What is "as a Service" (aaS)
There’s a good reason cloud services have exploded in adoption across the past few years: they offer many significant benefits over traditional on-premises solutions. The modern Cloud offers many different subscription-based digital services: from a simple file storage program like Dropbox or Google Drive, a virtual server in an offsite data center, to an entire cloud platform like Microsoft 365.
All of these offerings share a common model: instead of being sold as prepackaged software or hardware, they’re provided “as a Service” (“aaS”) for a recurring payment.
Cloud 'as a service' gives your business better
Predictability, Flexibility & Resiliency
Change is Expensive
Cloud solutions simplify that change.
Whether it’s a new hire, a team restructuring, or a data migration, surprise changes can be hard to predict and execute on a convenient timeline. A small alteration to a traditional in-house system often means altering how much you spend on licensing, hardware, utility needs, or perhaps even a costly server upgrade!
On a cloud model, you can mitigate some of these more dramatic big-ticket purchases: capital expenses become operational expenses, which are far easier to track, budget for, and plan around.
Hybrid Work is Here to Stay
Adaptability is no longer a “nice to have.”
Fexibility can mean the difference between momentum and stagnation when the unexpected happens. A single, rigidly prescribed method of working in a single location simply isn’t a necessity anymore, thanks to innovations in cloud solutions like Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure that are accessible in a variety of configurations.
Organizations with higher degrees of cloud adoption are less reliant on a single physical office space, less reliant on finnicky VPN solutions, and more able to scale up or down to meet current demands, without the need to make large-scale purchases or liquidations.
Physical on-site storage is more vulnerable.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket…or server room.
Unless you have a compelling reason for an on-premise server, your files are much safer away from a single physical storage location. With an on-site server your data is vulnerable to hardware failure, fire, a power surge, or even a disgruntled employee. Even with backups, restoration can be long and costly.
With a cloud server solution, this problem is virtually nonexistent. Files and servers on the cloud are exponentially more resilient to disasters and outages than a physical on-site setup, and you no longer need to worry about babysitting your server room.