Scaling your business doesn’t happen overnight — it requires careful planning and the right mix of people, experience, and technology. Investing in the right technology is essential for streamlining processes, minimizing manual work, increasing productivity, and saving time and money – all conditions required for scale. Increasingly, the “right” technology is cloud-based and delivers all these benefits and more. Think of cloud solutions as your secret weapon for driving scale.
How Cloud Solutions Help Your Business Scale
Cloud technology solutions are ideally suited to help your business scale effectively and efficiently. Let’s explore the benefits:
- On-demand Resources – Cloud services are on-demand resources delivered by a managed services provider (MSP), so your business can scale up or down based on its needs without significant upfront investments in hardware or software.
- Right-sized Costs – With cloud solutions, you pay only for the resources you use, similar to a subscription service or operational expense (OpEx). The resulting reduction in capital expenditures (CapEx) allows your business to reallocate resources to drive growth and expansion.
- Enhanced Collaboration – Cloud solutions enable your employees to access and share information easily and securely from any location, streamlining workflows and increasing productivity, which is critical for scale.
- Improved Accessibility – Cloud services provide access to data and applications anytime, anywhere and on any device with internet connectivity, enabling your company to optimize work hours and expand into new markets.
- Automatic Updates – Cloud solutions providers handle maintenance and updates to keep your systems current and secure, allowing your IT team to focus on growth-focused projects.
- Integration – Cloud platforms typically integrate with cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT), offering new opportunities for innovation and growth.
What Cloud Solutions Can Help Your Business Scale
Cox Business offers a complete selection of managed cloud solutions that can help your business scale, including:
- Desktop as a Service (DaaS) – DaaS enables your employees to securely access important applications and data from almost anywhere. Protect your business with complete redundancy, extend the life of existing hardware, and tailor your solution to your specific business needs and workflows with DaaS.
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – Moving your IT infrastructure to the cloud reduces the risk of data loss, lowers capital investment, and simplifies compliance. IaaS offers on-demand computing and storage capacity, comprehensive disaster recovery plans, and physical security like exterior and biometric systems, scanners, and more.
- Security as a Service (SECaaS) – SECaaS combines leading security solutions into a cloud-based subscription service to address top business security challenges like data breaches, compliance requirements, asset tracking, employee privacy, and cyberattacks.
- Microsoft 365 – Microsoft 365 gives you on-demand access to top productivity applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plus the popular Teams collaboration tool with licensing plans that scale as your business grows. Cox Business makes it easier than ever to move to the cloud with complimentary migration and enablement.
- Identity as a Service (IDaaS) – IDaaS offers centralized management of user identities for secure access to data and applications stored in the cloud, hosted, or on-premises. Functions include identity management, multifactor authentication (MFA), and single sign-on.
Scaling your business for growth doesn’t have to be challenging. Cox Business delivers the cloud technology solutions you want backed by cybersecurity and expert 24/7/365 customer support you need to scale at will. We also offer managed support to help scale day-to-day IT operations and free your IT team to focus on revenue-driving business priorities.
