The benefits of cloud technology to your business

Managing your cloud migration

Cloud migration is replacing legacy, onpremise technology with a full cloud or hybrid cloud model and is absolutely essential for any business that is looking at a digital transformation strategy or roadmap.

As businesses, we cannot afford to work in an ineffective, slow infrastructure that doesn’t offer the agility required to rapidly scale with our objectives and our teams’ and customers’ changing demands.

There are countless benefits to a business in pursuing a cloud strategy, allowing you to better manage your digital infrastructure. We’ve collated the key benefits to consider as you explore this transformation. Scalability: One of the major benefits of the cloud is the infinite availability of space. Not only does this offer uncapped storage opportunities, but the nature of the cloud model is designed around scalability – meaning your resources and capacity can be scaled up or down in line with your demands. This removes the element of wastage in space, budget and resource required to manage the process. Cost-effectiveness: The sliding scale of resource required has a direct impact on your bottom line. By only paying for the resource you need as and when you need it, you can better control your budget. What’s more, the reduction or even elimination of your on-premise data centre, removes the associated costs of unnecessary assets and equipment and even the utility bills associated with keeping a data centre functioning – which is more important than ever in this financial climate. Security: Migrating to the cloud can offer increased security over on-premise when storing information and data centrally. Most cloud providers have security at their core and offer built-in security features to protect your business. Management & monitoring: With all your business data and applications stored centrally in the cloud, the flexibility of access increases, allowing your teams to access this information on any device, wherever they are. This offers the opportunity to grow your business on a global basis, improves collaboration of teams and removes the headaches associated with on-premise access.

As well as this, the cloud offers real-time monitoring to protect your business from downtime. Not only can you receive alerts when an issue arises – allowing you to act quickly – the functionalities are designed to pre-empt and prevent any issues. Empowering customers through user experience: Now more than ever, your customers demand a multi-channel user experience, delivered in the most simplistic form. Utilising cloud services allows you to build more responsive applications that use interconnected services to improve your user experience. Not only this, but the robust hardware and speed of network connections offered by this migration will substantially improve the overall experience for all users. Strategy is key Whilst the benefits speak for themselves, there are still hurdles that businesses need to overcome in this process. A bad migration strategy could, at best, slow your processes down. At worst, you risk irreversible data loss or opening your business up to security vulnerabilities.

These challenges can be avoided by working with the right cloud migration partner. Costs can be minimised by developing a comprehensive and realistic migration strategy and following that to the tee.

By utilising the expertise of a managed service provider, you will be able to eliminate compatibility issues and data security risks, thereby ensuring a successful migration. About Vizst Technology VIZST Technology is a privately owned technology partner, supporting SME, enterprises and public sector organisations with technologies and strategies to enable and improve business performance.

Its wealth of technologies and expertise solve real problems for its clients, keeping their customers and teams connected and their businesses secure through innovative technologies and proactive management.

It is a trusted technology partner and works as an extension of your IT teams to plug any knowledge, resource and skill gaps.

It consults, implements and supports, whilst remaining vendor agnostic, focusing on best fit technologies to meet its clients’ objectives. www.vizst.com

A trusted technology partner working as an extension of your IT teams to plug any knowledge, resource and skills gaps.