You’d be a bit stunned if a business leader sat in front of you and said, “What if we just moved our business a little slower?” Moving slower is out of the question as your competitors find new ways to become more agile every day. Unfortunately, enterprises can’t trust legacy IT infrastructures to meet agile demands.
Rather than trying to force legacy systems to adapt to a faster business world, enterprises are embracing the cloud to succeed in digital transformation. The cloud helps businesses be more agile; cloud infrastructure is more flexible than traditional IT; and, most importantly, the cloud comes with an attractive pay structure.
With so many benefits of the cloud, is on-premises IT destined to become obsolete? You may rely more on the cloud every year, but the benefits of on-premises infrastructure are both undeniable and irreplaceable.
Why You Can’t Live Without On-Premises Infrastructure
Small businesses can trust more of their IT resources to the cloud, but there are many advantages of on-premises infrastructure that enterprises can’t ignore. Even as you adopt cloud infrastructure, you’ll likely still use on-premises infrastructure for:
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Control Over Resources
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Regulatory Compliance
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Application Accessibility
These are just a few advantages of maintaining on-premises infrastructure. The challenge shouldn’t be choosing between the cloud and on-premises infrastructure, though. It should be finding a solution that provides the best of both worlds.
A Compromise- Hybrid Solutions that Leverage Both Infrastructure and Cloud
There is no one size fits approach to supporting data storage. The needs of each organization vary by size, industry, and workload. Finding an optimal solution that leverages both physical infrastructure and the cloud is what most companies have done over the past several years.
It’s essential to work with a partner like American Digital, who can help your organization assess your current environment and determine what solutions best fit your needs. We will work with your team to decide which applications and workloads work best in a data center leveraging hardware and which work best in the cloud.
Let’s work together. American Digital offers free assessments to companies looking to embark on their digital transformation journey. Please submit a Free Assessment request so we can learn more about your organization.
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