BENEFITS OF CLOUD COMPUTING

At 8-Bit Technologies we believe that cloud computing is the way forward for businesses, including small to medium sized businesses. To help you formulate your business case for the cloud, we’ve outlined five key benefits of cloud technology for your organisation.

1. Scaling infrastructure – pay for what you need on a monthly basis and scale up during peak periods. All this without the upfront investment in your own hardware equipment as well as significantly reducing the responsibilities of IT professionals in it’s management, freeing up money, time and resources for big picture projects such as data analysis.
2. Cloud-based office systems – more and more businesses exploring collaborative work environments. Cloud-based office platforms such as Google’s G Suite and Microsoft Office 365 provide better support for group-based projects than traditional programs by allowing multiple users to work simultaneously, with all changes reflected in real-time across an unlimited number of devices. 
3. Remote workspaces – Cloud-based office systems also drive location-independent office environments. The ability to collaborate over cloud services allows employees the flexibility and support to work remotely or to continue projects while away on conferences, on the road or at home minding the children. 
4. Big data analytics – Cloud computing gives businesses the processing power necessary to organize and crunch though large quantities of data. Instead of investing in hardware, servers and storage – businesses are shifting their focus to user-friendly data analytics interfaces provided by cloud-based services instead. 
5. Backups and recovery – information security continues to be a major hurdle for small businesses. Threats evolve quickly, and a complete defense of critical infrastructure is often beyond the capabilities of a small IT workforce let alone the dual office accountant/part-time IT ‘fixer’. Cloud-based data storage helps address security concerns by building redundancy into a company’s information management approach. Hybrid systems that back up local data to the cloud in real time offer protection against security breaches, allowing companies to reduce their reliance on physical infrastructure and tedious manual backups.

As demonstrated by some of the benefits outlined above, cloud technology has the potential not just to improve information storage and security, but also the way we work with each other and the accuracy with which we make business decisions.

Talk to 8-Bit Technologies about your cloud computing plans and let us work together to make that transition a reality.