Wait!! What?? It’s not applicable for all?
Hold your horses. Although cloud platform is adaptable to all industry and companies, there are few scenarios where it is not for you.
Curious? Well, let us dwell further. Cloud is not for you, if you are:
Too Comfortable with Current Job Environment.
Performance and uptime have a direct effect on the bottom line, and corporates are still worried about this aspect of cloud computing. Your staff might hesitate to move to the cloud because they think their jobs will be in jeopardy or they will have more to do if you implement high efficient work environment because there will no longer be anymore excuse on how they are slowed down by technology.
Have you ever considered whether rejecting employee mobility will impact your company performance? Or is it because you think that everyone needs to work in the office anyways? 2020 proved you wrong hasn’t it? Those that lacked the ability to work from home suffers from salary cuts or even job loss. Still think it is comfortable now. There is a Latin adage,” Si vis pacem, para bellum” that translates to “Those who desires peace, be prepared for war during peace” which is interpreted to mean comfort through growth.
Willing to Tolerate on Crippled Technology
You enthusiastically invested large sum onto improving the overall organization’s IT structure, but you have not gotten proper value out of that investment, so now you don’t find investing in company’s IT system will get your money’s worth.
Instead, you willingly accept the fact that you do not need to invest on new technology and willing to work around those limitations, or worse, doing it manually like the old days – tons of multiple duplicates for backup purposes, spamming your colleagues or customer by sending huge files through email for sharing, and access important protected files only in the office.
Yes, agreed, those are great ways to manage your data if we still live in the ‘90s. How are your competitors doing?
Not comfortable with not owning their own server hardware
It feels like giving control to a 3rd-party on all your proprietary data. You would feel more comfortable having a physical server, allocating space while setting up the environment for that server, and paying for support when things go south. It even brings peace of mind that comes from knowing that, if all else fails, you can go in and fix the hardware yourself because you think you have full control.
However, it is important to distinguish between “doing the donkey work” and “having control”. If anything, you have more control over what you’re deploying on with cloud platform, since you have no fixed allocation of resources – you use as much or as little as you need and that leads to savings.
By the way, owning your own hardware and keeping your servers within arm’s reach does not necessarily keeps it safe. Without proper management system in place, data can still leak out.
Does any of these scenarios relate to you? Let us know what you think. Reach out to our engineering consultants for technical demo and consultancy and we will be at your service!
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