What are the benefits of Cloud Connect?
Today, businesses of all sizes and sectors are making the most of cloud technology. They’re increasingly relying on it for their day-to-day operations, as well as using it to explore innovative solutions for tomorrow. Yet some are still nervous about putting critical applications in the cloud. But what if you could use cloud services with greater confidence?
Here are five great reasons why you should embrace Cloud Connect today:
It’s safe and secure
By having a direct connection to your CSP, you can mitigate the risk of using the public Internet. This means that the cloud becomes just as reliable as any on-premise hardware – if not more. Cloud Connect gives any business the ability to use cloud services with confidence. Even better, the secure, private connectivity the service offers means you don’t have to share your connection – or your bandwidth – with anyone else.
Cloud Connect offers businesses a private and direct virtual connection, to your chosen Cloud Service Provider (CSP).
It’s reliable
Businesses need predictability. Especially as the world we all work in changes, and markets become more competitive.
It’s financially predictable
There’s already enough pressure on IT budgets, without unpredictable billing. Because Cloud Connect runs on an economical, quarterly-billed OPEX model, you will always know what your spend is and be able to plan for it – ensuring that unexpected costs don’t derail other IT plans.
It’s flexible
By moving your processes and applications to the cloud, you can consume them as a service on a subscription model. This means that you only use what you need, adding or removing capabilities at a moment's notice. Similarly, with Cloud Connect, there is a choice of bandwidth options that can scale up and down to meet your requirements.
It makes it easier (and safer) to collaborate
By moving documents from a hard drive on to a cloud storage platform like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, work can be accessed anywhere, on any device and at any time by those permitted. This makes it easier for nationally or globally diverse teams to work together and share ideas efficiently, helping businesses achieve a much sought-after agile working and collaborative culture. As well as improving productivity and security, with a private and direct connection to your CSP so there’s little chance of your employees compromising sensitive data or documentation.
Security benefits of cloud computing
As well as reducing the risks of using the public internet by connecting through your CSP, there are various other security benefits associated with cloud computing:
- No single security vulnerability can compromise your business
- Protection against distributed denial of service attacks, blocking of large amounts of traffic aimed at your servers
- Data security: your provider will have measures in place to protect your data
- Risk detection, with your provider constantly monitoring potential threats
- Readily available support in the event of a security breach
If the worst should happen and a security threat gets through every layer of protection offered by cloud computing, you will have duplicated business-critical components and data ready to go. Components such as your website and apps will remain online, no matter what.
Benefits of cloud computing for large business
Large businesses arguably have more to gain from the flexibility provided by cloud computing. With more employees, they are more likely to have more people working remotely, particularly as hybrid working or full-on remote working becomes the norm. Employees around the globe can easily collaborate using cloud-based software.
Larger companies also have much to gain from the flexibility to change storage plans. If you’re expanding, you can upgrade your capacity, and if you’re downsizing, you can reduce it to save money.
As companies expand, they become more of a target for hackers and others with similar intentions. Consequently, the security benefits of cloud computing, which offer a high degree of protection, are even more applicable to larger businesses.
Benefits of cloud computing for small business
Small businesses, of course, have more room to grow than large organisations. So if your business is doing well, cloud computing offers a simple way to scale up your bandwidth and data demands.
The security benefits of cloud computing are especially pertinent for small businesses. With your IT security handled externally by your cloud service provider, you won’t need to pay out for sophisticated security measures – or data recovery protocols or data governance systems. The same goes for software updates, the costs of which are passed on to your provider.
For smaller companies, using cloud computing gives you access to benefits only usually enjoyed by much larger companies.
