On-Prem Vs Cloud: Which Is Better For Your Business?
The decision to keep your company’s data on-premises or in the cloud (or to migrate it from one to the other) can seem complicated and intimidating at first. Even so, a lot of businesses—both big and small—are opting for a cloud solution.
Small, medium, and big enterprises are migrating to cloud storage because it generally meets all requirements as the best option, although there are some edge circumstances where it falls short.
To help you make a more informed decision, let’s examine the pros?and cons?of both cloud storage and on-premises storage.
What exactly is on-prem storage?
When your company uses on-premises storage, it means that the servers are housed within your physically built infrastructure.??Your business’s internal IT team or an IT partner purchases, sets up, maintains, controls, and connects the servers. These servers are connected using the local network to allow data and other information to be shared.
What is cloud storage?
With cloud storage, your data is hosted by a third-party service provider like Microsoft. All hardware, software, and other supporting infrastructure for the cloud provider’s data centers are purchased, set up, and maintained by Microsoft. You use the internet to access these services and manage your account from a PC, mobile app, or web browser.
Check out why Your business will do better in the cloud.
From the data above, cloud storage is beneficial to your business because of scalability, security, and other advantage over on-premise data storage. Need to migrate to the cloud? Cloudsa Africa got you! Fill out this form and we can get started! Get started Now!
Blog Credit: Microsoft Azure