Why Google Apps Offer Cost Effective Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing has not just arrived on the scene, it has been around in one form or another for several decades now.
Obviously it was not named cloud computing then, that is a fairly new term.
Its present form evolved when the costs for small to medium businesses began to escalate; it seemed you needed more and more applications to support your company's day to day running.
Each application came with a price and each license for that application increased it.
Those costs added to the necessity of hiring IT personnel to install, update and maintain them were becoming beyond the reach of the financial resources of small to medium businesses.
A solution to the escalating cost was answered by the innovation of cloud computing services.
Several companies took on the challenge of creating affordable services that could be used by business's whereby the business only paid for the service they used.
Cloud computing, for the unfamiliar, is a collection of productivity, administrative and communications applications that are available online through a contract drawn up between a business and a cloud computing service provider.
There are several companies vying for your business and you should do your homework on each one before deciding which one to choose.
The principal is that you carry out all your work through a bank of applications available directly from the internet and not installed on individual computers.
This way it should be easier to share work and communicate with colleagues through the internet and be ever present so everyone can work together in real time.
The cost of these services varies from one service provider to another.
When looking at two of the most well known providers, Google Apps and Microsoft 365, there is a difference in favour of Google Apps.
Microsoft 365 offers a number of different packages, small business/partnerships and medium businesses with separate price ranges for the number of users within the medium business level dependant on services used.
They also have packages for kiosk workers, those who do not have dedicated terminals, and education.
The prices start at £4.
00 per user per month for the small business package, £6.
50 to £17.
75 for the medium business and £2.
00 to £6.
50 for a kiosk worker.
Google Apps costs the same price across the board and is set at £3.
30 per user per month or £33.
00 per user per year; for an annual contract.
Google Apps is free to educational establishments.
The other pricing difference is you can contract to Google Apps on a monthly basis whereas you must commit to an annual contract with Microsoft 365.
Looking at the two paragraphs relating to costs, Google Apps is certainly the cheapest and has the bonus of using a very simplistic pricing schedule.
If you are an educational establishment you certainly are 'quids' in with Google Apps.
Obviously it was not named cloud computing then, that is a fairly new term.
Its present form evolved when the costs for small to medium businesses began to escalate; it seemed you needed more and more applications to support your company's day to day running.
Each application came with a price and each license for that application increased it.
Those costs added to the necessity of hiring IT personnel to install, update and maintain them were becoming beyond the reach of the financial resources of small to medium businesses.
A solution to the escalating cost was answered by the innovation of cloud computing services.
Several companies took on the challenge of creating affordable services that could be used by business's whereby the business only paid for the service they used.
Cloud computing, for the unfamiliar, is a collection of productivity, administrative and communications applications that are available online through a contract drawn up between a business and a cloud computing service provider.
There are several companies vying for your business and you should do your homework on each one before deciding which one to choose.
The principal is that you carry out all your work through a bank of applications available directly from the internet and not installed on individual computers.
This way it should be easier to share work and communicate with colleagues through the internet and be ever present so everyone can work together in real time.
The cost of these services varies from one service provider to another.
When looking at two of the most well known providers, Google Apps and Microsoft 365, there is a difference in favour of Google Apps.
Microsoft 365 offers a number of different packages, small business/partnerships and medium businesses with separate price ranges for the number of users within the medium business level dependant on services used.
They also have packages for kiosk workers, those who do not have dedicated terminals, and education.
The prices start at £4.
00 per user per month for the small business package, £6.
50 to £17.
75 for the medium business and £2.
00 to £6.
50 for a kiosk worker.
Google Apps costs the same price across the board and is set at £3.
30 per user per month or £33.
00 per user per year; for an annual contract.
Google Apps is free to educational establishments.
The other pricing difference is you can contract to Google Apps on a monthly basis whereas you must commit to an annual contract with Microsoft 365.
Looking at the two paragraphs relating to costs, Google Apps is certainly the cheapest and has the bonus of using a very simplistic pricing schedule.
If you are an educational establishment you certainly are 'quids' in with Google Apps.
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