{"id":10596,"date":"2021-03-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10596"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T23:49:25","slug":"cloud-computing-and-mid-sized-companies-gains-and-losses-that-come-with-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-and-mid-sized-companies-gains-and-losses-that-come-with-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing and mid-Sized Companies: Gains and Losses that Come with the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing in life comes without both a set of pros and cons.  While cloud computing may be wildly popular, and there are good reasons why it is, there are also a set of issues that the cloud raises that either didn&#8217;t exist with on-premise or which the cloud magnifies.  Let&#8217;s look at it from the perspective of a mid-sized company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First the good.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/mid-sized-cloud-adoption-gartner\/591824\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/mid-sized-cloud-adoption-gartner\/591824\/\">Consider some of the reasons behind the popularity of the cloud:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Elimination of the need to maintain hardware.<\/strong>  Many business IT shops with on-premise systems clock huge amounts of time keeping their hardware running and patched.<\/li><li><strong>Disaster recovery.<\/strong> The cloud simplifies data backups and replication, solving a problem that is often difficult to do well on-premise.<\/li><li><strong>Easier access to apps and better dissemination of information.<\/strong>  Business outcomes improve when not only decision makers, but the whole business, can become more data-driven.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But on the flip side, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/mid-sized-cloud-adoption-gartner\/591824\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/mid-sized-cloud-adoption-gartner\/591824\/\">consider some problems that the cloud brings<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Migration costs<\/strong>.  Moving data from on-premise to the cloud is expensive and that cost alone can be a non-starter for a lot of mid-sized companies.<\/li><li><strong>Operational costs.<\/strong> The cloud is advertised to be like a utility where you only pay for what you use. But your apps need to be modernized to fully take advantage of cloud architecture.<\/li><li><strong>Security. <\/strong> Once data is moved to the cloud, there will be a greater worry about data security.  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