Hybrid working has grown and become a normality for many businesses around the globe, and the implementation of cloud-based infrastructures has become routine as well.
The cloud can service a business in many positive ways when it comes to hybrid working, from helping with operational agility to creating more robust security to name a few.
Where previously, the change to home working would have been made difficult, the cloud can actually help to facilitate this transition, and help you to consistently manage the daily demands of your business away from the office environment, whilst keeping your data secure.
In this article, we will show you the key ways in which a cloud-based infrastructure can be beneficial for your company to use whilst your staff are in the midst of hybrid working.
1. Improved Network Security
Adopting the cloud into your business model can massively help to ensure the proper security of your business, its sensitive data, and documents whilst away from your office network.
As an industry standard, cloud services have security measures installed such as VPN’s and application firewalls in the form of two-factor authentication to ensure a high level of data security.
Having safety protocols like this can be extremely useful when working away from the office, as your employees are exposed, and the risk of cyber threats is increased. As a result, this elevated security can help to maintain a high level of quality assurance when handling important customer or business information in unsecure settings.
2. Consistent Data Backups
The cloud also offers consistent data back-ups which can be useful for varying reasons.
Sometimes, your company may experience a period of unexpected downtime such as power cuts or system failures due to higher demand, which consequently can result in loss of data and documents.
Having a data back-up feature can help to ensure that you can continue to work optimally during these unexpected instances and ensure that your most recent data and documents are still accessible.
Regarding its usefulness where hybrid working is concerned, consistently having your most recent version of data backed up to the cloud will help with the constant transition from home to office working.
The risk of losing any recent work that staff may have worked on will now be mitigated, and this seamless transition can help to promote productivity in both working environments, as staff can very quickly pick up where they left off.
3. Reduced Operating Costs
From a financial perspective, utilising the cloud whilst hybrid working can help in reducing your operating costs.
The migration to the cloud can force you to evaluate the software that you are currently using, and streamline what programmes you are actually using, and are beneficial on a daily basis.
Often, companies can become saturated with the amount of software and programmes that they have, but in fact rarely use. Reorganising your existing programmes will help to avoid transitioning your whole infrastructure on to the cloud, which could cost you a substantial amount of money, and instead only transition what your staff will actually use and save you some long term costs.
4. Cloud Scalability
A huge benefit for hybrid workers utilising the cloud is its scalability. The cloud helps businesses to make their network infrastructure more malleable and agile depending on the needs of a company at any given time. Usually, this depends on what their customer demand is like, or whether they experience seasonal spikes.
Regarding hybrid working, scalability is important to better service your staff. For your employees who will now occasionally be working from home, you will need to consider the fact that they may need more storage space and may work from a variety of devices which require a greater bandwidth and network usage.
This usage will obviously change when working from the office, however if your business is not well-equipped to deal with this change whilst staff are out of the office, this can have an impact on their ability to execute their normal duties.
The cloud will allow you to upscale and downscale your resources such as network usage and storage to cater to the needs of your business. When your employees are working in the office, you can simply downscale your resources until you see fit to upscale them again.
How Can We Help?
Cloud computing is capable of helping nearly all industries in some way to improve their efficiency and help to improve staff capabilities.
Especially where many employees are now home working in some capacity, the use of the cloud and its extensive features allow this form of working to be made much easier.
Here at Deans, it is important to us that we can offer you the best cloud solution that will serve your business and its staff to the highest standard. To do this, we use Amber Vault cloud services to ensure this.
Amber Vault offers several scalable cloud services including cloud hosting for your critical business operations, secure cloud back-up solutions and many other valuable products. All of the services can be tailored to meet the individual requirements of your business to ensure the most optimal solution for your company.
Take a look at our Amber Vault services here: https://ambervault.deansplc.co.uk/
Some of our other cloud services can be found here:
Cloud Accounting & MRP Software: https://www.deansplc.co.uk/cloud-accounting-software/
Cloud Accounting ERP Software: https://www.deansplc.co.uk/cloud-accounting-erp-software/
If you’d like to talk to us about what our Amber Vault services can do for you, or any of our other cloud solutions, get in contact with us here.