Cloud solutions

90% of the world’s data has been created in the past two years. This flood of data means that local disks and systems are reaching their limits. Cloud computing means that data and services are no longer housed or provided on the local network, but are instead in an outsourced data centre (the “cloud”).

Cloud computing allows network capacities, software and services, data storage, and especially computing capacity to adjust dynamically to the needs of users.

Benefits of a cloud

• self-assignment of cloud services by users (self-service provisioning and as-needed availability)
• scalability that decouples usage fluctuations and infrastructure limitations
• reliability and fault tolerance that guarantee defined quality standards for users’ IT infrastructure on a persistent basis
• optimisation and consolidation offering efficiency and economy in adapting to ever-changing environmental standards
• quality assurance and controls for continuous monitoring without burdening users (QoS: quality of service)

Challenges

Many users worry about the security of their data when placed on cloud services. smart outcome has specialized in data security, including for cloud-based data, and will be glad to assist.