Cloud Services enhance your business and Clarity is one awesome cloud service provider!
By Bruce G. Kreeger, President / CTO
Businesses should make technology decisions with an eye on growth. An efficient technology being used more extensively is cloud computing. There are substantial benefits that an organization can see by utilizing the cloud. Let’s address these benefits and explain how cloud computing works to facilitate business growth.
Flexibility and Scalability
The first major benefit that a company can see from implementing a cloud platform is that it enhances organizational flexibility. A move to the cloud can help your business function the way it does best. In using a cloud platform, there won’t be restrictions on where or when your staff can access applications and data, this a major benefit that will allow you and your users secure access to the platforms and information they need when they need them.
Cloud platforms also will not waste your capital. This gives a business the chance to pay for the computing that it needs at the time. As your needs grow, you can add more. If you need to scale back after a big project, you can do that as well. This allows for strategic expenditures and for cost mitigation when needed.
Cost Savings
As to the subject of cost, the cloud provides a whole different view of IT. Depending on how you implement it, this can be extraordinarily less expensive than hosting your own applications and data. The main cost savings come from not having to buy tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of hardware to run the applications that your business relies on. That benefit, coupled with the anytime, anywhere access cloud services give your staff, makes cloud-hosted infrastructure a good decision if you are looking to save some capital.
Security
In the past, cloud platforms have been maligned as being insecure. Since most cloud platforms are maintained by IT professionals, you can rest assured that your applications and data stored in the cloud isn’t low-hanging fruit. These systems are professionally managed and protected against data loss, hardware corruption, ransomware, and many more threats. They may not be guarded by a moat filled with crocodiles, but cloud vendors know that keeping their clients’ data secure is a paramount consideration if they want to remain in business.
Productivity and Efficiency
The best parts of the cloud are the many ways in which your organization can use it. There are options for server hosting, redundancy, application deployment, storage, collaboration, you name it. Cloud-hosted IT is, in its nature, more shareable, more accessible, and those variables fuel better collaboration, better productivity, and an efficiency that can be seen on the bottom line.
Clarity Technologies Group, LLC is a proud Microsoft Cloud Service provider and we specialize in Office 365 and Microsoft 365. Call Clarity at 800-354-4160 today for more information on how to learn more about our cloud services.
