Many governments today are moving their applications and data to the cloud. There are plenty of reasons for this shift including keeping your data safe, staying current with rapidly changing technology, and keeping hardware and software up-to-date to avoid security risks. The cloud levels the playing field through enterprise grade technology that's affordable and accessible.
If you've been on the fence about moving your organization's applications and data to the cloud, the following are four (4) benefits to make this move.
1. LOWER COSTS
Moving to the cloud can lower your costs in the following ways:
- Reduce hardware costs
Moving to the cloud can sharply reduce hardware costs, freeing up resources for other pressing concerns.
- Save on energy costs
It's easy to overlook the impact of energy costs. Servers require a lot of cooling and energy to run. You can eliminate those costs and lower your utility bills.
- Reduce IT costs.
When you move to the cloud, you also save on IT and operational support. Many businesses find themselves hiring IT to maintain their server. Most of this cost can be eliminated.
2. ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY
With COVID-19, we have learned that having accessibility to your applications and data is important for business continuance. Your software and applications could be available whether you are working in the office of at home by moving to the cloud. Most times, simply having an internet connection will provide you access to those critical software applications and files.
3. REDUCE SECURITY RISKS
Cybersecurity risks have never been more prevalent. Security challenges are everywhere with the threat of ransomware, viruses and more. Cloud storage can help you reduce the number of security risks, giving you one less thing to worry about. Cloud computing is a great way to close security gaps.
4. DATA BACKUP AND REDUNDANCY
By having automatic backups and redundancy built into your cloud agreement, the risk of downtime from hardware or software problems is greatly reduced. Your cloud provider should have redundant servers in different time zones and available for failover if something were to go wrong with one server. In addition, going to the cloud reduces the stress of wondering whether your backup system is working every night.
If you are interested in moving your Civic applications and data to the cloud, email sales@civicsystems.com or call Mike Laesch at 608.240.2389.