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How the use of cloud technologies can reduce business costs

by Xozepew Usaz We are always in the lead!
People are constantly looking for innovations that could bring maximum benefit and comfort in their lives. In this article, we will try to tell you about the changes that will occur in your business if you start using cloud technologies.
Have you thought about optimizing logistics in your company's process chain? Logistics, as the art of calculating, organizing the movement of goods and services from the people who produce them to the people who consume them, developed especially rapidly during periods of wars, when the lives of many people depended on solving the problems of supplying the army. A similar situation occurs in the economy and the success of development and the ability to withstand the crisis depend on the efficiency of logistics.

Our time is the age of information, a time when the information flow of each company has noticeably increased and accelerated. A significant part of the effort is spent on ensuring that information about every fact of the company's life is securely stored and is available in the right place and at the right time. In the conditions when the office of the company "lives" on computers, the optimization of information logistics is and will be the main way to increase business efficiency, reduce costs and create new opportunities for growth.

Let's compare the traditional analysis of the efficiency of transport logistics with the analysis of logistics in your information infrastructure to understand the best way to reduce IT costs, not only without losing business opportunities, but also with accelerating its growth.

Take a look at the Seven Rules of Transport Logistics, Time-tested. Only cloud technologies are able to work according to all these rules.

Rule No. 2. The product must be of appropriate quality.

When concluding an agreement on the provision of services in a cloud service, an agreement is signed between the buyer and the cloud service provider with a qualitative and quantitative description of the services that is understandable, both from the point of view of the provider and from the point of view of the client. Is the buyer satisfied? Are cloud services meeting customer expectations? Providers guarantee the availability of services at least 99.9%!

This means that 1C in the cloud, data storage or corporate mail will be unavailable for use for no more than two minutes a day. Will your system administrator have time to restart the server in case of a failure in 2 minutes, leaving for lunch? And what happens if the server breaks down during vacation or if the IT worker is sick? Your cloud provider takes care of the problem. Providing such a level of reliability without a sharp increase in the cost of IT infrastructure maintenance is possible only with the transfer of risk. With a 99.95% probability you will receive no less than you expect! This means that cloud services are a new benchmark for meeting quality of service expectations.

Rule No. 3. The product must be in the required quantity.

Payment for actually used resources - this is how cloud services work. You only rent what you need and pay after use. Would you like your business to "eat" exactly as much as it needs for a "healthy life"? Cloud hosting allows you not to overgrow "fat" servers that are idle most of the time, and not to use "thin" virtual hosting, which will not withstand the load and "lie down". If we draw a parallel between cloud storage and an enterprise warehouse, then the capacity of the "cloud" warehouse is always used at 100%, while the warehouse staff instantly increases and decreases in accordance with the needs. So that you are not too distracted by thoughts of such an ideal warehouse for your goods, we will immediately move on to the next rule of efficient logistics.

Rules No. 4 and 5. The product must be delivered at the right time and place.

No one will be surprised by the practice of ordering transport services when urgent delivery of goods is required instead of buying your own truck. Such outsourcing has long been successfully used, allowing you to focus on what the company does best in the market, saving time and money on secondary processes. So why not use it in technology? Cloud IT infrastructure is deployed in the shortest possible time and makes it possible to work remotely with office systems using any device, including mobile devices. This technological service will quickly become available to you in the right place and, if necessary, will be with you wherever you have Internet access.

Renting or buying only the services you need, paying for used resources without capital investments and guaranteeing their availability are ideal conditions for minimizing costs and cloud technologies are able to create them stably. That is why Rule # 6 also works. The product should be delivered with minimal cost.

Rule No. 7. The product must be for a specific consumer.

A cloud solution can be assembled from separate technological elements and fully meet the needs of companies from different industries. For customers with increased security requirements, it is possible to create private, isolated networks.

Now that we have an idea of ​​what the IT infrastructure needs to be in order to be effective, let's return to Rule # 1. The product must be necessary for the consumer.

When economic conditions become more difficult, businesses need flexible and effective solutions. Many have already realized this need and soon we will not imagine life without cloud technologies, efficient in terms of logistics, which will help to win more than one war to the one who first understood its rules.

Also, we recommend that you read the article on how cloud products can effectively help your business https://dev.pro/insights/how-cloud-products-can-help-your-business-scale-effectively/

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About Xozepew Usaz Innovator   We are always in the lead!

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