For a small business, setting up an email server is an expensive proposition. The server will cost thousands for just the hardware alone. The software licensing is even more and the work involved traditionally takes weeks. Amazon has been quietly solving these and other challenges to cloud computing for the small business for some years now and with the explosion of mobile Internet they are gaining a lot of attention. The same server setup, if done on Amazon can take as little as an hour or two, and can cost far less. How this works is key to understanding why it will replace existing paradigm entirely. What Is the Cloud? The concept is simple, rather than spending money on expensive computer server hardware, installing it at the office and setting up the user systems companies can just “rent” a server. The rented server resides on the Internet on a secure connection and in a secure location. Back up and maintenance are handled for you by the provider and users can be up and running in a day. Most companies have resisted this seemingly perfect solution out of fear that critical company data will be compromised, or that network bandwidth will

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