With its message of flexible provisioning and a ‘pay only for what you use’ cost model, cloud solutions are perfectly suited to the needs of small business. With few companies truly ‘cloud native’ however, any move to the cloud is first going to involve some form of hybrid arrangement.
As a result, the first task for many is identifying what to move to the cloud, and those systems and data sources that should be kept local. The second is to identify and utilize the best products on offer, based on sound TCO and ROI calculations.
What helps throughout is an experienced voice to help you avoid any business disruption, while also ensuring the most cost-effective decisions are being made. Options will always exist, but the first priority will always be ensuring (and securing) ‘business as usual’.
Once you’ve made the decision to move to the cloud, and once all the numbers stack up, we can step in to:
Throughout all this activity our goal will be to formulate a hybrid arrangement able to take advantage of the performance, scale and resilience that cloud computing environment offers - without exposing mission-critical applications and data to security risks.