Top 5 Reasons why businesses adopting Oracle Cloud
JANUARY 01, 2018 08:20 AM
As the years go by, more and more organizations are moving towards the cutting-edge cloud technology. It has been ascertained that not only security but also data modernization and reduction in the operating cost are among several reasons for companies to put their best foot forward in the cloud. Keeping in mind the current situation, leaning towards flexible software has become mandatory where this technology is effectively apt in accessing from any part of the world.
To dive in a little deep into the narrative, let's look at the top 5 reasons as to why more and more organizations are moving their essential data to the Cloud.
1. Flexibility
Oracle Cloud services offers immense mobility and flexibility when it comes to the cloud computing. In the past few years, the workspace has grown beyond the physical office space. Employees can work flexibly from home or any other remote location. This in turn results in a significant reduction in the operating cost of the business. Cloud computing also helps employers monitor their business operations efficiently.
2. Data Security
Data Security breach is a major business risk and maintaining personally identifiable information (PII) is a huge responsibility. Any breach in sensitive data can cost business heavily in terms of lawsuits and reimbursements. Traditionally, businesses must manage themselves the data storage and adding different layers of security, encryptions. However, cloud technology provides the industry leading data security measures built in the cloud platform itself. Most of the cloud service providers complies with industry standards in the data protection, data security field. Thus, cloud technology frees businesses from the need of constantly upgrading data security models, patches etc. These tasks are taken care of by the cloud service provider, enabling businesses to focus more on their core businesses.
3. Multiple Options
Oracle Cloud has different delivery models like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Businesses can adopt a cloud services offering as per their business requirements and cloud readiness. One of the most important benefit of a cloud service is a subscription-based service. Businesses can subscribe to services they need and pay only for what they use.
4. Less IT Work
Oracle Cloud Applications is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering by Oracle. This enables businesses to get rid of humungous IT infrastructure including physical servers, data centers, disaster recovery sites. The Involvement of IT support is reduced significantly. OS update patches, security patches are pushed automatically by the cloud service provider at a regular interval or ad-hoc.
5. In -Built data backup solutions
Traditionally, businesses must invest in data backup solutions, storing and security data backups media etc. Oracle Cloud provides various cloud data backup solutions. Businesses need to select the appropriate option after considering sensitivity of the data, need of accessibility, need of data retrieval. Oracle cloud provides tiered pricing for different data backup options. There are also some cloud systems that offer backup in case of any disaster so that your data is recovered immediately.
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