Moving a business to Cloud means a lot more than leaving behind the hassles of traditional and on-premise resources. When executed properly, there are several tangible and pervasive benefits to this transition. The major benefits are as follows:

 

1. Major Cut Down on IT infrastructure, Staff and Downtime Cost - For traditional IT business models, the major source of expenditure is the installation, configuration, and maintenance of on-premise servers. Cloud provider’s pay-per-use feature cancels out the expenses of data centre capital and operations and gives you the freedom to focus on the core business. Consequently, move to cloud usually correlates with a direct increase in productivity and revenue.

2. Elasticity & Flexibility of Operations - In a traditional IT business model, you are required to predict the computing resources required for the next few years. When you underestimate the requirement, it will directly impact your computing power and consequently, bring down the customer experience. On the other hand, If you overestimate your requirements, you end up spending money on superfluous resources. But Cloud’s utility-based metering system gives your business the elasticity to align your infrastructure requirements as per demand.

3. Scalability of On-demand Resources - Cloud instances allow you to scale up or down your computing resources to your business requirements and application and services demands. If your business experiences a sudden surge in demand, the auto-scaling will deploy new resources. Similarly, if there is a drop in demand, auto-scaling will remove the superfluous resources.

4. Ease Of Access And Operation - In a Cloud model, the IT infrastructure does not require any physical upgrades. Organisations have unlimited access to computing power and can make changes and upgrades on-the-fly – meaning you have the speed and agility to develop and launch application much faster.

    

   Moreover, leading cloud provider like AWS & Microsoft Azure have multiple data centres around the world so you can access your information anytime from anywhere. This feature can be advantageous in replicating business models to set up core business in a new geographical location or to form a disaster recovery program.

5. High-end Security - Cloud provider and compliance work on a shared responsibility model. To put it simply, cloud provider like AWS is responsible for the infrastructure that is being offered on the Cloud and the customer is responsible for the management and security configuration of the guest operating systems and applications. So, it’s double-layered protection where the first layer of security (by AWS) adheres to global governance and compliance and the second layer security architecture can be customised completely based on the business requirement.

 

Migration to Cloud provider is a sure-fire way to:

• Work faster,

• Reduce downtime,

• Achieve higher productivity,

• Increase product and/or service offerings,

• Ensure customer satisfaction

 

Cloud Migration: Going it alone, or seek help from Cloud experts?

 

We believe in most cases seeking help from a trusted expert is a wise choice. And that is not just a shameless sales pitch, we truly mean it. Our approach to a customer migration project is not to sell a specific product or service – it is to provide a tailored approach to help the customer understand their specific requirements and needs.

 

Contact us for a FREE Consultation with our certified cloud migration experts at sales@unifybcs.com