Work from your home office? Try Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing provides a convenient, secure, and affordable approach to managing your company’s data, files, and software applications. It serves as a smart solution for businesses that seek:
- A work-from-home arrangement for all or partial staff
- Multiple business locations
- Off-site employees
- Teams that share files and applications
- Aging infrastructure or servers that need to be updated
- Changing compliance standards
- A recent or future merger with another company
CloudSmart IT employs a holistic approach to swiftly integrate your operations into the cloud with minimal downtime. Additionally, we adopt a phased onboarding strategy for your staff, ensuring a seamless transition to cloud AVD for every team member.
We’re here to take the headaches and mysteries out of business tech with reliable managed IT support services and expert IT consulting designed with your business in mind. We’re proud to serve businesses in the Nashville area, including finance, manufacturing, healthcare, non-profits, and faith-based organizations.
Leveraging our extensive industry knowledge across multiple sectors, we offer top-notch and diverse expertise to set up your modern office with the most suitable information technology for your unique situation and business objectives. Whether the aim is to enhance customer service or increase sales, it’s crucial for businesses to have technology configured correctly, serving its intended purpose as a helpful asset.
What is Cloud Computing?
Exploring the benefits of Cloud Computing for your business’s data management? Cloud Computing services entail storing data outside your physical location, enabling accessible internet use. Cloud services store applications, servers, databases, and software offsite in “cyberspace,” ensuring complete access from any location or device with an internet connection. Cloud desktops provide an affordable, secure solution to maintain agile teams, manageable budgets, and robust security for numerous businesses nationwide. Opting for cloud computing proves to be a strategic alternative to housing all your company’s data on a large server within your space, demanding maintenance, hardware upkeep, and increased utility costs for power and cooling. Cloud computing services offer security, speed, and customization equivalent to a dedicated physical server, differing only in data storage in a virtual space managed by your cloud host, rather than a large piece of equipment at your location. Examples of cloud computing hosts include Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure (our cloud partner), and Amazon Web Services. CloudSmart IT partners with Microsoft Azure for comprehensive cloud computing services. As your managed IT services partner, we ensure a seamless transition of all your data to the cloud, proficiently manage your network, and facilitate easy access to your Azure Virtual Desktop from any location.
What benefits does Cloud Computing offer for reducing IT costs in my business?
Opting for Cloud support services is a common choice for companies of all sizes, driven by various factors. Cloud solutions have evolved into an essential tool over the last decade, aiding businesses in staying agile, reducing costs, and remaining competitive in their industries. Shifting your services to the cloud eradicates the need to invest in hardware and software. Additionally, you can do away with racks of servers and the constant need for electricity to power and cool them. This shift also eliminates the requirement for in-house IT experts to manage the infrastructure.
Considering the productivity advantages of Cloud Computing?
The elimination of your on-site or hosted data center relieves your IT team from vital management tasks like software patching, hardware setup, and systems monitoring. Many of these tasks become unnecessary with cloud services, allowing your team to redirect their time toward achieving more significant business goals.
How can Cloud Computing increase reliability?
Cloud computing makes data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity easier and less expensive because data can be mirrored at multiple redundant sites on the cloud provider’s network. Most cloud computing services are provided on demand. Vast amounts of computing resources can be provisioned in minutes, giving businesses a lot of flexibility without the pressure of capacity planning. You’ll receive the right amount of IT resources exactly when needed.
Exploring CloudSmart IT’s Cloud Desktops
Scalability
In Cloud Computing, you can rapidly adjust your storage and software licenses to match business needs without the requirement for hardware investment.
Automatic Updates
Storing your data in the cloud enables automatic updates for your software and applications, ensuring you always have the most up-to-date tools at your fingertips.
Portability
Working from anywhere is made possible by Cloud Computing services, giving you and your employees the freedom to adjust to your company's changing needs.
Remote Workers
Empower your workforce to work from anywhere, on any device, at any time. Implement a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy to reduce costs and streamline hardware procurement effectively.
Cost Savings
Cost control becomes more manageable with cloud computing, as you only pay for what you use. CloudSmart IT structures Cloud Computing as a predictable operating expense, seamlessly fitting into your company's monthly budget, alleviating the burden of a significant upfront capital investment for building and maintaining a physical server.
Along with SaaS, VOIP, Network Security and more, Cloud Computing can be an important part of your customized managed IT support services with CloudSmart IT.
Explore the Potential of the Cloud
We’ve made cloud computing even more accessible and cost-effective through CloudSmart IT’s Key2Cloud option. This enables you and your team to access your cloud desktop with increased ease and security from any computer, anywhere.
Plug. Click. Instant Desktop.
Here’s how it works: CloudSmart IT’s Key2Cloud is a USB drive that plugs into any computer, customized and fully loaded with everything you need to access your data on the cloud. Plug it in, click the cloud icon, and get to work. No downloads, no special apps, no hassle.
Added Security
Remote management, activation, and deactivation of individual Key2Cloud keys are effortlessly executed in response to events like lost or stolen keys, staffing changes, regulatory updates, and more.
Even More Cost Savings
By not requiring dedicated support for your computer’s operating system, Key2Cloud enables us to provide cloud computing at a simple, fixed cost per user.
Remote Workers
Enable your workforce to work from anywhere, on any device, and at any time. Implementing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy is an effective way to cut costs and simplify hardware procurement.
Use Any Computer
Your employees can use their Key2Cloud to access their work desktop from any computer. In addition to remote work flexibility, this opens the door to "BYOD" (Bring Your Own Device) incentives that can save your company money and keep your employees happy, too.
Contact us now for a conversation with an IT Expert
Our professional team of IT experts in Middle Tennessee understands the unique technical needs that come with running an entire business. We offer everything you need in IT support to keep your day-to-day operations running smoothly. If you’re looking for specialized ongoing IT support from a team you can trust, we are ready to help. Book a call to discover how we can best suit your unique professional needs.