Information Services Paradigm for Small and Medium Enterprises Based on Cloud Computing

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have played a vital role in technology innovation and development of national economy throughout the world. To be competitive and to react faster to the market demands, SMEs need new information processing techniques to analyze the increasing amount of produced data, and innovative solutions in order to manage the computational resources with better flexibility, scalability, efficiency and smaller costs. The emergence of Cloud Computing represents a valuable answer to these requirements to be satisfied with these information services. Combining the architecture, characteristics of Cloud Computing with the actual needs of the SMEs, this paper proposes the architecture, utilities and major challenges of information service paradigm for SMEs using Cloud Computing. This information service paradigm always responds to the SMEs typical requirements: quality of service, high-availability.