If you’re still on the fence about moving to the cloud, here are 10 essential benefits of cloud services you can’t afford to ignore.
1. Lower Upfront Investment
Optimize Capital Expenditures: Transition from substantial upfront investments to a flexible, subscription-based model. Pay only for the resources you need, when you need them, enhancing your financial agility.
You don’t have to make a substantial upfront investment to use cloud services. Since most of them are subscription-based, you only pay for the features and capacities you need when you need them. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on perpetual licenses upfront or purchase new hardware to support on-premises solutions.
When you use our infrastructure-as-a-service solution, you only spend money on the computing capacity and data storage you consumed—turning CapEx into OpEx to improve your financial health and agility.
2. Reduce Maintenance Costs
Streamline IT Operations: Eliminate the burden of ongoing maintenance, updates, and patches. Free up your IT team to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business growth.
Your cloud services provider will take care of updates, patches, and maintenance, so you don’t need to hire or maintain a large IT team for these ongoing tasks. Plus, you’ll have access to the latest features to stay current with market demands. You can lower your IT overhead and streamline operations without compromising performance and security.
Our infrastructure-as-a-service solution handles all the day-to-day maintenance tasks so you can focus your IT resources on growth and strategic initiatives.
3. Increase Flexibility
Achieve Unprecedented Agility: Respond rapidly to changing business needs with scalable managed cloud solutions like Desktop-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
Cloud services, such as desktop-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, backup-as-a-service, and recovery-as-a-service, allows you to meet your business and IT needs whenever they arise. You don’t have to go through a lengthy and costly process to upgrade your IT infrastructure. You can improve operational efficiency quickly and access the right capabilities to meet fast-changing market demands.
Scale Effortlessly: Adapt to fluctuations in demand or capitalize on growth opportunities by quickly scaling your cloud resources up or down.
With cloud computing, you can quickly ramp up your services, increasing capacity, and adding users to support a surge in demand or business growth. For example, our desktop-as-a-service solution allows you to remove or add users in minutes to adjust for seasonality, respond to fluctuations in business trends, or deploy apps quickly to meet business requirements on demand.
4. Shorten Time to Value
Accelerate Time-to-Market: Launch new projects, test innovative ideas, and deploy applications faster than ever before, without the constraints of traditional infrastructure procurement.
You can spin up new cloud computing instances in seconds to test new ideas and design application architecture without the constraints of on-site hardware limitations and slow procurement processes. Cloud services can help you reduce deployment time and improve agility while shortening the time to market to gain market shares, stay ahead of your competitors, and realize your ROI faster.
5. Improve Data Security
Fortify Data Security: Leverage the expertise of dedicated security teams and advanced threat protection measures to safeguard your critical data assets.
It’s challenging for most IT departments with limited resources to keep up with fast-evolving cybersecurity best practices. Reputable cloud services providers have dedicated security teams to monitor their infrastructures and implement security patches to protect your data from the latest cyber threats. In fact, 94% of businesses saw an improvement in security after switching to the cloud.
Our security-as-a-service solution allows you to take advantage of the latest security products to reduce the costs, risks, and complexity of implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity solution for your IT infrastructure.
6. Ensure Regulatory Compliance
Simplify Regulatory Compliance: Navigate complex data privacy laws and security frameworks with confidence, knowing that your cloud provider is committed to maintaining compliance.
It’s more challenging than ever for businesses to navigate a labyrinth of data privacy laws (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS) and data security frameworks (e.g., NIST 800, SOC 2.) Cloud service providers have dedicated experts to ensure that their infrastructures and processes are compliant with specific regulations. 91% of businesses said that the cloud has made it easier to meet government compliance requirements.
Our infrastructure-as-a-service solution integrates firewalls, encryption, access control, and disaster recovery capabilities into the infrastructure to help you streamline your compliance effort without added costs.
7. Support Mobility and Remote Work
Empower a Mobile Workforce: Enable seamless collaboration and productivity for your remote and distributed teams, regardless of their location or device.
With remote and hybrid work becoming the norm, companies must allow employees to access corporate data and applications from anywhere using any device—whether they’re working from home, on the go, or in the field. Cloud services enable end-users to update files and access information in real-time so everyone can stay in the loop and make accurate decisions, ensuring seamless collaboration among remote and distributed teams.
8. Increase Productivity
Boost Workforce Productivity: Equip your employees with the latest productivity tools and a dedicated help desk, maximizing their effectiveness and minimizing downtime.
Cloud-based applications offer the latest productivity tools to help your employees become more effective and efficient at their job. For example, our managed services for Microsoft 365 help you build your perfect Microsoft environment with the right productivity tools to meet your needs. We also offer a dedicated end-user help desk and monitoring at a predictable monthly cost, so you don’t have to worry about hiring internal resources for support.
Unify Communications: Enhance communication and collaboration across your organization, improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Secure cloud platforms allow employees, vendors, partners, and customers to share information and communicate seamlessly synchronously and asynchronously and in different formats, such as audio calls, video conferencing, screen sharing, file sharing, and more. You can increase operational cost-efficiency, improve business processes, and enhance customer service by managing your communications from a central location.
9. Ensure Business Continuity
Mitigate Business Disruptions: Protect your operations and revenue streams with robust cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Building business resiliency is key to minimizing costly downtime that could impact productivity, revenue, and brand reputation. When you use a cloud-based backup service, you can rest assured that your data is available anywhere and anytime while being protected against human errors, malicious acts, power outages, hardware theft or damages, etc.
Additionally, our disaster recovery-as-a-service solution helps you identify and protect both cloud and on-premises production environments to keep your productivity and revenue flowing.
10. Gain a Competitive Edge
Outpace the Competition: Access cutting-edge technologies, reduce costs, and enhance customer experiences to outperform your competitors.
Cloud services allow you to access the latest technologies and software features quickly and affordably to meet customer expectations, keep current with market demands, and stay relevant. Meanwhile, you can take advantage of the cost-cutting benefits to boost your bottom line. In fact, 77% of businesses say cloud technology gives them a competitive edge, with 16% believing that the advantage is significant.
