The Cloud is here to stay, but are you really making the most out of it?
Oxford Economics released a survey report says that Small and Medium Business Enterprises place cloud computing behind business analytics and social presence in their priority list.
This might be because of their lack of awareness regarding the benefits of cloud computing. Cloud computing saves you money and a recent Rackspace survey simply confirms it with nearly 88 per cent of surveyed IT big heads vouching on cloud computing for its ability to reduce operational costs and improving profit margins.
But is it only about the cost? No, it isn’t.
Besides keeping your business bank balance on the safer side, cloud computing does help to improve your businesses bottom line. Here are a few benefits you get in addition to monetary benefits you are entitled to while relying on the cloud for your business:
Collaboration Like You Have Never Seen Before
With cloud computing, you get a work culture in which anyone can work from anywhere. Becoming a global organization is so simple as you only need an Internet device. Remote work portability allows employees to access office tasks and their respective workloads from anywhere on the planet. Besides a global collaborative effort can easily be scheduled on the cloud for a demanding work project.
Microsoft recently announced in one of their surveys that nearly 60 percent of surveyed SMB’s believed that productivity improves with portability.
Provides Flexibility To Your Business Infrastructure
When your business grows, the cloud grows with it. Call it an elastic partner, if you will. Cloud computing ensures that when your business needs to get its hand on bigger tools and resources, it is there up and ready for use. Your businesses outreach and needs might be unpredictable, but with a cloud based operational environment, you will be ready to take up the challenge.
The North Bridge Future of Cloud Computing survey pointed out that scalability is the reason nearly 57 percent of their survey respondents admitted to be the primary reason for cloud adaptation in their respective businesses.
Your Data Stays With You Safe And Secure
If you prefer to have all of your business data as well as management tools in an in-house server or data center, then when there is an emergency or a disaster, recovery and backup of these resources obviously becomes your key agenda.
But your business needs to run in these circumstances as well. Managing your time and effort between your disaster recovery operations and your day to day business operations can become quite a Herculean task. On the other hand, if your data is on the cloud, then you can be assured that your businesses continuity is in no way affected by a threat of disaster. Your data stays safe in the cloud and restoring your businesses data from the cloud takes virtually no time at all.
This is probably the reason why Microsoft stated in its survey results that nearly 94 percent of surveyed businesses reported improved security benefits in their business after moving to the cloud.
Better Resource Management
With cloud computing, be it your infrastructure or software resources or anything which you lend from the cloud, you only use what you need. It is more of like a subscription service and hence wastage of resources is minimal or nil for that matter.
Cloud Computing is not just a shortcut to profits but it is a true path to getting your business to perform above expectations, utilize resources meaningfully and above all streamlining your businesses bottom line.
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