Collaborative workspace application and services are ubiquitous in the modern workplace, small or large. Over the past decade, there’s been a big push to put everything on “the Cloud”; essentially outsourcing your IT infrastructure to someone else, and accessing your data and applications remotely. But with data breaches and outages on the rise, is that really the best policy for you?
Traditionally, the headline feature of Cloud hosting is having your IT services available online. This comes from a time when web servers were big, complex, and expensive. Only big enterprise could afford to have their own web servers. Today, however, anyone can host a web server on the tiniest computers, phones, even a toaster.
Own your data, physically
With your servers hosted on-premises, you physically own the infrastructure and data that runs your business. You don’t have to trust anyone else to keep your data safe and private. And even if the entire internet were to shutdown, you still have your systems running and available in your own office.
For some organizations, data sovereignty has recently become an issue as well. Hosting locally addresses privacy, availability, and legal concerns for sensitive sovereign data.
Buying tech is cheap, renting is not
Over the years, computer hardware has become incredibly cheap yet powerful. A modern PC today is more powerful than a server from 10 years ago costing 20 times the price. When you outsource to the Cloud, someone else still has to build and operate the infrastructure. They’re not running a charity – they need to recover costs and turn a significant profit on top.
Constantly transferring large amounts of data online costs money too, on top of storage costs. If your team works with large amounts of data (especially with HD media files being common today), constantly transferring up and down the Cloud can get costly very quickly. With a local server in your office, you can add Terabytes of storage for cheap, and use it as much as you want without incurring charges. On gigabit LAN, it is much faster too.
Summary
Hosting your servers on-premises or locally is:
Owning and keeping your data in-house. Immunity from 3rd party outages and security breaches. Cheaper in the long run. Fast and unlimited usage within your own networks.
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