There are advantages and disadvantages to all types of cloud. These tend to center around cost and security, a private cloud being both more expensive and, theoretically, more secure for protecting your business data. A company that wants quick access to its data from anywhere might use a public cloud \u2013 the market-leading suppliers of cloud storage have a strong focus on providing the highest level of security. A business which holds large quantities of sensitive data, such as legal and financial, and some tech companies, might choose a private cloud. Increasingly, however, many companies go hybrid \u2013 critical data may be stored privately, while less important information and resources such as apps are held in the public cloud.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re all heading for the clouds<\/strong><\/h2>\nCloud adoption is growing strongly. According to research by Kaspersky<\/a>, 37 percent of small- to medium-sized businesses and 50 percent of all enterprises are either using the cloud or planning to increase their use of the cloud. There are good reasons for this. Maintaining IT infrastructure and the associated expertise in-house is expensive and keeping up to date with new technologies can mean running just to stand still. For these reasons, even large multinationals often buy in their cloud services.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/30085450\/cloud-computing-options-inline-1024x768.jpg\")
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One of the other great drivers is changing working habits: increasingly staff is either distributed or working remotely<\/a>. If everything they do is in the cloud, it can be accessed anywhere and from any device. Even so, Kaspersky also found that the speed of cloud adoption varies considerably<\/a> by industry sector and geographical location.<\/p>\nFor small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the arguments in favor of cloud adoption are perhaps the most compelling: the cost of maintaining IT infrastructure in-house is often prohibitive; as a result, many have \u2018made do\u2019 with technology that is far from cutting edge. Now they can buy everything in and have access to the same kind of IT and processing power as large companies. SMBs can use the latest productivity software; they can mine data to gain greater insights. What\u2019s more, cloud computing is also highly scalable. If you need more cloud services, you just buy them. It\u2019s like buying electricity \u2013 you just pay for what you use. Traditionally, SMBs have lacked the specialist skills and capabilities to set up infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaas), so they tend to use instead software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, which are far simpler to implement and remove the need to maintain the underlying software.<\/p>\n
Security in the cloud<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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One of the other great drivers is changing working habits: increasingly staff is either distributed or working remotely<\/a>. If everything they do is in the cloud, it can be accessed anywhere and from any device. Even so, Kaspersky also found that the speed of cloud adoption varies considerably<\/a> by industry sector and geographical location.<\/p>\n For small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the arguments in favor of cloud adoption are perhaps the most compelling: the cost of maintaining IT infrastructure in-house is often prohibitive; as a result, many have \u2018made do\u2019 with technology that is far from cutting edge. Now they can buy everything in and have access to the same kind of IT and processing power as large companies. SMBs can use the latest productivity software; they can mine data to gain greater insights. What\u2019s more, cloud computing is also highly scalable. If you need more cloud services, you just buy them. It\u2019s like buying electricity \u2013 you just pay for what you use. Traditionally, SMBs have lacked the specialist skills and capabilities to set up infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaas), so they tend to use instead software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, which are far simpler to implement and remove the need to maintain the underlying software.<\/p>\nSecurity in the cloud<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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