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Cloud VS On-premises                                                         Benefits of Shifting to the Cloud
      C l o u d   a n d   o n - p r e m i s e  and  providing  easy,  cost-        These are the main advantages

      infrastructure requirements vary  effective, and remote access to            that  the  hybrid  cloud  offers  for
      based  not  only  on  the  size  and  remote stockholders.                   the  smooth  growth  of  the

      nature  of  the  organization  but    Transformation Over the Years          business:
      a l s o   o n   h o w   v i s i o n a r y   In the past, companies were very    Flexibility / Agility

      m a n a g e m e n t   i s   f o r
                                            rigid  about  the  adoption  of           Scalability and Speed
      implementing  and  adopting
                                            c l i e n t s ,   b u t   t h e   C O V I D - 1 9
      technology,  getting  futuristic      pandemic  and  the  Russia-               Independence

      business  insights,  and  involving                                             Cost & Control
                                            Ukraine  crisis  forced  them  to
      technology as key players in their                                              Business Continuity
                                            think  differently  and  begin  to
      vision & roadmap.
                                            embrace  a  hybrid  approach           Final Thoughts
      The  ratio  of  on-premises  to  the  sooner rather than later. It wasn't
                                                                                   The  ratio  of  computing  and
      cloud  may  depend  on  volume,  the  first  time  countries  took            storage  for  on-premise  and

      usage, nature, type of data, and  action against firms, and closed
                                                                                   cloud should be planned based
      owners  of  the  data.  Every  their operations, but this number
                                                                                   on  organizational  needs  and
      organization  should  have  its  was  massive.  Everyone  felt  the          reviewed  timely.  Likewise,  cloud

      assessment and strategic plan. I  challenges and assumed it was              computing has some risk factors
      believe agility and regular review  happening  within  their  own
                                                                                   as well. We can use Hybrid Cloud
      are the key to avoiding any risk  companies even when they were
                                                                                   for rapid organization growth by
      factor, whether security or cost.     in a different safe market. It was     maintaining  the  correct  set  of

      I n   r e c e n t   y e a r s   i n   o u r   cloud infrastructure that helped   policies and practices. Following
      surroundings,  we  have  started      businesses grow or keep running        the review, we should choose the

      noticing  a  big  boost  in  the      in  many  developing  nations  by      appropriate  infrastructure  and
      adoption  of  tools  like  Google     facilitating  work-from-home           environment.  Public  Cloud,  On-

      Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox for      controls.                              premises  Private  Cloud,  Hosted
      hybrid  storage  purposes.  This  is  Challenges we may face include:        Private  Cloud,  On-premises
      a l s o   a p p l i c a b l e   t o   s m a l l   Hardware/infrastructure cost.  (connected to one or more cloud

      businesses.                                                                  partners).
                                               Handle multiple vendors.
      So  far,  industries  were  getting
                                               Sometimes More
      general users who wanted to use
                                               Management: policies,
      the  cloud  for  ease  of  use,          process, tools and manpower.

      avoiding local hardware network
      issues, keeping another backup,



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