Arrest the Rise in IT Spending with Cloud Solutions
By Aiyana Reyes · · 4 min read
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Arrest the Rise in IT Spending with Cloud Solutions
In an age of tight budgets many businesses, whether small or large, are looking for new efficient ways to reduce costs. The ROI from IT continues to decrease as IT costs increase. The servers are difficult to manage and often very costly. However, hosting technologies are changing and more companies are looking the possibility of cloud hosting.
Choosing a cloud platform is one of the most intelligent decisions an organization can make.
Cloud computing has changed the way for SMEs by offering access to a range of capabilities that typically only big organizations can afford. All you need is an Internet connection and a web browser. A company can add software and services as they need them and pay for what they use on a monthly basis, similar to utility services. Applications can be run on the Cloud without worry.
Cloud is best known for being simple and cheaply scalable whereas traditional hosting requires investing a huge amount of time and is a very complex process. Cloud hosting vendors provide virtual space on an on-demand basis; a company can use and pay for only what is needed. Instead of paying for a set amount of space upfront for a single server the user pays only for what is being used.
Cloud hosting companies provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). They house, run, and maintain all of the required hardware and the customer will have to pay only for the resources they use.
IT departments don’t need to invest in in-house server hardware. Also, customers don’t need to pay up front for extra storage or processing capacity that they don’t use. If an application or website receives more or less traffic, the cloud servers adjust automatically to scale up or down. With cloud hosting, there’s no need to manually add or remove server space as there is in shared hosting.
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Save Money
With cloud hosting you can avoid high investments while only paying for what you use. Cloud-based services can help you save money on many fronts, including investment in a server and its maintenance, power bills and cooling costs, and software licensing and upgrade fees. With cloud hosting the company gains access to these resources without having to pay for new servers and maintenance fees for ones they are not using.
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Manage Growth
Cloud resources are scalable so you can increase capacity to support growth and handle peak hours. One of the most challenging aspects of running a small company is predicting what resources your business will need; adding enough to effectively scale and take advantage of opportunities while preventing the resources from going to waste. To do this a company must invest their time for forecasting and planning. With cloud, rather than predicting your needs, you can respond to needs as they arise and use just as much as required to manage your growth so that your productivity is enhanced. -
Secured Data
Normally disaster management is handled by keeping the servers at different places as a contingency plan and repeatedly duplicating it and updating it; increasing the cost of the infrastructure. However, the cloud is smart enough to retrieve the latest versions of your data in case of disaster. Cloud-based services provide frequent and automatic back up of data to a safe online location so that in the case of an emergency failure you can be up and running within minutes.
Also, cloud supports encryption of data that is then transmitted and stored in the cloud. -
Flexible
Cloud hosting is flexible. When traffic at your website increases or there are changes in the content and usage users can add CPU, disc space, and other resources easily as needed. -
Reliable
With cloud hosting, the load is balanced across a group of servers. The data and applications contained on those servers are replicated across the whole group so that if an individual server goes down there is no information loss or downtime. Because of this redundancy, cloud hosting is much more elastic and resilient. Manage Resources Easily -
Conclusion
Cloud hosting is still a new technology and those who have experience with traditional hosting are hesitant to move to something different. Traditional hosting provides the users with an expedient and low-entry hosting solution. If you are growing and are looking for a low-cost, flexible, and easily scalable hosting solution, cloud is the best option.
Cloud hosting can provide some awesome benefits, but it is also really important to understand the bigger picture including the costs of a traditional system versus those of a cloud hosted system.
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