The Cost Effectiveness of Cloud Services

 

Of all the evolving technologies relating to business IT infrastructures, it is fair to say that cloud services are hogging the limelight. Their promise of improved accessibility, enhanced flexibility and more streamlined work processes has compelled many businesses to adopt and embrace cloud computing and storage.

There are of course many good reasons for using cloud services. However, given the economic downturn, the sheer cost effectiveness of cloud computing and storage is perhaps the reason so many businesses are turning to it for their IT needs.

How does the use of cloud services reduce overall operation costs? Because the cloud platform and the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) exists in a virtual online space provided, maintained and upgraded by the service provider, the usual hardware expansion, maintenance, repair and upgrade costs resulting from the traditional business IT infrastructure using an in-house server are removed.

Likewise, the extremely costly business of constantly updating software packages and renewing licences are removed from your business's IT costs and absorbed by the service provider, who upgrades their online Saas menu on the cloud platform. Click to read more On-premise workloads to Cloud

Companies are being forced to find new ways to create a business IT infrastructure that can respond to the changing size and needs of their business with the minimal fuss and expense. Forward thinking businesses are therefore embracing cloud computing and storage, simply because they provide such a tight level of control over the size of storage and range of services used. A business can quickly and efficiently scale their service package to meet their varying needs, purchasing more storage space if required, without having to pay for additional hardware.

Alongside the reduced operational costs, the benefit for a business of having their software and storage provided online by an external cloud service provider is that their IT department is freed up to focus on other pressing IT issues. It is the external provider who takes responsibility for the smooth running of basic software such as business email and the data storing and data sharing capabilities of the company.

IT departments can often be overworked, being called to deal with various problems across the whole business. Cloud computing and storage enables the streamlining of business processes through one location, enabling the IT department to liaise with the service provider regarding any problems which may arise or any adjustments the business would like to make to their service package.