The Advantages Of Cloud Computing For Your Business

How Advantages Of Cloud Computing Can Benefit Your Business

• Cloud Computing Can Be Cost-Effective When Implemented Correctly.

Using The Cloud as an IT solution, your business would no longer have the exorbitant costs associated to both employing numerous expensive qualified IT staff for maintaining local servers, and the cost to self host and maintain your IT Network infrastructure.

You would now pay a monthly fee to access all your information hosted on the Internet in The Cloud. The benefit of cloud computing (read 4 reasons to move to the cloud here) is that you only pay for the services you use which reduces your operating costs.

• Cloud Computing Is Scalable

Having a Cloud Computing Solution in place has allowed businesses to have the flexibility to calculate how to save and allocate costs to scale up or down depending on the amount employees they have.

If companies employ more staff, they would scale up the amount of users that access your Cloud Infrastructure. You can project plan and schedule the moving of your internal systems and processes over time as cloud computing offers a scalable transition. Many business owners postpone moving to a cloud based solution because of the sheer amount of work they believe it will take. At Westech have a process in place to ensure a smooth transition.

Two of the more popular cloud based solutions are Microsoft Office 365 and Amazon Webservices. For more information on how to move to the cloud or how to Make the Digital Shift, please contact Westech to customise a solution for your business.

• Cloud Computing Is Secure

Cloud computings’ cutting-edge cloud encryption offers more security than you enjoyed with the standard in-house IT systems so from a security perspective it’s a no-brainer to move to The Cloud.

• Cloud Computing Is Easy To Use

Cloud based more often than not allow you to use the applications you were use to before but will now ensure they are available no matter where you work from, you can work remotely without a fuss.

• Cut Staff Costs

You don’t have to retrain your expensive staff. If you were to downscale the number of staff and computers they use, you would scale down your IT equipment, IT staff costs, desk space, office space costs and more.

• Enjoy Heightened Productivity and Flexibility 

With the cloud you will enjoy faster access to information, easy access and 24/7 availability, remotely, with Cloud Computing.

What is cloud computing?

You will be able to manage your data through a “virtual machine” that accesses all the different servers across the “cloud”. The hosting server only exists in a virtual environment – hence the name “cloud”. Simplified, what this means is that your IT Services are hosted in a Data Center hosted across the world, safe and secure from hackers, theft or damage.

How To Get Started

To get started we will perform an Infrastructure Audit / Site Review and discuss which of our IT SLA Maintenance Agreements can help you reduce your IT overheads and help move you to the Cloud.