Cloud Computing the New Buzz Word
Cloud computing is an emerging technology available to ecommerce merchants and other site owners who don't have the time or resources to handle an information technology infrastructure. Cloud computing allows merchants to buy computing services and pay for them as they need them. Merchants can store images, content and data in the cloud for very low cost and serve it directly out of the cloud without building up an internal infrastructure. Cloud users don't pay for overhead or services they are not using. So, when demand is high, they pay for more services and when the demand decreases, they pay for less. The flexibility of cloud computing can be particularly appealing for ecommerce companies that experience seasonal shifts in sales activity. If your company doesn't have time to deal with IT issues, look to cloud computing for solid solutions.
This The eCommerce Minute episode has the following keyword tags: ecommerce, e-commerce, cloud computing.
