It remains clear that the cloud is the future of computing, but explanations as to why this is the case can get murky for some. When deciding whether or not a move to the cloud might be the best option for your business, we recommend to consider these top five reasons to migrate to cloud computing.
1. Cost Savings
We’ve all heard it; “Time is Money!” It takes time, people, and equipment to manage an entire network, ensure proper storage systems, and maintain everything that goes along with them. IT professionals alone can be expensive, let alone storage and network set-up, and thanks to CSP’s (cloud service providers) all of these issues are resolved in one organized package.
2. Scalability
One of the most inciting reasons to move to cloud management is that you only pay for what resources you consume, in real time! If you want 5.7 GB of storage, not 5.6 GB or 5.8 GB, CSP’s can provide that cloud scalability for near any project you can think of. This is an ideal situation for a company in transition; If you know it makes sense for your company to be utilizing affordable cloud services but are in a growth period and unsure of what resources will be needed, you can always start off small and scale up or down in real-time as necessary.
3. Integration
Integration is a no-brainer when it comes to streamlining any business. All companies can and should take advantage of specialized services that seamlessly integrate everything from VoIP, HR, Marketing, Accounting, and distributed Storage. Almost every single aspect of business can be fully-integrated, thus giving business owners more time, resources, and flexibility to focus on what really matters.
4. Security
Disasters are inevitable, otherwise everyone would offer a 100% uptime SLAs. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. That being the case, what went wrong shouldn’t be as big of an issue as how it should be resolved. With cloud hosted data, disaster recovery and backups are streamlined so that full redundancy and fault tolerance can be achieved at all times. Cloud service companies commonly utilize top-of-the-line technology in conjunction with 24/7/365 guarded data centers and collocations so that customer data is always secure and highly available.
5. Flexibility
While scalability would typically fall under the flexibility umbrella, it’s not the only only thing that makes cloud computing wildly flexible. For one, working with cloud technologies allows employees to work from almost anywhere- from the office, from home, from a Hawaiian beach- so everyone is able to stay productive and remain on the same page. Keeping data and projects in the cloud also allows workers to collaborate more seamlessly on projects without missing a beat. Cloud-based workflow allows colleagues to make updates in real time from physically (or virtually) anywhere, and gives all team members greater transparency so that action can be taken more quickly.
