Author: DS Sarah Nguyen
Cloud computing offers your business many benefits. It allows you to set up what is essentially a virtual office to give you the flexibility of connecting to your business anywhere, at any time. Here are 7 benefits of moving your business to the Cloud:
1. Reduce IT costs
Moving to cloud computing may reduce the cost of managing and maintaining your IT systems. Rather than purchasing expensive systems and equipment for your business, you can reduce your costs by using the resources of your cloud computing service provider. You may be able to reduce your operating costs because:
- The cost of system upgrades, new hardware, and software may be included in your contract
- You no longer need to pay wages for expert staff
- Your energy consumption costs may be reduced
- There are fewer time delays.
- Using the cloud frees up your time so you can get on with running your business.
2. Flexible scalability
Your business can scale up or scale down your operation and storage needs quickly to suit your situation, allowing flexibility as your needs change.
There may be times your business unexpectedly makes a sudden breakthrough, goes through an enormous growth period, or simply needs to upscale its storage space to get ahead of future demand. A significant benefit of moving applications to Cloud computing is that if and when that happens, you can scale with agility, without significant hardware investment.
With Cloud solutions, you also tend to pay for what you need. As those needs change over time, your hosting company will be flexible enough to meet them.
3. Business continuity
Protecting your data and systems is an important part of business continuity planning. Whether you experience a natural disaster, power failure, or other crisis, having your data stored in the cloud ensures it is backed up and protected in a secure and safe location. Being able to access your data again quickly allows you to conduct business as usual, minimizing any downtime and loss of productivity.
4. Efficient collaboration
Collaboration in a cloud environment gives your business the ability to communicate and share more easily outside of the traditional methods. If you are working on a project across different locations, you could use cloud computing to give employees, contractors and third parties access to the same files. You could also choose a cloud computing model that makes it easy for you to share your records with your advisers (e.g. a quick and secure way to share accounting records with your accountant or financial adviser).
5. The flexibility of work practices
Cloud computing allows employees to be more flexible in their work practices. For example, you can access data from home, on holiday, or via the commute to and from work (providing you have an internet connection). If you need access to your data while you are off-site, you can connect to your virtual office, quickly and easily.
During the onset of COVID-19, Cloud-powered companies were best placed to adapt to government-enforced home-working. With that now proven to be a viable working process, employees are sure to request more flexibility from their bosses than ever before. Hybrid and remote work is predicted to become a norm for knowledge workers in the future. Migrating to the Cloud, then, might be a necessity when it comes to retaining and attracting the best people.
6. Access to automatic updates
Access to automatic updates for your IT requirements may be included in your service fee. Depending on your cloud computing service provider, your system will regularly be updated with the latest technology. This could include up-to-date versions of software, as well as upgrades to servers and computer processing power.
7. High security
Any data backed up in the Cloud is encrypted – which means only the people you want to see it will be able to. Cloud hosting providers also constantly monitor and update their security features, which means your data is as secure as possible – all without your IT team needing to lift a finger.
As long as device access is kept to your employees, using the Cloud is the safest way to operate a business from a data security perspective.
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Huong Nguyen (Sarah)
Digital Specialist
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