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Four Ways Your Business Can Benefit from the Cloud This Year

Four Ways Your Business Can Benefit from the Cloud This Year

Through cloud-based technology, your business can change the way it operates in countless different ways, all of which can benefit you in the long run. If you haven’t yet considered cloud-based solutions for infrastructure, then you could be missing out on some of the greatest innovations of the past decade. Here are some ways your business can start to leverage the cloud to its advantage.

Improve Scalability and Cost-Effectiveness

With such a cost-effective tool ready to implement, your business has much to gain from the cloud—particularly public cloud solutions that are about as turnkey as you get. Cloud solutions are generally pay-as-you-go, so you pay for resources as you need or consume rather than a set one-time installation fee for new hardware or software. You can be more flexible with your resources as a result, leading to an infrastructure that is much more in line with what your business needs at any given moment.

Consolidate Your Resources

Legacy software plagues a lot of businesses that haven’t quite gotten in tune with the times, and many organizations choose to rely on servers specifically for these solutions. Through the cloud, you can host virtual servers specifically for your legacy applications or partition servers so that they have different operating systems, thereby consolidating your resources and saving money. This also gives you the opportunity to continue your use of legacy systems in a safe and controlled environment.

Access Your Tools Remotely

With the cloud essentially providing an online environment for your technology resources, you can access applications and files through an Internet connection. It’s great for the purposes of anytime-anywhere access, something that allows for remote and hybrid workplace arrangements for further operational flexibility. Who knows—it might even contribute to making your workplace more competitively viable for job seekers!

Collaborate More Efficiently

With your cloud solutions being in an online space, your business can access these solutions as they are needed, making collaboration that much easier. You can collaborate through online video chat, asynchronous instant messaging, or through a productivity suite or task management software. These solutions can also integrate with Voice over Internet Protocol or video conferencing tools to help your team be just as productive as if they were in the same room as one another.

Ready to Commit to the Cloud?

One Up Solutions Northwest can help your business implement the best cloud solutions on the market. To learn more, call us at (503) 278-5011.

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