If your business isn’t yet on the cloud, ASi Networks can help you move your company’s data center and management capabilities out of legacy infrastructure or on-premises hardware.
The cloud migration process is similar to moving equipment from a smaller office to a larger one. While it requires some degree of preparation, the result has numerous advantages: improved performance and flexibility, lower operating costs, and scalability.
One of the primary advantages of moving to the cloud is improving service performance and flexibility.
Depending on your business, hosting the company’s data and services on a cloud-based server may put it closer to your customers than if they remained on legacy on-premises servers, resulting in decreased latency times.
In practice, this translates into increased connection and service delivery speeds. Cloud-based services also make it simpler for users worldwide to access your hosted data and services, making it easier to expand into international territories and reach out to customers far away from the company’s home country.
It also allows for greater employee flexibility, allowing your company to benefit from the advantages of remote work without loss of work capability.
One of the most convenient features a cloud service provider can provide you with is your company’s own hosted email service with the advantages of cloud computing.
A cloud-based email service provides you with the same benefits as a standard business email system, including the possibility to use your website as your email address domain for branding.
However, it comes with the advantages typical of cloud-based services, including:
Instant remote access: Connect to your business email account as quickly as popular free services (e.g., Gmail or Microsoft Outlook) from any device you already own.
Low cost: Maintaining dedicated hardware for email is costly and time-consuming. Moving it to the cloud is cheaper and faster.
Cloud-based data recovery: If anything goes wrong, a cloud-based hosted email service features built-in redundancy features, allowing for automatic data backup and recovery if any messages or contacts are lost.
If you are familiar with legacy business file-sharing services and protocols, such as FTP or peer-to-peer, cloud-based file-sharing services fulfill the same purposes. However, they offer many substantial advantages over these legacy solutions.
For instance, unlike FTP servers, cloud-based file-sharing eliminates the need to maintain servers and proprietary software. As with other cloud-based services, your existing devices and a compatible application are the only required equipment.
Cloud-based file synchronization services ensure that all files are available at any time to all authorized users, with live updating and refreshing. Additionally, cloud-based services use advanced data protection and encryption protocols, such as end-to-end and zero-knowledge, offering better data security than legacy solutions.