3 Cloud Computing Tips From Successful Businesses

A growing business requires better technology and efficient solutions to break through the competition. By improving your network capabilities, you can get things done faster and better. But improving technology and your existing network capabilities come at a hefty price since the server level computers can cost thousands.

Businesses are realizing that this cost can be cut down by adapting cloud computing and since then the cloud has emerged as one of the most effective and powerful alternatives to the traditional on-site approach. 

To make the best out of cloud computing, we have gathered a few tips from successful businesses designed to help you get the best value out of the platform and make the best of your network.

Take Advantage of Low-Cost Options However You Can

  • There are many cloud providers these days such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. The key to getting the best value out of a platform is to find a platform that can help you save costs. For example, Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform has a very attractive pay-as-you-go model which allows businesses to use services and solutions as they see fit.

By choosing a cloud platform where you have the liberty to pay for what you need, you can save significantly on the services and solutions, allowing you to allocate that budget somewhere else. 

Make Your Network Cloud-Based

  • To make sure you get maximum speed and efficiency, you’ll want to ensure that all of your applications are running through the cloud. To pull this off, you will require a cloud platform that works with your existing applications.

Microsoft Azure is one of the best when it comes to making your existing applications work on the cloud. But even then your business should set up their network in such a way that cloud applications are prioritized over other operations that are less critical for your business. This will allow you to harness the true potential of cloud computing. 

Keep A Close Eye On Your Multi-Cloud Setup

  • A lot of modern businesses are taking advantage of multi-cloud setups that allow them to handpick specific technologies they require and harness the strength of each service they have picked. 

But if you do not keep a close eye on this setup, the cost of redundant services can quickly add up and will put stress on your budget. So make sure that you closely monitor how every application data flows between the platforms and yourself. 

Ready To Migrate to Cloud?

  • If you’ve decided to move your on-site servers to the cloud, then next you need to decide which cloud platform you should choose. The corporate world has given its verdict and Microsoft Azure is currently the number one platform for small, medium, and large businesses.

But migration to Azure is not as simple as you might think. This is why companies like Henson Group, a certified Microsoft Azure partner is your best bet to move to the cloud smoothly. 

our migration practice helps customers migrate from on-premise VMware/Hyper-V, Colo such as Rackspace, or other clouds like AWS to a Microsoft Azure Datacenter or Azure Stack Infrastructures.  This team also helps clients migrate existing workloads in Azure IaaS to Azure PaaS including SQL Server to Azure SQL Database, SQL SSIS to Data Factory, SQL SSRS/Tableau to PowerBI, Data Warehouses to Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database Tables to Data Lake, and many others.