Your server has been good to you – very good. At the same time, it’s been a tremendous burden. Costly, consistently in need of maintenance, monitoring and expansion, it’s been a real footprint hog delivering a constant pang of worry to you in those middle of the night thunderstorm moments. Lately, you’ve been thinking about your server. A lot.
Your dedicated server hardware requires constant resource management. Lately, you’ve been extra worried about cybersecurity – especially with your data center administrator’s extended vacation on the horizon. You’ve also become increasingly conscious of the energy your server requires – it’s green impact – with its dependence on cooling costs and networking gear.
Is it time to retire your physical server?
ComputerWorld featured a study that shared 30% of all physical servers in data centers are comatose, or are using energy but delivering no useful information. That study published nearly 24 months ago – so one wonders: Are there even more zombie physical servers out there?
Is YOUR server a zombie?
Not if it’s in the cloud. Hosting in the cloud is an increasingly prevalent alternative to maintaining a physical data center. Businesses looking to eliminate wasteful spending on non-productive costs are fast realizing that maintaining dedicated physical servers is an increasingly thankless task.
How Much Can Your Business Save With The Cloud?
Businesses that have on-premise servers and software solutions can opt to go SaaS or host their applications in a cloud-hosted environment with a secure cloud-hosting provider, such as CompuData. There are various benefits to storing files in the cloud, whether personal documents, business records – anything. Confidential files are well protected in the cloud, where security is paramount. What’s more, if there is a natural disaster and a company’s computers are destroyed, you’re safe – all your data is protected in the cloud.
Let’s not forget cloud intelligence!
Keep in mind, Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provide substantial benefits ranging from increased productivity to boosted operational efficiency and reduced costs. Businesses today of all sizes want data analytics and business intelligence tools capable of elevating business processes and strategic decisions to new levels of competency and value. So, maybe it is time to retire your server. It has served you well, but you are ready to grow.
Contact the cloud experts at CompuData to get started!