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COLE/iStockphoto.com)  Virtual tools  An office when and where
you want it Add to ...  Remember when everyone with their own
business wanted to work from home? The benefits seemed endless -
making calls in your pyjamas, meeting clients at Starbucks, free
coffee in your own kitchen. The setup had its pluses and plenty
of converts. But there were drawbacks.  Downsides included
working in your pyjamas and meeting clients at Starbucks. In
other words, isolation and a loss of professionalism and
structure.  But technology usually catches up to problems, and
in March, 2009, Toronto entrepreneur Gratuz Devanesan jumped on
a trend he sensed was about to take off - the virtual office, or
as he likes to call it, "the office cloud."  Mr. Devanesan, who
had previous experience working out of his own apartment, knew
the drawbacks first-hand. And he was encountering people with
small, startup businesses who w