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Migrate to the Cloud
Realize the advatages of an enterprise-wide workspace to seamlessly secure, manage, and deliver information.
It wasn’t that long ago that organizations needing electrical power required a generator onsite to power their lights and equipment. Today that is a ridiculous thought because we just plug into the wall outlet and electrical power is available. Yet most organizations still have rooms full of computer equipment to create the compute power necessary to make their business function.
Cloud computing is a hosted, outsourced version of the power plant for compute power and applications. Cloud computing benefits are enormous for financial services companies like venture capital, private equity and investment banking firms. An organization that migrates to the cloud can expect to see several benefits.
These include:
- Accessibility. Have access to the latest data, systems and applications from any computer or device, anywhere in the world, any time of the day or night is the promise of cloud computing. You no longer have to be limited by disparate client server environments.
- Cost Savings. One of the major benefits of cloud computing is that you can eliminate unnecessary capital expenditures and budget-destroying hardware refreshes.
- Resiliency. Redundant systems in the cloud help create enterprise-wide availability, which is a tremendous benefit to venture capital, private equity, brokerage and investment firms who rely on 100% uptime for system and email access.
- Scalability. Take advantage of an affordable way to scale your IT operations as your organization grows or shrinks and your technology needs change.
- Cloud Security. Centralized data storage with robust authentication and access controls provides a higher level of protection for sensitive data such as customer information. Plus standardization is a major benefit of cloud computing. Cloud security is the key to cloud compliance.
Case Study: Lisle Savings Bank
Problem
After experiencing and outage that negatively impacted business, the bank needed to find a quick, cost effective solution to improve data recovery times and method.
Solution
Compushare provided the fully managed solution – Critical Systems Recovery which reduced their recovery time from 48hrs to less than 60mins.
Result
Compushare reduced recovery time by over 90% while providing a simplified method of recovery. The bank’s recovery plan and process are now aligned with their strategic IT initiatives.