Five Apps Any Sme Can Safely Move To The Cloud

SMEs can strike the right balance between costs and security by moving these five IT domains to the Cloud

- Adeesh Sharma

A CXO at any mid-sized enterprise is looking at the cloud to digitally transform his enterprise. Public clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform offer a whole host of services that could sound overwhelming to an SME. These three top cloud service providers are right now not just trying to get your IT budget pie but also convince small to mid-sized enterprises to move more and more of their on-premises infrastructure to their datacenters.

However, some of the SMEs might be doing just about well with their legacy infrastructure and do not feel the need to invest more on a new cloud platform. Others could have security concerns on top of their minds before they take the plunge. So, based on current preferences of SMEs and trying to strike a balance between costs and security, here are five IT domains we feel you can safely consider moving to the Cloud.

Storage backups

Data is something enterprises are never ever going to be short of. It keeps growing humungously, through the use of various applications and along with its increasing size comes the need to store it efficiently. In the event of an outage, your ability to recover line of business (LoB) apps and their data depends on how efficiently your backup and restore platform works.