With the launch of Apple’s iCloud this week, IT professionals and tech geeks have been speculating about the pros and cons of the new cloud storage service. Dayvia Nelson, marketing manager at Cloudworks, which provides a virtual desktop solution for businesses, is an iCloud fan.
“I started out as a Mobile.Me customer, and it had become a little difficult to constantly sync information from the iPhone to the laptop,” Nelson says in an interview with Maria Korolov of Network World. “And with the iPad, it’s even more cumbersome having to plug it in and having it sync. Now it happens automatically and pushes automatically to the other devices.”
Still, as much as Nelson likes iCloud, she uses her own company’s tools for cloud access to business applications such as QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and Excel. Cloudworks features enterprise-grade security including SAS 70, PCI and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.