lost, stolen or tampered.

Technologies like cloud computing have progressed much in the last 2 years. Their ease of use, user friendliness & service up time have prompted many small business owners to opt for their services instead of blocking your own office space with technologies and servers that are just waiting to be outdated.

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