Migrating to the Cloud: Why Move from On-premise to Cloud?

by HashRoot

Enterprises all over the world are embarking on their cloud migration journey in order to accelerate business growth with innovation. Adopting cloud has helped organizations to easily scale their businesses at a lowered cost. Improved efficiency, security, faster product deployment are some of the major benefits organizations get to enjoy by migrating to the cloud.

With this blog, we discuss some of the major benefits organization get by migrating from on-premise to cloud. But before we move onto discussing about the benefits, let's have a close look at what cloud computing is and its significance in today’s world.

What is Cloud Computing?

Businesses are undergoing constant changes and the competition is becoming fierce day by day. The traditional business model lacks the ability to meet this ever-growing business demand. This is where cloud computing comes into the picture. Cloud computing in simple terms is defined as the delivery of IT resources such as compute power, infrastructure services, database storage facility, content delivery services, etc over the internet at a lowered price.

Since cloud computing follows a pay-as-you-go model, users only have to pay for the services they use. It also helps businesses to eliminate the need of spending resources and time on buying and managing their own physical data centers and servers.

Why Migrate to the Cloud?

The spread of Covid-19 and remote working have made the cloud market grow faster in 2020. With the worldwide public cloud user spending set to increase by 18.4% in 2021, Gartner believes that the cloud adoption rate is set to further increase significantly in the years ahead.

Here are some of the reasons why businesses migrate to the cloud.

  1. Flexible
    Cloud computing offers businesses much-needed flexibility in operations. Having your data on the cloud means that, employees can easily access files or data from anywhere at any time using any internet-connected device. It also helps promote the concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), which lets employees bring their own personal device to connect with the organization network and access enterprise systems and data. Better efficiency and improved employee collaboration are some of the other benefits enterprises get to enjoy by migrating to the cloud.
  2. Storage Facility
    Managing your own physical storage space can be expensive and most small and medium-size businesses cannot afford that. By making use of cloud storage space, businesses of all sizes can store their data and information without having the need to pay much. Any changes made to the data in the cloud will also be updated across all the devices that have access to the cloud.
  3. Reliable
    Cloud is the most reliable infrastructure that you can find in today's world. Migrating to the cloud helps your businesses to stay online 24/7. Even if one server fails, you will still have access to your data as another server replaces the failed one. However, how reliable the cloud is depended upon the way businesses optimize it. Optimizing under-performing assets or by sharing assets across multiple cloud service providers are some of the ways to ensure your data security and avoid connectivity issues.
  4. Less Expensive
    Migrating to the cloud can help businesses save a considerable amount of money and resources. Cloud computing involves a pay-as-you-go pricing model, in which the users pay only for the services they use. However, it doesn't guarantee that you will be able to achieve the cost-saving that you expect, without proper optimization.
    According to Forbes, around one-third of the cloud spending is wasted and organizations are finding it difficult to handle their cloud spending. Our team of cloud engineers has years expertise in helping enterprises to make the most out of the cloud at a reduced expense. Explore our cloud performance optimization services to know more.
  5. Improved Security
    Data security is one of the key benefits you get by migrating data to the cloud. All your data that is present in the cloud are encrypted in order to avoid any modification or deletion of data by outside users. Even most cloud providers offer a unique set of features and services that help users to monitor and track all the activities.
    Even in case of any accidental deletion of your data, users can make use of the disaster recovery solutions offered by cloud services to successfully restore the lost data.
  6. Accelerates Digital Transformation
    Cloud is a key enabler of digital transformation and helps accelerate business growth. Cloud provides an opportunity for businesses to make use of the most modern and advanced technologies such as big data analytics, IoT, machine learning, etc.
    Faster deployment, reduced operational cost, improved workforce productivity, and flexibility are some of the other benefits that businesses get to enjoy by migrating from on-premise to cloud.
  7. Improved Business Agility
    Migrating to the cloud makes quicker decision-making possible. All kinds of services and technologies that businesses require are available on the cloud on-demand. Businesses can easily make use of these resources according to the current demands and requirements. It also helps users to avoid the effort and time spent on maintaining and managing on-premise infrastructure.

Conclusion

Cloud computing has been in demand for many years. However, the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and remote working culture has made enterprises speed up their move to the cloud.  Experts claim that by the end of 2021, around 80% of the enterprise will have a solid cloud adoption mechanism in place.

By moving from on-premise to cloud, businesses need not have to worry about upgrading or maintaining their IT infrastructure, since the cloud service provider will take care of that. Businesses only have to pay for the services they use. Scalability, security, resiliency are some of the other factors that encourage organizations to migrate to the cloud.

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