More clouds? No problem.
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Compared to fake products, the number of clouds in a company is not necessarily a sign of a bad company.
Quite the opposite is true. Companies are so often stuck with having cloud services. But as we will see from the example of Atos IT Solutions & Services (full case study) the fact that a company has its IT infrastructure up and running that is not an excuse for not having interest in other options.
Why Do Companies Move to Cloud?
Quite often this technology is accompanied by warnings and security problems. But these are just instances of individual incidents within the large quantity of functioning entities and data transfers. Companies were used to running their own servers, all physical. But cloud has brought into business the option to save on investment costs and move all that fixed costs into variable operational costs.
If a company takes time to talk to the provider about all the security levels and does its part in the process, then the risk is minimized.
Is One Cloud not Enough?
That is not the way we want to head. For many small companies, SaaS services have become the safety net and that will be the only cloud they need. But these are small companies that are stable in their operations and their needs do not significantly change even in the long-term.
Then there we have the part of companies whose operations are dynamic or very dynamic. At that point, we need to start thinking about cloud and clouds. Just like any other professional, IT technicians need to have at their hands the tools that will be appropriate for individual situations. And these tools in dynamic companies may also include several different cloud services.
Atos IT Solutions & Services – Why Several Clouds?
This global company has a developer division in the Czech Republic as well. Development is a complicated process that needs several types of specialists and the correct set-up of the internal processes. Atos assigns various activities to clouds from global providers. Its internal server room has been exchanged several years ago with an IaaS solution CLOUDPOINT.
This transition didn’t drive the global players from Atos away; quite the opposite, its operations have received yet another efficient elements that helps to run tests during the development process.
Each cloud environment can have its benefits for the company and they are the reasons for the company to implementing it into the infrastructure. For Atos, CLOUDPOINT was an efficient tool that precisely adapted to operations and finances of the testing environment.
More Clouds in a Company
The fact that your company is set in its environment from a specific provider doesn’t not automatically mean that the efficiency of your IT cannot be upgraded with another solution. It is necessary to stear clear from extremes – on the one side to just have one provider, on the other to be the collecter of all cloud service types.
Everything depends on your specific needs and if you are willing to work with your IT dynamically and in a way to truly bring the biggest utility.
