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Mark Adams , Co-founder , Inevidesk

COMPANIES SEEKING

CLOUD-BASED SOLUTIONS

NEED TO ENSURE A CAREFUL

EVALUATION PROCESS

OCCURS TO UNDERSTAND

HOW IT WOULD IMPACT THEIR BUSINESS AND HOW MUCH THEY WOULD ULTIMATELY BE SPENDING IN

THE LONG-TERM . expensive than initially anticipated . This is especially true in professions that generate large data and need high-performance computing , such as engineers , graphic designers , VFX and architects .

Holding on to the technical core of your business

What ’ s worse , is that when companies move their infrastructure over to Microsoft or Amazon , management is mostly taken out of the hands of businesses and they start to lose control . This is because to underpin these services a few select behemoth vendors buy up a vast amount of the world ’ s digital resources .

Taking the hardware out of the hands of end-users and IT management away from companies not only leads to the degradation of IT skillsets in-house but also a feeling of losing control over the technical core of their business operations , and leaving business end-users at the mercy of these big vendors ( further entrenching already dangerous monopolies ). But , tech providers aimed to do away with skillsets and experience that would increase reliance on their services in the long-term ; essentially by making it harder for organisations to take the technical core of their businesses back . This ultimately puts them in a position where they will be forced to pay whatever fees the vendors wish .

Companies seeking cloud-based solutions need to ensure a careful evaluation process occurs to understand how it would impact their business and how much they would ultimately be spending in the long-term . By approaching the matter in this way , SMEs can try and avoid giving up the technical core of their business to tech giants .

High cost doesn ’ t mean 100 % uptime

When you ’ re paying more for services , it would be natural for SMEs to presume that big vendors can maintain 100 % uptime , particularly since they market limitless resources and multiple global points of presence . But this isn ’ t true .

In fact , there have been many instances where big tech services have experienced significant outages , causing widespread disruptions for organisations around the world . The larger and more complex an infrastructure , often the harder it is to identify problems when they occur . Scale and complexity are not the friends of troubleshooting . When the big guys go down , it ’ s likely to be a lot longer than a problem in a private cloud . And you are