Comparing Cloud Infrastructure Services – Things Cloud Service Companies Should Offer
According to McAfee’s cloud computing findings published on Business Wire, 87% of companies experience business acceleration through cloud services. On the other hand, 52% of companies experience better security in the cloud than on-premise IT environments.
What about the cloud’s penetration in the Japanese business space? According to one of Statista’s reports generated out of a survey conducted from October to December 2018, around 33% of enterprises in Japan have begun implementing cloud computing across all their departments.
S0, Statista’s report indicates that around 1/3rd companies in Japan have started to adopt cloud computing, and are slated to reap its long-running benefits.
Of course, cloud computing and its sustainable benefits continue to encourage business across the world to upgrade their business processes cloud. Cloud has become an essential modern-day business requirement. It is because cloud saves cost, proves competitive, and helps you save a lot of time and resources you’ve been otherwise spending on maintaining the age-old IT environment.
So, if you are a company operating in Japan, and elsewhere around the world, it is time you shift to cloud and benefit from the competencies of the modern-day technology.
However, to ensure you get every benefit of adopting the cloud, you need a comprehensive cloud service company that offers you every essential service that comes under the cloud umbrella. So, while discussing your cloud needs and before you begin to migrate your existing business processes to the cloud, you must check if your cloud computing partnering provides the following services and solutions.
10 Things your Cloud Computing Services should provide you
From infrastructural design to cloud support, competitive pricing, and seamless transition to the cloud, your cloud computing must provide the below ten services to help you get every possible cloud benefit.
1. Cloud Consulting
You must search for a cloud computing partner, rather than a technical expert and service provider. The idea is to leverage the cloud to the business’s benefit, and which is where cloud consulting in the initial and later stages of the project comes into the picture. Your cloud partner should guide you on what will work, and what won’t in the context of your business when it comes to cloud adoption.
2. Cloud Setup and Infrastructural Design
Cloud setup and infrastructural design comprise a few significant elements, including data center setup, High-Performance Computing, and multi-Layer security. Speaking of data centers, you must have them across several locations of your company to help you get services from the nearest one, and enable least-latency network. With this arrangement, if one fails, the other one can support.
High-Performance Computing allows you to leverage real-time performance with multiple users and heavier applications. Lastly, various layer security helps you manage the security aspect of your network, host, and physical setup. Other factors your cloud provider must provide, include Intrusion Detection and Prevention System, access control system, multi-factor authentication, etc.
3. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Your cloud computing provider must possess the capability to help your business recover from a wide range of potential disruptions. In this view, some elements that determine the BCDR standard of your cloud provider include identifying potential risks, preventive and curative measures, infrastructural redundancy, and data replication at various stages.
4. Data Backup
Data backup facility, its pace, and utility are other essential concerns constituting your choice of a service provider and, at the same time, determinants of your prospective cloud partner’s capabilities. Some other questions, or points to evaluate the cloud computing service provider, include how secure the backup mechanism is and its restoration process.
5. Cloud Support
The best proposal in this regard is 24/7 cloud support that assures you and your team members of seamless business operations on the technical front throughout the week and the weekends. Besides, the mode of support also matters. Ideally, your cloud provider must offer you support across all the available modes, and especially the one you want, including chat, email, or call.
Hosting providers offering support confined to a few instances, and only during their own working hours, must not form your choice, unless your requirement isn’t as extensive, and your working hours are the same as theirs or getting a round the clock support is out of your budget.
6. Service Level Agreement
For your custom requirements, your cloud provider must prepare an exclusive SLA that entails all the terms and conditions, service standards, etc. to ensure optimized cloud for your business. You must go through the SLA document, and discuss things with the provider before beginning the project.
7. System Uptime
Another fundamental idea that drives the decision of hiring a cloud computing service provider is optimizing the availability of the system. In other words, it is increasing the system uptime to enjoy interrupted system availability and continual business operations.
Again, expecting 100% system uptime is an unreasonable expectation, as none of the service providers can, and should give you such fairytale assurances.
System uptimes, in terms of the number of hours per week, and downtime per years are calculated based on the percentage of uptime the provider commits. The best cloud service providers commit a downtime of lesser than 6 minutes every year, which, in percentage, is around 99.9999%.
8. Cloud Computing Service Pricing
Falling for excessively low pricing is quite common. However, you must remember that you are about to rely on your service provider to shift your business processes to the cloud. You must not keep the price as the only criteria, although yes, you must keep an eye on it to control the overall IT costs. Ideally, you must first review all the services and then come to the price negotiation part to strike a better deal.
9. Cloud Transition
Transition to cloud comprises some fundamental elements such as data migration and setting up applications on the cloud. These services must constitute a part of the standard cloud computing proposal, and your service provider must not charge you anything extra to provide them. The key is to migrate and transit to the cloud seamlessly and comprehensively without any hiccups and data loss.
10. Facilitation of a Private Server
Based on your requirement, your cloud computing service provider must be in a position to provide you a private server. Private servers prove helpful in dealing with business processes that include very sensitive and confidential data or demand higher performance processing. So ideally, your provider must fulfill your requirement of getting a private server for your business.
Fideltech – Comprehensive Cloud Computing Service Provider in Japan
Fideltech has been working for over a decade as a comprehensive cloud computing service provider on Japan’s business horizon. The company provides custom cloud solutions, ensures the highest levels of data security, and adherence to security protocols. Besides, it employs cloud specialists that ensure optimal cloud computing efficiency, comprehensive migration, and seamless transition.
Connect with Fideltech at 03-6261-3309 or write an email at salesfidel@fideltech.com to discuss your cloud computing requirements with the company’s cloud experts.
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