Business is being digitalized daily, and one of the most
important thing grows with business is data and that need a safe, reliable and
secure storage. Let’s discuss the idea of cloud storage for business with its
Bright and dark side.
What is Cloud
storage?
Cloud storage is
storing your data on remotely located server’s data centers and makes it
accessible from all the location, no matter where the company is where the
branches are. Storing data on cloud is Safer and secure and free from physical
damage.
Beside this we may
need to face the loss of confidentiality and remotely storing of Sensitive data
is sometime not preferable.
A group of 5
employee of a large economic business unit; all have to store maintain some
data from tax information to future plan
new idea, employee details and so on,. Especially after 2010 cloud word made
enormous changes in the mind of individual especially mobile user and business.
Storing these data on cloud is far greater idea and too economical and easy to
sustain with it.
Why Business should use the cloud for Business?
Capacity
Storing data on
cloud allow user or business to easily expand the storage of their
personal/business files. For example a company started with 5 members may
require few hundred MB of data but latter it may be grow and demands may grow
up-to several GBs.
Cloud storing
company can easily extend your business storage data on cloud and it’s you
don’t have to worry or upgrade the servers time to time.
Security
If you send any
secrete information to the company or any other members, depending upon the
network type, it may be risky. But cloud storage providers take best measure to
layer your business and data with latest security protocol and encryption. All
you need to just send the file location on cloud and other member can access it
by providing their details.
Disaster protection
Due to any of natural
or manmade disaster it is quite possible that server can be damaged or lost, in
case of no Backup, all your data will be just lost. In case you’ve saved the
data on cloud, the cloud company takes great measures to prevent this kind of mishap
and in that case too they have multiple redundancies of data on many other data
centers on the globe.
Employee calibration
Because the Data is
stored on cloud, employee can access the data on cloud anytime wherever they
have access to internet. They can work together on same file and make those
files complete even when at home.
Why Business may avoid the cloud Storage?
Sensitive information:
Sometime companies
has valuable records to be saved on the servers and if they save them on the
cloud, they don’t know even where those data are stored physically, it feels
little insecure to put those sensitive data on internet.
Internet reliability
It is not possible
to move the larger data on cloud especially when internet bandwidth is low. Because
of all those business and data transmission access is completely dependent on
Internet. All will be functional until internet or connection is working.
Bottom line
Data storage policy
on Cloud can be much more beneficial and convenient, moreover companies can
make the strong strategy to store the sensitive data on their local servers
with multiple copies to different location and accessible through VPN so that
it may be safe even after the disasters.
