Mobility can be a very valuable asset for a
company. This not only means that employees can actually move within their
office, but also that they can work from anywhere – home, train, coffee shop etc. However, for old-fashioned,
fixed and immobile company, the concept of mobile organization can be frightening.
Cloud computing is a perfect solution for companies that wants mobility.
It allows organizations to provide collaboration and communication tools,
software, apps and access to documents and databases not only from anywhere but
also on a cost per use (or user) basis. This has been significant impact on an
organisation’s flexibility and ability to introduce new tools and phase out old
tools. No longer should IT project should take a year to implement new tool.
Cloud computing has a lot of benefits when it comes to mobility. First
of all, employees can access information across different locations and
devices. Mobility also improves service levels. Nokia is a great example how
cloud computing helped them to scale and take advantage of latest technology as
it becomes available.
Cloud computing is very beneficial for small businesses. It makes it
possible to harness the computing power and technology that has only previously
been available to enterprises with big
budgets. The other thing that cloud computing brings is scalability and
flexibility, so you can choose when to have 1000 server working or you can run
on bare minimum.
Cloud computing is levelling the technology playing field. It impacts
the mobility by making it available to companies large or small. Previously,
things like video conferencing was available to large organizations with bit IT
budgets. With cloud computing, smaller
companies with small budgets also can have video conferences and they are now
able to compete with bigger ‘fish’ in the market.
Besides the clear benefits of cloud computing to any company on a
market, still there are security and privacy concerns. Some might say that the
risk is actually unfounded. However, the ENISA’s (the EU Agency for Network and
Information Security) report of cloud computing risks that must be taken into
consideration when moving to the cloud.
Source: Taken from Adam Davidi article How is cloud computing enhancing our ability to work anywhere?
http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/dec/18/cloud-enhancing-work-anywhere-flexible