The fear of imminent failure of network; the constant need to monitor, handle, back-up, recover and store data; and the criticality of building redundancy into your networks has always put a tremendous amount of pressure on IT for businesses. Cloud-based services come in as a fresh wave of alternatives to budget-strapped small and medium enterprises and even large companies looking to cut costs. Here are different ways cloud computing gives a helping hand for businesses:
Push those servers on the cloud
Our last post on Virtual Networking had us talking about how you can ditch your hardware servers maintained in-house to a completely cloud-based solution so that disaster is kept at more than an arm’s length. This also provides with network redundancy, lower costs, easier management options, allow you to run mirrored sites, get away from the hard work of having to manage servers on your own.
Data Management
With time and the growing size of companies, the need to store business critical data grows proportionally. If you had to monitor and store all the data by yourself for your company, the demand this chore makes on your IT is tremendous. A better idea is to have an IT consulting vendor do all the work for you. If that’s not an option, cloud computing has many DIY services – software-as-a-service – that you could use.
Data storage and back-up
When you are busy running your business, it becomes more than tedious to store and back-up data on a continuous basis. When you don’t back-up and store periodically, any business is susceptible to a risk of losing data that’s critical for the business to function. Cloud-computing services automate this process of storing and backing-up data.
Applications
Sometimes, using some applications for your business could just get a little heavy on your servers in particular and the network overall. Alternatively, you could run on cloud-based servers or perhaps use vendor-hosted applications giving you plenty of room in terms of computing power, IT resources, and man power. Computers fail, servers collapse and networks can crash; you don’t want your business-critical applications to go down with your crashed network, would you?
It’s not that cloud computing services come without problems; in fact, plenty of problems exists but not without workarounds and alternatives.
Are you paying attention to the cloud computing promise?
714-333-9620