Evaluating Your Cloud Storage Needs

    

Evaluating Your Cloud Storage Needs

The first quarter of the year is a great time to establish positive habits that will lead to health and prosperity in the coming year. Things such as improving diet and exercise, cleaning out the garage, closets, and more. Bringing this perspective to the workplace can help to set your organization up for success as well. Consider for instance, your cloud storage strategy.

Today we will discuss a few simple ways you can evaluate your cloud strategy to identify how it can work best for you in the coming year.

The first step in deciding what changes need to be made within your current cloud strategy is to evaluate your strategy and make note of what is working for you and what isn’t. Organizations should ask, how are we using the cloud? Are you encrypting data through the cloud? Are you in need of greater security for sensitive data? The answers to these question will determine your next steps, whether that be upgrading your existing plan or investing in services that will help to manage encryption or something completely different.

Once you have your greatest needs identified it will be time to do some research. You will want to understand what services are available to you that will specifically address your businesses needs for the coming year. From here you can look into trial periods for the various options available to you. These trials allow you to live with the service or software and truly understand how it will enhance your business needs for upwards of 30 days before committing to anything new.

The cloud is constantly improving and changing to meet the needs of its users. This is great news as the technology to solve problems and help you work more effectively and efficiently could be available now. Create a cloud strategy and pursue it to ensure you are benefiting from all that technology has to offer this year.

 

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Glen Mund

About The Author

Glen Mund

Glen’s career has spanned the full spectrum of business experience. Glen began his career in public practice accounting. Later in private industry as a controller, Glen discovered his passion for working with accounting software to improve the operations of private businesses. In 1998 Glen moved to Plus International and purchased the company in 2003. In 2014 Plus merged with BAASS to offer its clients a greater breadth and depth of products and services. Glen holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Simon Fraser University and is Certified Public Accountant in the province of British Columbia.