As a business owner, you might be looking into the cloud as a way to improve your server infrastructure. It’s certainly a great way to just that, but here is a lot to take from the cloud aside from just getting new hardware to handle your business operations. The way that cloud computing works at its core can revolutionize how you do business, and can make your workers more efficient and productive. Let’s take a look at these 5 ways cloud can increase your productivity
- Work Anywhere
Since your servers and applications are no longer in your office, there is no need to be tied to the office. This means that employees have access to all of the tools that they need to get work done from anywhere they happen to be. So if your Sales team, for example, is at a client site or at a trade show, they can still login to their quoting tool to produce quotes for clients. As an added bonus, you can also give employees the ability to work remotely, so they can put in work from home and avoid the stress of their commute every now and then. There is value in having an office environment, of course, but sometimes it is nice to work from your couch.
- Work at Anytime
Many organizations work in some form of 9-to-5 pace, but it doesn’t need to be that way. If you have an accountant who is excellent at their job and they want to get a Master’s degree, you can work with them to let them work split days if they run into a class that is only available from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Or they can work a 4-day week and take that day off entirely by working longer hours from home. The options are endless, and they all help to improve work-life balance.
It can also help the service delivered by the company as well – sales teams, for example, can sell to people in other parts of the globe that happen to be in prime working hours when everyone but your night owl employee happens to be asleep. By working with your team through the flexibility the cloud can offer you can expand your business in ways that you might not have thought of. Speaking of flexibility….
- Server Infrastructure at your Command
Regardless of whether you decide to go with a Dedicated Private Server or a vnCloud server to host your online applications, you have some flexibility that just can’t be replicated with traditional hardware. With our services you can request additional RAM and CPU power at your convenience, without having to put up any big capital purchases to get the hardware in place. The process might take a bit more time with a dedicated private server than the immediate speed that vnCloud can give, but at the end of the day you have the flexibility to get the resources you need, when you need them.
- Reduce load on your IT Staff
Having your IT hardware off-site also helps your IT administrators – after all, there is no physical hardware for them to maintain, so they can focus on users instead. Whether you have IT manager customers or employees, they can spend more time helping users stay connected and happy instead of maintaining existing equipment.
- Embrace Agility with the Cloud
Finally, having a cloud environment helps from a business sense as well. Companies can immediately attack opportunities as they arise, without needing to get hardware configured and ready to go. A great example of this would be in Advertising – brands can take a look at current events and leverage them for campaigns and pop-up web servers touching on these events to create exposure for their brand. It’s hard to do that when someone has to buy a server, it has to get built, and then it can deploy. But with a vnCloud server, you can click a few buttons and have the server ready to go in 5 minutes or less.
To learn more about our dedicated private cloud servers and our vnCloud, or to learn other ways that the cloud can help to make your business more productive, feel free to reach out to us. You can reach us by calling (305) 735-8098 option 2 or by emailing sales@vaultnetworks.com.