Most small business owners tend to shy away from the use of too much technology. Their immediate thought being that the scale of their business does not quantify the costs towards the investment in contemporary IT.
Increases flexibility
Cloud-based services are ideal for businesses with growing or fluctuating bandwidth demands. If your needs increase, it's easy to scale up your cloud capacity, drawing on the service's remote servers.
Back-up and disaster recovery is taken care of
Businesses of all sizes should be investing in robust disaster recovery, but for smaller businesses that lack the required capital, Cloud is now helping to buck that trend.
Automatic Software updates
Cloud computing servers are off-premise, out of sight and out of your space. Suppliers take care of them for you and roll out regular software updates so you don't have to worry about wasting time maintaining the system yourself.
No large capital expenditure required
The greatest of all the advantages possibly, Cloud computing does not require capital stagnating investments. Cloud computing in fact cuts out the high cost of hardware.
Better IT security
Cloud computing gives you greater security because your data is stored in the cloud and you can access it no matter what happens to your machine.