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Understand the Different Cloud Options for Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy
/in Blog, Business Continuity /by Chris HigginsEffective backup requires more than simply making another copy of a file. You need to track the files you’ve backed up, provide appropriate security, and know how to restore them when needed. If you’re planning to backup files in the cloud, it’s important to know how to use the different options to get the right level of protection.
Cloud Storage
Cloud storage simply provides a remote filesystem for you to use. How you use the available space is up to you; depending on the cloud provider’s capabilities, you may be able to access it as a local filesystem. Unlike local filesystems, the capacity is unlimited, and you pay only for the capacity you use. An additional advantage of cloud storage is that cloud providers usually have several regions, allowing you to store data in a different geographic location.
Cloud Sync
Cloud sync copies folders from your local filesystem to a filesystem in the cloud. This is often used to share files so they can be used from anywhere, making them production data rather than a backup. Depending on the vendor, cloud sync may or may not allow you to access older versions of files.
Cloud Backup
Cloud backup operates like traditional backup software, but with the cloud rather than a local filesystem as the target. The software operates on a schedule to backup changes to the cloud, with historic versions preserved. Cloud backup can be implemented with backup software running in the cloud or in your local data center. Cloud backup give you more control than cloud sync with respect to when and how data is duplicated. Cloud backup often uses compression and deduplication to reduce the space and cost of the backed-up data; it may also apply encryption for security.
Cloud Disaster Recovery
It’s important to note that getting data out of the cloud is often more difficult and more expensive than getting data into the cloud. Cloud disaster recovery provides additional support needed to restore files and virtual machine images in case of an outage. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) uses high levels of automation to bring systems online in the cloud rapidly.
Understanding the different capabilities between these cloud services is key to implementing an effective backup and disaster recovery strategy in the cloud. CCS Technology Group combines its cloud expertise with our business continuity insight to develop, implement, monitor, and support effective cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solutions. Contact us to learn more about how your backup can leverage the cloud to ensure a smooth backup and disaster recovery process for your business.
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How to Improve Efficiency with a New ERP Solution
/in Blog, ERP Software /by Chris HigginsA modern ERP system can help businesses to better communicate goals, objectives, and strategies.
Today, there is technology available that offers a multitude of opportunities to increase the efficiency of business operations, along with the effectiveness of the company’s workforce. When operating at maximum potential, an organization will have more time to invest in marketing the company, which in turn increases profitability.
ERP systems provide business owners and leaders with peace of mind in knowing they have the tools to overcome day-to-day challenges, such as executing business strategy. These tools empower companies by giving them what they need to prosper and grow.
By automating processes that come with the use of business productivity software, all areas of the business experience are smoother and benefit from more timely execution — this allows employees to spend more time on key priorities!
There are other significant benefits that arise due to the implementation of ERP software, including:
Employee Productivity
With modern ERP solutions, leadership can more easily monitor and track the progress of staff, as well as every phase of a project to ensure benchmarks are being met. Tracking step-by-step progress keeps everyone in the know before critical issues can offset progress.
Managers are better able to realize when an employee needs assistance to meet goals; they can offer additional coaching or mentoring as needed to ensure that the project the employee is working on does not derail, but instead stays on-track and is delivered on time.
Team Collaboration
Team sites and employee portals help project teams unite across the organization, regardless of where employees are stationed or located. Even different departments of an organization can be better connected to achieve success on a particular project. It helps to eliminate obstacles that can hinder communications by ensuring team members are on the same page.
ERP software creates the opportunity for project team members to reach out to others within the organization and to provide additional assistance or insight, as well as to tap into other “experts” within the organization, who can provide answers to the issues the project team faces.
Improved Communications and Problem Solving
Putting company information in one easy-to-access place helps leadership to better circulate that information across the organization. Managers are better able to express the company’s business strategy with ease, which can prove helpful when handling performance appraisals. An online system can help communicate consistently around measurement and goals, ensuring the company’s overall objectives are addressed to all team members.
With greater visibility into leaderships’ expectations for the workforce, there is a greater likelihood that a more open environment will be created and nurtured. Employees will benefit from being a part of the larger vision and having a greater understanding of how the goals of an individual employee or team fit into the wider-ranging overall business objective of the company.
Analyze Business Performance More Easily
Advanced reporting options and business analysis capabilities are available in today’s ERP software solutions. This helps business owners and the C-Suite gain a better understanding of how the business is performing, key market trends to be aware of, and customer preferences.
Accessing analytical reports and performance metrics give both employees and management the insights they need to work together and tweak strategies that are underperforming, and to find solutions that bring promise for future growth. The ERP system can also play a vital role in refining inventory management, working to tie together key metrics across the organization.
Finding the Best Solution
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to ERP systems. There are a variety of solution types that can be tailored to satisfy individual needs for certain functions or to meet the requirements of a particular industry. Whether a company is looking for software to address accounting and customer relationship management (CRM) needs, or the nuances of industries like manufacturing or healthcare, it’s quite likely modern software can address a company’s unique challenges.
In essence, the term enterprise planning software was introduced to describe a broader system that integrated a variety of applications, many of those are mentioned above. Decision makers should be thorough as they research the options — identifying a handful of top performers — before deciding what software to invest in.
Getting Started
Business leaders that are ready to improve efficiency and boost their bottom line should consider implementing a cloud-based ERP solution. Acumatica offers a Modern CFO ERP Buyer’s Guide to assist leaders in their search for the best possible ERP solution.
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Additional ERP Resources
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Are You Fully Committed to Using Cloud?
/in Blog, Cloud /by Chris HigginsWhat does it take to make a full commitment to the cloud? Some might say it means moving all your applications to the cloud and eliminating your on-premises data center. But there’s another step to making a complete transition to the cloud: using cloud native applications.
Cloud Native Is Built to Leverage Cloud’s Advantages
It’s entirely possible to move one of your virtual machines off a physical server in your data center and drop it onto a physical server in the cloud. That’s the “lift and shift” model of cloud migration. It’s quick and simple, but applications designed to run in the data center can have limitations that don’t let them take advantage of cloud capabilities like automatic scaling.
Cloud native applications are designed and built in ways that let them get the maximum use of the cloud’s flexibility and availability. They’re typically built as containers, which allows them to be easily deployed on any available instance. That’s often combined with microservices, which allows them to easily scale. An agile, DevOps development approach makes it possible to rapidly deploy new builds.
Advantages of Going Cloud Native
Building applications using the cloud native approach offers several advantages. It’s agile, allowing businesses to rapidly respond to change. It can be heavily automated, allowing changes to be make quickly without the time and risk of manual intervention. Scaling can happen automatically. The microservices approach provides great flexibility and allows services to be used to meet needs the original developers didn’t foresee.
Those are beneficial characteristics on their own, but for smart companies, those benefits combine to create an even bigger benefit: competitive advantage. The ability to respond faster gives businesses a leg up against their competition. You can rapidly make major changes in technology to respond to new opportunities or changes in the business environment.
Disadvantages of Going Cloud Native
Given those benefits, why would you not go cloud native? The biggest reason is that it’s highly disruptive. Migrating to cloud is always a disruptive process, even if you lift-and-shift. If you choose to go cloud native, the disruption increases exponentially. Developers need to learn a new way of thinking about the applications they build, and operations needs to adapt to new ways of deploying, monitoring, and supporting them.
In addition, going cloud native means a slower transition to the cloud. Cloud migration planning always requires assessing whether workloads should be moved to the cloud at all; choosing to go cloud native requires a second level of analysis to decide whether each individual workload should be moved as is or rebuilt as a cloud native application. Once you decide to remake an application, you need additional analysis to identify the tools and design the technical architecture. Then executing the work of making an application cloud native can mean the cloud migration timeline stretches out much longer than the lift and shift approach.
Finally, if you have concerns about vendor lock-in, those issues are even more significant when you go cloud native. If you build a cloud by lifting and shifting virtual machines (VMs), it’s relatively straightforward to lift and shift those VMs over to another cloud provider. But when you go cloud native, you completely tie your application to your cloud provider’s available tools and API. Those won’t be the same over at another cloud provider, so moving to a different cloud is a bigger project.
There are many important decisions to make as you transition to cloud. CCS Technology Services can help you think through them to design and implement a cloud strategy that meets your business needs. Contact us to learn about our cloud services.
Additional Cloud Resources
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