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Cloud computing is great for the enterprise because it promotes collaboration.

With cloud data, multiple people can share, edit, and work together on documents and other files. This information is typically stored off premises and outside a company firewall in what’s called a public cloud.

Here are several ways cloud computing promotes collaboration among teams.

If you haven’t adopted cloud computing for your business yet, chances are you’re not too far behind.

Cloud adoption levels have nearly doubled since 2016, according to Louis Columbus' analysis of the 2018 Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence Market Study by Dresner Advisory Services.

In particular, 77 percent of enterprises have at least one application or a portion of their enterprise computing infrastructure in the cloud.

Why are executive leading a migration to the cloud? Here are four potential reasons.

Security Awareness training and programming is important for every industry. Security Awareness in healthcare is especially critical. The healthcare industry is responsible for the safekeeping of highly sensitive medical data. HIPAA tries to ensure that security is tight and materials are handled correctly, but that only goes so far. Any breach of a medical organization's network or data can be highly damaging to the practice in question. HIPAA violations come at a steep cost and a lost reputation is something that may never be recovered. Every organization in the healthcare industry needs Security Awareness training. This is why:

As the number of mobile phone users in the world is expected to pass the five billion mark by 2019, manufacturers are continually looking for ways to enhance smartphone usage. Even with larger devices, smartphones, and tablet computers for that matter, are often used for content consumption rather than content creation. I suspect that many of us struggle with accurately creating long or detailed documents or emails on our smartphones. The concept of “docking” your smartphone like you would a laptop computer has been around for some time. As more mobility features have been introduced into computing over the last few years the options are better than ever to turn your smartphone into a true desktop PC experience.

Imagine you are sitting at your desk, working on a project, juggling emails and instant messages, and suddenly an email comes in from the CEO of the company. She is asking “do you have time to do me a favor?”  Your first reaction is to email her back and say, “yes of course I do”. After all it is the CEO and you are a team player. She responds by asking you to go pick up multiple gift cards for clients and email her the gift card numbers.

As you may or may not be aware, Integrity offers a wide range of different technology consulting services. Some are rather standard, while some are more complex. You may not even be familiar with some of them because they are so uncommon.

But, just because they are hard to find doesn't mean they are hard to use.

Three particular services stand out as being relatively unique to Integrity, and once you know more about them, you will certainly want to use them for your company.

Can you recall the last time you changed your passwords, updated your privacy policy, or changed information on one of your private accounts? Or, to put it simply, when was the last time you had someone make sure your online data was safe?

If the answer to any of those questions is, “No,” then it would be wise to schedule a cybersecurity assessment as soon as possible. This can go for companies or for individuals, but companies carry the larger burden. Having so much information stored in one place makes businesses an easy target.

It can be difficult to manage and run a large business, especially if you’re doing it mostly alone. Even if you have a partner, there’s no guarantee that you will be able to protect your business from everything. With the recent rise of phishing scams, security breaches, and account hacking, who is to say your business is not the next target?

In the 21st century, technology can make or break a company when it comes to how they use it for their staff and clients. It also matters how they present themselves online and whether they have a strong knowledge of the rules and regulations that keep their company ethically above the water. Not everyone on your staff will have the same level of knowledge when it comes to using technology or what clients (or potential ones) would like to see from the company.

Being aware of one’s surroundings is the greatest form of self-defense.