Cloud computing has come of age. It now marks the new age businesses and helps enterprises save costs, increase efficiency, and make things much easier than they way. For virtually every work type, business process, and business, there ought to be a solution out there in the cloud. The trouble is that not all businesses go there just because it exists. We know how that feels like. Here are a few reasons why you should be smart and take to the cloud:
Save Costs Like Never Before
Imagine having to put up an entire data center, buy server, set up infrastructure, rig up networks, and manage a huge IT workforce for anything related to your business – from document management to file sharing; from storage to application hosting; from email management to hosting intranet. These can tug hard at your expense sheet and plunge your profits. There just ought to be a smarter way to get these things done. That’s where the cloud comes in. Just like “there’s an app for that”, there’s “the cloud for everything far and between”.
In a Rackspace study, it’s found that at least 88% of businesses in the US and UK saved money. At least 62% of these businesses reinvest these savings back into the business. The study also revealed that about 56% of businesses increased their profits; 46% grew their businesses; and at least 60% of them now have more time and resources to focus on innovation and strategy.
Scale IT with your Business
IT infrastructure can be hard to scale -- apart from the sheer logistical and process nightmare that it really is, hauling networks from size 1 to size 3 is a phenomenally expensive affair – something that small and medium businesses cannot afford. Growing businesses have problems anyway and scaling up networks to match business growth is another problem businesses don’t want to shoulder. Moving to cloud services leaves the scaling problem to the vendors. Grow as big as you like or shrink in size if that works for your business – the cloud services will mirror your growth pattern and match your needs.
Custom Cloud
Now, just because there are tons of cloud-based solutions and SaaS applications available for your business, you might just need customization to make sure that your business syncs and aligns with these applications. The advantage of going with third-party vendors is that you have a dig at customizing your regular cloud applications. Of course, here we come with a shameless plug: our Cloud Services are pro-client. As a part of our IT consulting, creating custom applications along with deployment and set-up is an act of pride we’ve been doing for clients for a while now.
If you’d like our help to integrate cloud services to your business or to have us develop custom cloud solutions to match your specific needs, please don’t hesitate to call.
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