Over the last decade, cloud computing has taken the tech world by storm. Many companies have since shifted their operations to the cloud, and many more plan to do so.

Moving mission-critical systems and applications to the cloud is now necessary, and, according to Gartner, over 60% of organizations will use external cloud-managed services.

Thinking of taking your business to the cloud? Here are five benefits you can get by embracing cloud migration for your IBM i system.

Flexibility and Scalability

The IT world keeps evolving, and the IT solutions that worked in the past may turn end-of-life at any moment, making it difficult for you to remain competitive and serve customers. Migrating your IBM i to the cloud ensures your company can scale up and down effortlessly. The cloud migration does not keep you tied to the past equipment and assets that no longer work for your business. Instead, it let you reshape your infrastructure to accommodate current business needs. That means as the business grows, you can scale your resources up to meet the company’s needs without incurring huge costs that come with expanding physical structures.

Limit Downtime with Backup and Recovery

According to research by ITC, 81% of organizations reported that a single hour of downtime cost them $300,000 or more. While downtime is sometimes unavoidable, you can greatly minimize it with a cloud-based backup and recovery plan.

The cloud backs up your data safely in the data center, allowing you to recover fast (from any location) during a disaster and bring the system back online before incurring huge losses.

So, define your Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and take control over downtime.

Security, Governance and Availability

No matter your security needs, the cloud has you covered by putting efforts to keep data safe and available to you all the time. Your data is safely encrypted, ensuring only authorized users can access the data. The cloud system’s advanced firewalls filter out suspicious traffic, keeping your data safe behind the firewall. Your data is also backed up in different data centers, ensuring it’s accessible to you even if one data center fails.

Lower Data Center Operating Cost

While companies incur huge costs on data center operations, the cost can massively reduce when you move services to the cloud.

By migrating your IBM i System to the cloud, you reduce your local equipment requirement and reduce the storage costs.

Converting Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) Into Operating Expenses (OPEX)

Most businesses often outgrow their IBM Power hardware within five years, after which they’ll need an upgrade to operate again for another five years or less.  Since these upgrade cycles are very costly, companies can switch to cloud hosting with an OPEX model.  OPEX model has predictable fees hence more sustainable.

The “pay-as-you-go” approach lets you offload the infrastructure burden to the cloud system, allowing you to direct your efforts into finding innovative solutions to improve other areas of your business.

Migrate Your Data to Cloud

Moving your data to the cloud could be that step that gives your business a competitive advantage over your competitors. While migrating your data and business apps to the cloud can seem daunting, it does not have to be.

At Data Storage IP, our certified IBM i experts are ready to work with you step-by-step to make the migration process effortless and provide the on-going support you need. Contact us today started.