The cloud hit the scene with an unprecedented impression, enabling companies to run their servers, store their data, and manage their business with the secure, compact, and remote services of the cloud. While many businesses are still uncertain about the move, countless others have embraced the technological advancement and made the leap, reaping outstanding benefits in the process. Whether it is a boost in productivity, reducing wasted space, or a significant cut on general costs, the cloud is quickly being hailed as a great choice. One such success story demands attention with the numbers to back it up:
- Yamaha’s Success.
Yamaha of America is a company specializing in motorbikes, boats, and a range of outdoor luxury equipment. To support a profitable business of that size, like many before it, Yamaha required a great deal of technical assistance. The company functioned by leasing a wide range of computer servers, which then managed over 200 software servers. After this, hundreds of programs depended on these software servers in order to function and be utilized, all to ensure the company ran like a well-oiled machine. The maintenance, backups, tests, and management of this entire lengthy process required the effort and attention of several IT experts. The manpower, the expenses, and all the hardware surrounding these servers came together for a considerable cost to the company.
With the modern trend of the cloud convincing companies to make the transfer, Yamaha shifted over 200 servers to the Amazon’s cloud and completely removed all of its previous data centers. As a result, within a single year, the company saved over $500,000, and continues to meet this average savings every year following.
Yahama is not the only company to experience such savings, though it is one of the most appealing success stories. Statistics show that over 82% of companies experienced great savings by migrating to the cloud, and 14% were able to shrink the size of their IT department afterwards. An additional 80% reported experiencing extreme improvement in their productivity after the move — showing it’s not only possible to save money but make money with the cloud.
How You Can Benefit from Moving to the Cloud
- Reduced Manpower.
One of the main ways the cloud saves money is the reduced amount of manpower needed to run a server. Yamaha was able to greatly downsize its team of experts, resulting only six IT employees working at any given time thanks to the Amazon cloud’s advantages. By following the same example, your company can greatly reduce departments and cut on the outgoing salaries, or perhaps relocate workers to separate divisions in order to boost production. In both cases, the savings to your budget is considerable.
- Reduced Hardware.
As a mobile system, the cloud takes less space and requires less hardware than its competitor. This allows companies to reduce the money spent on buying large amounts of equipment, buying or renting space to contain the servers, as well as on the amount of repair needed to sustain them. Additionally, other types of equipment will experience less strain, since data will be stored in the cloud rather than on the equipment itself, leading to longer lifespans. The expenses avoided can be devoted to other departments and projects, which will boost production.
- Use Them Only as You Need Them
The cloud offers a unique ability: you can use servers when they’re needed, and power them down when they’re not. While traditional servers would function constantly, draining power and requiring maintenance, the cloud follows the modern trend of being flexible. Yamaha showed how beneficial this asset is, crediting a portion of their considerable savings to this ability. Then, in a case of emergency, the servers can easily be turned on at a fast pace and used almost immediately. This adds convenience to the benefits of the cloud, as well as preventing unnecessary expense.
Yamaha stands as a shining example of why the cloud is quickly becoming a top choice for growing companies. With it as a reference, there’s one clear lesson to be learned for all businesses considering the move: the cloud is the future’s solution to data storage and maintenance.
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