Protecting your business from the impact of data failures and breaches should be high on your list of priorities. If the thought of losing data or being locked out of your systems isn’t enough to strike fear into the heart of your management team, consider these consequences:
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As part of the Access Group, Access Cloud Hosting & Services is a provider of infrastructure solutions to mid-sized UK organisations. It helps customers become more productive and resilient, providing secure and scalable cloud hosting services that transform the way businesses work, from software and application hosting through to backup services and disaster recovery solutions. Access has data centres across the world, including in the EU and US. The international security of the data Access handles is of paramount importance to the company.
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Supply chains have long been a crucial part of almost any business’s processes. Ensuring that you have the right materials and items to complete your work is more than a question of effective sourcing: it’s also about forward planning and adequate data-sharing. It can be disastrous if things go wrong.
There have been plenty of technological developments in the supply chain management field, such as modelling software designed to locate where efficiencies can take place. However, emerging cloud technology has an increasingly essential role to play in developing optimised and efficient supply chains.
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The finance industry has a long history of adopting pioneering methods and using cutting-edge hardware, software and computing methodologies to full effect. If you work in the sector, you will also know that before making use of any new techniques and tools, security and data safety must be rock solid.
Due to the highly competitive nature of the finance industry, adapting to new ways of doing things can mean the difference between success and failure for a business. The fact that cloud solutions are making such an impact must be taken into account if your business operates in related fields, and the reasons for the large-scale changes need to be understood.
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The recruitment sector is one of the most cost-conscious areas in business: staying profitable in this highly competitive market means always spending cash wisely and keeping an extremely close eye on operations. So it’s no wonder that for leading recruitment firms, staff productivity is under constant scrutiny. Clearly you will be doing everything possible to encourage your people to be focused, diligent and energetic in their work - but is there more you could do as a business leader to help them achieve better results from their working day?
If you haven’t done so already, migrating your IT infrastructure to the cloud can make a tangible difference to business productivity levels. This is not simply an IT decision which only impacts your operations behind the scenes. It’s an important step that will offer excellent frontline and bottom line benefits too. Here’s why.
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There are many reasons why businesses are moving business operations to the cloud, with convenience and security are among the top considerations.
Increasing your competitive edge may not come to mind when considering cloud-based business solutions, but it should be. By thinking strategically about the features offered by advanced cloud hosting solutions, you can get ahead of your competitors in several ways.
Businesses of all sizes are using their migration to the cloud to reassess their approach to governance and turn it into a business advantage. They are even relishing new and challenging changes to data regulation, as cloud-based business operations can be used to make compliance with these regulations easier and more transparent, giving cloud-based enterprises a distinct advantage over many competitors.
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Whether you are responsible for the IT operations of a large company or an SME, or you are a sole trader with no one to answer to but yourself, you still have to abide by rules and regulations set by governments and higher authorities.
When it comes to data sovereignty, this is something of a minefield as the careful stewardship of someone else's personal details are not to be taken lightly.
The recent introduction of GDPR rules impacted on any business that held data on third parties, and you will already be aware of how much work it entailed in order to be in full compliance. However, with Brexit only a few months away, the important issue for businesses now is how it will affect data sovereignty and what you need to do about it.
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One of our cloud hosting experts recently ran some IOPS workload tests on the big hyperscalers (Azure & AWS). The aim was to locate the best place to place mixed workload VMs and see some real world, achievable IOPs based on a consistent set of tests.
In addition, we’ve included a converged cloud for comparison running on SSD and a dedicated SAS SAN; this is on the Access Alto Public Cloud platform on their UK region running on VMware.
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“Green IT” is a term for the plethora of environmental benefits that the cloud and other IT services can realise for society.
There is a growing need to process, analyse and store masses of big data and support increasingly complex workloads and applications.
Traditional data centres are already expending vast amounts of energy to complete these tasks, and there is mounting pressure from business, industry and governments to adopt more efficient management solutions.
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Cloud computing has revolutionised the way we do business and how we interact with data and services in our daily lives. Instead of running applications from software downloaded onto physical systems and machines, cloud computing uses services stored online to provide these same applications to anywhere that has an internet connection.
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