How Cloud Technology Can Reduce Business Risks

Reducing business risks is one way a company can lower its costs and increase its productivity and profitability. One solution includes migrating IT services to the Cloud, which will eliminate IT downtime and the negative impact that such outages have on a company’s bottom line.

Protect Company Data

The Cloud’s ability to practically eradicate unexpected hardware failures, which cause IT downtime, means that employees are not left unproductive during these disruptions. The Cloud also protects company data, which is often a highly sensitive and confidential company asset. It does this by replicating the data off-site and restoring it during critical times, thereby allowing business operations to continue running, albeit remotely.

In addition to securing company data, the Cloud also protects a company from the accidental loss of files and data corruption.

Maintain Productivity

Software as a Service (SaaS) utilises software licensing and is hosted from a Cloud location that delivers everything from email and accounting packages to customer service software. During an outage, the Cloud assists by continually providing access to all SaaS functionality to ensure that employee productivity and client service delivery is maintained.

Less Reliance On External Suppliers

The Cloud removes the dependence of a company on its external suppliers for some of its IT services. This ability further reduces the risk on business operations by minimising the number of people who have direct contact with sensitive company information and avoids the inconvenience of an IT staff shortage due to off-time.

Save Costs On Staff And Training

By opting for a fully-managed Cloud service, a company avoids having to operate an entire internal IT department, resulting in a significant saving on staff and training costs.

Effective Disaster Recovery

In the event of a substantial outage caused by fire, flood or similar, recovery time is minimised because disaster recovery is built into the Cloud, securing critical data, operations and employee productivity.

It is vital for companies to implement a Disaster Recovery Plan, which enables them to quickly restore their data and systems to their most recent state before the disaster event occurred.

Improve Resource Scalability

Using the Cloud allows companies to quickly and easily scale their software and hardware needs according to the prevailing business conditions. This scalability allows for efficient use of cash flow by minimising unnecessary expenditure when resources are no longer required.

Cloud technology certainly does not provide a “one-size-fits-all” solution. It needs to be designed around a company’s specific business needs and requires a thorough initial IT assessment.

Westech assists its clients to protect their IT processes and data cost-effectively. By conducting a thorough IT needs-assessment analysis, Westech has helped companies to:

• reduce redundancy;
• improve IT security;
• maintain all the latest software, anti-virus, anti-ransomware and anti-malware updates; and
• ensure that sufficient backup and recovery plans are in place in case of a disaster.

If you are unsure whether your business is adequately prepared and protected, contact Westech for their professional expertise and insight.