By Ben Puzzuoli, Director Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox
July 20, 2015

DataDepositBox Online Data Backup Expert Tips: The Risk is Now in Waiting—Imperatives for Cloud Adoption

If mitigation of risk is a business imperative, CIOs are failing in their duty if they ignore the cloud. Experience shows that the risk is in the waiting—the delay in adopting the cloud.

Much of the computing equipment—hardware and software—idle in the distributed environment of the enterprise. More than 3/4th of the IT budgets are spent on maintaining current status of the infrastructure. About 30% of customers will terminate the relationship with the company if they know that there has been a security breach or there is a likelihood of one. These are, but pointers to disabilities in the existing system. There is a need to improve the way in which IT infrastructure resources are used. There is a need to rationalize on IT spending and to improve customer confidence. In brief, there is a need to transition to a more dynamic, scalable, secure IT environment—the cloud.

Large and established cloud service providers have the capacity to harness and deploy the latest innovations in technology. The acquisition and deployment of innovative cloud technology is “core” to their business and it is their unique selling proposition. Individual enterprises signing up for the cloud can obtain access to latest technologies at the price that they paid for the earlier technology and can focus their attention on the “core” of their own business. They can operate without IT constraints in the new economic environment that is emerging.

The cloud integrates and provisions for a number of business specific applications that can help small and medium enterprises compete on par with their larger brethren. Responsibility for upgrade or improvement is abstracted to the service provider and the “utility” can be enjoyed by the enterprise subscribing to the application at a very nominal cost as economies of scale kick in and reduce costs all round.

Apart from the obvious benefits accruing from cloud adoption, there are certain hidden or not so visible benefits that may be derived by an enterprise. The cloud helps businesses align their business practices with the world best practices. It enforces discipline and forces the enterprise have a re-look at their data stores. It equips them to compete effectively with new and nimble competitors. The cloud optimizes costs and creates a right balance between fixed and variable costs. Therefore, the risk is not in adopting the cloud, but in waiting to adopt it!

About the Author: Ben Puzzuoli is Director of Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox, a Toronto based cloud data backup service provider, which is listed at both the Toronto and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges. DataDepositBox technologies and solutions are currently used daily by over 200,000 customers, 1,000 resellers, 25 MSPs and private label partners for online backup and recovery, archiving, disaster readiness, secure file sharing and remote access. Visit DDB website here: www.DataDepositBox.com

 

 

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