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Do you remember life before cell phones?  When you had to go home to listen to your messages?  When you carried change for a pay phone?

I confess -- I was a late adopter of the cell phone, skipping the brick entirely.  I also missed the early flip phones -- so small they fit right in a pocket … of a large backpack or fanny pack (yikes!).

Work demanded that I carry the phone after being one of the last with a beeper.   They were no longer willing to tolerate the guy running the website having a 10 minute search for a phone after being paged.

Once I had the phone, everything changed.  It was so convenient, being able to contact people quickly.  Calling ahead for reservations, or talking with family.  Getting directions without pulling over at a gas station.

The cell phone changed our lives, changed them to the point of it being difficult to remember when we didn’t have them.

Cloud computing is doing the same.  Services like Apple’s iCloud are making us forget how cumbersome it was copying music, pictures, and other files between our devices.  The loss of a hard drive is no longer catastrophic, provided you use a cloud backup system like Carbonite.

For business, software like NetSuite makes it easy to get real-time access your business system and eliminates the headaches associated with servers and IT upgrades.  Google and others provide email and office productivity (documents, spreadsheets, chat, calendar, etc.).    There are many more services, covering everything you need to move your business to the cloud.

Like the cell phone, cloud computing is changing everything.   We will quickly forget the time before cloud computing because it just makes things so much more convenient.

If you are a late adopter like me, give us a call and we can help your business take advantage of the cloud.  But please… don’t call from a pay phone.