4 Advantages to Public Cloud

One of the major reasons that businesses all over the world choose to adopt the public cloud is because it has a lot of advantages that organisations cannot wait to implement. From being budget-friendly, to scalability, public cloud has a range of benefits that organisations of all shapes and sizes can take advantage of to help them achieve their business goals whilst also succeeding in today’s competitive market. Whether you are just starting out with cloud or you are one of the 94% of businesses that already have adopted cloud and are looking to modify your existing cloud strategy, this blog will help you to understand the benefits of the public cloud.

Save Money

One of the major bonuses of the public cloud is that it is budget friendly and there are savings to be made. By leveraging the shared infrastructure that is provided by top cloud providers, businesses can reduce any IT expenditure, freeing up resources to invest elsewhere in the organisation.

With the public cloud, organisations don’t have to manage and maintain their own software and hardware, which can be expensive. Cloud providers, take care of this for you, reducing your operational expenses too.

Another benefit of the public cloud is that you only pay for what you need, providing your business with better flexibility and control over their IT costs with the ability to scale up or down in line with business trajectory. Public cloud is also offered on a pay-as-you go pricing model, so businesses can control their expenses easily.

Scale Up or Down

Public cloud’s ability to scale up and down offers businesses ability to flex up or down efficiently, helping to respond to changing demands and business requirements. In addition, organisations that use public cloud can access a wide range of resources on demand including storage, processing power and memory. This allows busy IT departments to add or remove resources as needed, without having to purchase or maintain any additional hardware or software and be agile at getting the IT Infrastructure up and running.

Accessibility

Since the pandemic, remote working is high on most businesses agendas as they look to retain employees. With the public clouds ability to allow organisations to access computing resources, tools and services anywhere to where they can connect to the internet, employees can work from anywhere at any time making it a great solution for IT Managers. According to finder.com 37% of British adults worked remotely in 2022 that’s the equivalent of nearly 20 million people. Having a cloud strategy in place for your organisations not only helps to support colleagues who work remotely, it also improves collaboration within teams who are able to share and access the same information and resources as and when it is needed, no matter their location helping business continuity.

Security

Many of our customers, when first looking to adopt a public cloud strategy asking our team ‘Is it secure?’ ‘Is my data going to be safe?’ One of the key advantages of public cloud is that you get to benefit from its creators’ investments into its security and the way that they adopt a range of measures and controls to protect customers data and their systems.

By leveraging the expertise and the investment of public cloud platforms, organisations can reduce their own risk. Public cloud organisations have invested interest in providing their customers with the best security technologies including encryption, firewalls and more to protect what is most important to their customers. They also must be compliant with industry standards and regulations.