Cloud solutions

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 There are many good reasons why most small and midsized businesses are embracing the cloud.

Mobility

With today’s workforce becoming increasingly mobile the ability to hop on a network from anywhere via any device can be attractive. It may even be necessary. Being hand-cuffed to a desktop or physical network is simply no longer an option.

Security

Cloud computing may seem less secure – at first. But the cloud is better for security when it’s approached strategically. With information stored in a secured data center, you get strong 24/7 physical security and onsite IT staff who are working to keep everything up to date and dependable.

Improved Disaster Recovery

When data is being stored in the cloud, businesses don’t have the burden of investing in the same elaborate back-up systems. Recovering data is easier when it’s all safe in the cloud, all you have to do is download a new copy and get back to work.

IT Infrastructure

No more server maintenance! We are well-aware of the dreaded “IT Closet”. The too-hot, supposed-to-be-air-conditioned, wire-filled, blinking light wall of tech that nobody wants to touch. With cloud computing the server goes away (or gets dramatically reduced in size), eliminating a source of chronic IT stress for many organizations.

 There are major category of cloud solution, public private, and hybrid. What do those terms mean?

Public Cloud services like Amazon AWS mean that all of the cloud resources, including servers and storage, are fully-owned by the vendor. The end-user (your business) uses those resources as little or as much as they need, on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Private Cloud is a cloud platform that can only be used by the people inside your organization. While it can be hosted onsite in your data center or at a third-party data center, the effect is maximum flexibility, control, and scalability. The downside? You have the maintain the cloud infrastructure yourself.

Hybrid Cloud solutions utilize a mix or on-premise and cloud infrastructure to deliver a mix of scalability, security, compliance that gives you the best of both worlds. Through decades of cloud experience, we’ve found that hybrid cloud infrastructure is the best option for most businesses in Texas.

 Hybrid cloud provides many benefits to small and midsized businesses

1. Keep important data in high-security storage systems, while still allowing mobile and work from home teams to access it as they need.
2. Scale your infrastructure to accommodate new projects or initiatives, while keeping a reliable baseline network capacity.
3. Embrace new capabilities and innovations without risking the overall stability of your network operations