Startups Overcoming the Fear of Cloud Computing

Today, cloud computing is being used for normal functioning by startup entrepreneurs. No doubt, they won’t be using this technology at an extensive level, but they do use it.

Embedded deeply in our daily functioning, cloud computing is offering flexibility to all types of businesses. Just a few years back, when the tech startups were trying to make their mark in business, society and industry, they were held back with the high cost of the technology itself. It would require them to spend thousands and thousands of dollars to pursue their dreams, thanks to the exorbitant cost of cloud computing infrastructure. Its cost included the heavy-duty servers plus the cost of software required to run them.

Since cloud computing has arrived at the market, tech startups don’t need to invest high in the infrastructure. This was a big welcome development for the complete startup movement as a whole, particularly because their financial and business success wasn’t guaranteed in the first place. The benefits of cloud computing are more for startups as compared to developed companies. This is because these startups run on a low budget and have a limited income source.

Let’s dive into more details –

Get a Scalable and Customised Solution

Startups are at the stage of development, so, their operations expand speedily and their resource requirements also keep on increasing enormously. Startup owners get an opportunity to justify this growing demand with minimum investment.

Cloud service providers often give startups the on-demand services that are relevant to their industry. Also, they can upgrade these services later as requirements increase when the startup is developing.

It is Accessible and Available Everywhere

In a startup, many times a situation occurs when the client requires some editing to be done urgently which might be before or after office timings. Usually, startups get caught in such situations as the relevant data on the computer is just lying lavishly in the office.

Your employees, as well as you, can’t go carrying important data wherever you go. With cloud computing, the data saved on the cloud server is accessible to employees from any computer. Additionally, people working in different departments can share resources over the internet.

Save More With Cost-Effective Platform

Cost cutting is one of the major challenges faced by startup business owners. Money is lost within a second of time if one isn’t careful and it is obvious that startups don’t have millions to spend persistently.

Savings and cost-effectiveness are also achievable with cloud technology. Startup entrepreneurs spend big bucks on building a website, hardware installation, physical storage devices and purchasing expensive software. The cloud server can reduce this cost to a good extent as with cloud computing you only pay for what you use and later you can adjust this storage as per your business needs. This means if less storage is being used you pay less and when your demands increase you buy more.

As per some surveys, if your sales team goes to paperless functioning, you can save approximately 10000 EUR in a year. This amount can vary for small businesses but cloud storage can save you a big amount of money.

A Secure and Reliable Platform

Critics argue that cloud isn’t a secure and reliable platform, but in fact, it is far better than a local physical storage solution. Storage devices can get surrendered to malfunctions and system glitches and once this happens, you can’t retrieve information. Nothing is 100% reliable and so cloud can also fail, but the cloud backup system can save you from losing any significant information.

The usual purpose of cloud providers is to offer security and reliability which are the main features of cloud computing. Even if something bad happens, the cloud IT experts as well as their advance backup system will help you to recover everything. Since all this is done on the provider’s side, you don’t need to worry about a single thing.

Easily Integrate

You as a startup founder might get discouraged when it comes to losing information while integrating with the cloud platform. But it’s just an old myth that can be misleading to business owners and sometimes integration becomes the reason for avoiding migration to the cloud.

A few years back, shifting to cloud and migrating legacy systems was a hard task, but today extracting information from a SaaS platform and shifting legacy data to the cloud has become very easy.

Work Collaboratively

Every startup meets a stage wherein, one needs to maintain a balance between the onshore as well as the offshore team. In case the offshore team involves marketers, content writers and other such employees who require minimal storage make everything quite simple to manage. Suppose your offshore team involves only graphic designers and developers then you would be in trouble as it won’t be possible to share huge data. Everything is possible, but the feasibility to maintain this balance without cloud storage is less.

Cloud solves data sharing issues as well as gives you a secure platform. When there is a question of security, cloud sharing is highly secure from outside attacks when compared to email conversations or other such methods.

Build a Strong Business Foundation

The major ingredients for the effective working of a startup are continuous functioning and uninterrupted workflow. For instance, a computer crashes on a working day and it isn’t possible to recover data then you need to consider yourself lucky only if you have taken a system backup as most startups lack funds to do so. Suppose it’s the opposite scenario, where there’s no backup taken, all your data is lost and your team needs to start again.

If your startup is based on a strong foundation and recovery system, which is offered by cloud storage, such minor issues won’t break the flow of your work. In other words, cloud computing helps your startup to run efficiently even in risky situations.

Cloud computing is enhancing daily and many organizations are adopting it regularly. It's rare to find a company or organization which has backed up from the cloud going back to old traditional methods. Certainly, if the cloud is helping to reduce the burden of cost then what more does any startup require?

Get into the race and opt for a cloud platform to have a stress-free working environment, efficient backup capabilities and better storage.

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