The core advantage of the cloud is that the points of failure are reduced. However, the key ingredient is always the human element. Will teams be prevented from reaching their normal place of work? Can the teams work from other locations, such as home or a disaster recovery site? How will ‘normal’communication be impacted by the change in locations?

Jason Carolan from Flexential adds that it is important to have a recovery plan. "Many cloud providers may publish above average up times or availability numbers, but there are always related issues that may require a DR scenario - e.g. a bad code deployment, a natural disaster, ransomware attack, etc. that may render a single cloud instance un-usable. Even some clouds may require independent backup technology to help protect the data. It is a best practice to understand these scenarios and make sure that you have appropriately protected data and the services you provide based on your business risks."

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.
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).

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