Why You Should Shift Your Network’s Security To The Cloud

Cloud computing allows users to move their data from solid hard drives linked to computers or networks in a singular locality, to third party hosted data centers. This means users can access this data from anywhere in the world, from any device that is capable of connecting to the internet.

You might not realize it, but cloud computing already plays a massive part in your daily life. All the data from popular social media websites like Facebook and YouTube is hosted on the cloud, which is why you can access it from your phone or computer anywhere in the world.

Over the years, people have identified numerous risks linked to the actual level of security provided by security services. These include:

• Unauthorized access to customer and business data;
  
• Security risks at the service provider;
  
• Compliance and legal risks;
  
• All control of the access to data is with the service provider;
  
• Risk of unavailability of data due to server downtime.
  

• Potentially unlimited amounts of data storage for any corporation, as long as they’re willing to pay for it.
  
• Independence from physical hard drives means the data is accessible from anywhere in the world, as long as you have the required credentials to access it.
  
• The data is much more readily editable and viewable by a larger pool of people. For example, the CEO of a company sitting in China can view all the work that is being done by his staff in Canada, despite being halfway across the world.
  
• Adding to the point above, the globalization of the data also means more people can work on it simultaneously. This improves productivity tenfold, as the data is no longer restricted to one computer screen.

• Third party data centers have numerous advantages over traditional in-house data centers, including:
  
• Third party hosting is cheaper, as one server is catering to a number of users, all of whom pay for the service. This brings down the cost incurred on one user.
  
• There are huge costs associated with setting up your own in-house data center. This includes all the storage that will be bought, and the related infrastructure. Third party hosting becomes cheaper as there is already an existing infrastructure, you just pay for the data being stored.
  
• Third party hosting utilizes resources more efficiently than its traditional variant, with the global reach playing a big factor.
  

The Dubai business market is expanding outwards into other countries at a very fast rate, and a lot of multinational companies have begun to move to the cloud for better optimized storage. Companies like Netflix and NASA have already begun storing most of their data on third party hosted servers.

It’s time you too ditched the traditional in-house system for your local business, and shifted to managed security services Dubai and abroad.