Moving to the cloud? Don’t let your internet be a bottleneck!

Moving your business to the cloud is a big step. It will revolutionize your businesses operations. From how and when your business can access

your critical applications, the works flows and productivity. Hosting applications centrally will increase accessibility and reduce costs of

ownership. By implementing this change correctly and efficiently your employees will thank you, your customers and clients will thank you, and

in turn so will business.

Computing has changed

Yes that’s right, the world of computing has changed. Gone are the days where every company had to rely on expensive servers (with their

associated high running costs).

"The cloud offers a platform for companies to work and store their data on. The massive adoption levels evidence just how effective it can be for

business." - Solid Start Property Inspections

As well as individual companies hosting applications and data in the cloud, your software suppliers are all moving to a Software as a Service

(SaaS) model. This has moved the costs to being Operational Expenditure (OpEx) as opposed to a Capital Expenditure (CapEx).

The benefits of the cloud

The reason that so many are adopting the cloud is because it offers many benefits. For example, having a software-based foundation instantly

instils better security. From an infrastructure perspective, hosting providers spend incredible amounts of time, money and effort on ensuring

they have the highest levels of security. As the guardians of information, it is down to them to keep it safe. An easy way to think about this is

that Google are going to have better security protocols than your business could ever wish for or afford.

Additionally, SaaS and hosting companies invest incredible amounts on their architecture to ensure the resilience and speed of the service. In

addition being SaaS means providers can ensure you are on the most recent version of software which massively increases the ability of

providers to roll out security and software patches. Doing all this centrally reduces the costs of hardware and system maintenance costs.

Your end of the bargain

Service providers do a very good job of ensuring that their services are at peak performance. To get the best form this, and maximise user

experience and subsequent performance, hardware and network connectivity are essential to get right.

Hardware

Slow and dated machines can cost 30 minutes of staff time a day, this equates to 15 days a year. As a business owner you can really see the

impact of this when multiplying by the wage bill! In addition to this, slow machines really annoy your workers during stressful periods.

Connection

This is even more important. Both upload and download speeds are factors when using the cloud. Therefore getting the right connection for

your business is crucial. Homeworkers are different from large offices as there is much less of a demand.

Ethernet must be a real consideration for businesses with 10-15 employees. This is because all those people could be requiring the connection to

the cloud at the same time. This number is then reduced in a more creative and thus more demanding environment, for example video

production.

Additionally, the ability to prioritise traffic is an incredible feature that is certain to help you get the biggest bang for your buck. Being able to

prioritise important traffic such as a video conference call or VOIP over YouTube allows you to have enhanced capabilities and experiences with

a lower bandwidth.

Similarly, backup is also reliant on connection.

"To use the cloud, connection is essential, and thus backup options are also essential." - QMAX Pumping Solutions

Diverse routing, sim enabled routers and mobile hotspots are all options that will provide you with that back up connection, in case your primary

connection was to fail.

Finally, it is noteworthy to state that cloud computing and the ever-growing reliance on network connectivity is future proof. You will need to

adapt with the times, but connectivity is certain. Data usage is only going to grow, and connectivity is only going to grow in accordance with the

needs of businesses and users.

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