If you haven\u2019t made the move to Azure cloud, what\u2019s stopping you? Many businesses either have moved or are starting to and I can tell you the top 6 reasons that are driving businesses to the cloud.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1. Business Growth<\/strong> \u2013 Are you experiencing new growth in your current sectors or looking into new sectors for your business? For those who are in the cloud, they saw the reasons for adopting the new cloud technologies and are already taking advantage of the business drivers discussed here. Think about how the cloud can help you, but don\u2019t jump in with two feet. Plan or outline how the cloud can help your business; planning helps avoid cost overruns.<\/p>\n 2. Efficiency<\/strong> \u2013 You can streamline processes, increase productivity, as well as deliver, both internally and externally, much faster.<\/p>\n 3. Experience<\/strong> \u2013 The cloud gives you the opportunity to improve your customer and employee experience. You can deploy new technologies quickly and it gives you more of a landscape to offer new areas of engagement with existing clientele, or for new clients.<\/p>\n 4. Agility<\/strong> \u2013 The flexibility of Azure public cloud will give you improved responsiveness from your internal departments, IT folks and internal consultants you may work with. You\u2019ll also get Software as a Service (SaaS) technologies and you can spin up quicker solutions to help enable your workforce to get things done faster. And if you make a mistake, you\u2019re not stuck with a software license purchase for years; simply swap out for a technology that\u2019s a better fit.<\/p>\n 5. Cost<\/strong> \u2013 Many have concerns about overspending. One misconception is that you\u2019ll automatically cut costs. This is often not the case. Oftentimes, you\u2019ll need to restructure you\u2019re spending budgets. The good news is you\u2019ll be spreading those costs out over time. You\u2019re moving into a subscription model, so you\u2019re only paying for what you\u2019re using. You can buy what you need for service, turn off the service when you\u2019re not using it but only use it as it works most effectively for your business.<\/p>\n 6. Assurance<\/strong> \u2013 You\u2019ll now know you have a \u2018best in class\u2019 infrastructure and much of the maintenance for your servers that IT had to take care of will be drastically reduced. Security takes a different approach. Everything is secure and on by default, like data or storage encryption, so you\u2019ll have to go in manually to turn them off.<\/p>\n You can also rest assured knowing that Microsoft has already met most regulatory and policy requirements, allowing you to continue to move forward and offer more to your customers, regardless of what space they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n