Cloud services are increasingly becoming popular among all types of businesses located all across the globe. In Australia too, majority of the businesses nowadays are utilising cloud-based services to facilitate smooth flow of operations in their organisation. But what is the reason behind this increasing importance of cloud services? Let’s find out in this blog.
What are Cloud Services?
Cloud services can be described as a wide range of services that provide information technology (IT) as a service over the Internet or dedicated network, with delivery on demand, and payment based on usage. It offers an alternative means to managing the entire IT infrastructure in-house. These services allow users to manage their data storage and archiving, web and email hosting, databases, software applications, document storage, email, training videos and much more online.
The cloud services are delivered by cloud service providers or managed IT service providers who fully manage and control the functions of these services. They are made available to customers from the cloud service providers' servers and hence, there's no need for the business or organisation to host the applications on its own on-premises servers.
What are the benefits offered by cloud services?
The cloud services provide a wide array of advantages to its users and that is why these services are considered important. Some of the key advantages of using cloud services are:
Reduced costs: The cloud services are highly cost effective since they are provided by the cloud service providers on a monthly or annual subscription basis and save business owners from paying for on-premises software licenses. These services also allow businesses to access software, storage and other services without having to invest in the underlying infrastructure or handle maintenance and upgrades.
Increased scalability: Cloud services eliminates the need for a business to invest in its own resources or allocate extra IT staff for management of the IT systems since all-necessary infrastructure and software are provided by the cloud service provider. This, in turn, makes it easy for the business to scale the solution as user needs change- whether in terms of increasing the number of licenses to accommodate a growing workforce or expanding and enhancing the applications themselves.
Anywhere access: An important advantage of the cloud-based service is that it provides the users with anytime and anywhere access to data, applications and content from any computer, laptop, smartphone or other device.
Faster implementation: The time taken by a service provider to transfer all the existing information, deploying and implementing the entire cloud services into an organisation is minimal in comparison to the time it takes to replace or upgrade outdated hardware. And also, there are no further upgrades or replacements required at all.
Leading cloud-based services by Business ICT
Business ICT is a leading and trusted managed IT services providing company that offers a complete range of telecommunication and ICT services to all types of businesses located across Australia. We deliver a wide range of small business IT consulting and cloud services including Cloud backup solutions, Office 365 business plans, Managed office 365 and Microsoft office 365 services that help businesses to manage the work-from-home environment efficiently and seamlessly.
For more information, contact our customer care team at 1300780724. You can also visit their official website at www.busict.com.
