The cloud today is the low cost and highly efficient secure data service solution, with rapidly growing infrastructure globally. We have seen the big tech companies like Oracle, Google, Amazon, and Alibaba are becoming the leading cloud service provider. But the questions remain why small enterprises, start-up, and established business should move to cloud service, and how secure the cloud service is? We have the answer for you, whether you’re just a start-up or an established MSME, in this blog you find out the complete answer for your questions.

Recently we were surveying Small established IT firms in Bangkok, Thailand. In which we met one the lead CTO. While speaking with him I was completely astonished by his level of understanding in cloud computing and data service as the senior level IT Board member of the company.

According to Lead Manager, they were using AWS cloud service for saving data but they realize that the subscription expenses were mounted very high within 6 months of subscriptions, therefore, they have unsubscribed the service and built their server, without investigating the actual cause of increased price. We also come to know that their IT expertise and system engineers are incapable of building a secure data storage server. Therefore, by building their own they have made an unprecedented security threat for their company and their customers, now anyone can breach through their weak security protocol and can get away with valuable data.

We later come to know that such practices are still prevalent across Asian business, therefore as a tech a company with a consulting service, we feel this as an obligation to educate you through our blog.

1.      Why moving to the cloud is safer?

The cloud service providers as amazon, oracle, and google and Microsoft are the leading tech companies of 21st century, they have the highly professional IT engineers, developers, and experts specialized in the building secure data service, while on the other hand the small enterprises have limited recourses, finance, and expertise to build the secure cloud service. This is why small companies must a good level of understanding in cloud service.

2.      Internal Cause vs External Cause.

Most of the time Data companies talks about external threats such as hacking other cybersecurity threat, but the truth is 3 out of 5 times the data loss or security threat comes from within the organization. The failure of hard-drive is one of the major causes of loss of data in most of the business organization. There has been a case when the internal employees have been misusing the data. Therefore, blaming the service provider is not completely right. The organizational structure and data value should be well understood by the employers and employee, and ensure that the process has been well documented and each employee gets it right.

3.      Must Understand what drives the cost of Cloud Service.

Recently was in 15 days business trip, unfortunately, I forgot to switch off my bathroom room light, there’s only one switch which controls both Ventilation Fan and the light. I was in on a trip, thinking that I won’t be paying electric bills for a full month. But when I came home and realize that my light and fan was on the whole time. I paid double the price from all previous months.

This real-life example is completely true for a cloud subscriber, as it is exactly similar to your electricity and water bills. To understand how it works we need to understand Pay as you go model in cloud computing which can greatly reduce or increase the cost of IT infrastructure. This only holds true if the software is architected and managed in a way that optimizes the use of cloud services. One of the powerful things about cloud computing is how quickly services or computing resources can be turned on, but if the process of consuming cloud resources is not closely governed, then the monthly costs can skyrocket. Therefore, CTO and CFO should work together to understand the Pay-as-go-model service and should have this into their training manual.

4.      Why attempting you build your own server can be a great failure?

Because of lack of understanding on Pay as you go model service the IT companies attempt to build their server to store their consumer data. In such circumstance, their data become vulnerable to online hackers because they lack expertise. The cyber threat is inevitable even for the company who can effort to build high-cost server it is due to lack of tech expertise in their region.

Let’s imagine a scenario where a company moved back their data from to their server, now, in this case, their data became highly vulnerable to the hacker, and not only their data but the data of their consumers as well.

The best is to hire expertise while selecting and moving to the cloud service.

5.      Why you should select IaaS to develop your site or mobile app over PaaS.

If a company is developing the social networking site or mobile application it is smart to use IaaS (infrastructure as a Service) to move your data, this is publicly used service where the business can reach more clients. The success of Instagram and LinkedIn site is highly due to their understanding between these three service providers.

The IaaS is widely used to store public data where a large number of users access their profile every single second, because of this storing data in IaaS service can greatly increase the business chances of success.

6.      Must comprehend SLA before subscribing for Cloud service.

The SLA stands for Service Level Agreement between cloud service provider and subscriber which is you.  This ensures the level of the security and service the to their subscribers, SLA varies from various service providers, for example, oracle’s SLA varies from Azure, AWS’s SLA is different from the workforce.

People today blindly accept the service Level Agreement without reviewing thoroughly through the agreement articles and ending winding up with unfulfilled expectations. As a company CEO, we assume you don’t want to end with this scenario. Therefore, we advise you to train your employees or the responsible expertise to understand deeply the SLA of the service provider.

7.      Be prepared with Disaster Recovery Planning.

Cloud computing is still relatively new and immature. We should expect to see occasional outages, vendors closing their doors, and natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods impacting our ability to keep our systems up all of the time.

Planning for disasters is a critical function regardless of the cloud service model. Companies must determine the RTO, RPO, and value of recovery so that the appropriate investments and recovery designs can be implemented. It is critical to understand how to recover from disasters for each cloud service model and each deployment model.

The greater the risk of the consequences of a disaster to a company, the more likely the company is going to want more control to mitigate those risks. The risk tolerance can drive the cloud service and deployment model decisions. Disaster recovery must be part of the decision-making process when companies choose cloud service and deployment models.

Thank you for reading our article, it has written with understanding in advancing technology to serve your business better.