Cloud Services for South Florida Businesses

Cloud services are when your business network uses somebody else's infrastructure servers, storage, and processing power on a subscription service.

It is similar to a utility company: you pay for as much electricity as you use each month. The same is true for cloud services.

Microsoft 365 is a great example. It provides your business with all the tools you need to communicate and be efficient: emails, document creation and storage, collaboration, instant chatting, video conferencing, security management, and much more.

The best part is you never have to install or run a program or maintain a server because everything is done on Microsoft’s cloud solutions and servers. It gives any size business the same access to the same software and internal communication ability as a fortune 500 company.

Yes, there are various levels. Here is an image showing several different tiers of cloud solutions.

Like many things related to IT, that depends! Business size, number of workstations, your software and networking goals, and other things are all factors that determine what type of cloud solution works best for your business.

At Boomtech, we offer a cloud assessment to help determine what solution would work the best for your company.

Yes, they are. Many other software or programs that you access online are considered cloud services too, such as Facebook, most project management services, and other programs that you access through a web portal.

Here are a few things we recommend:

• Make sure they are a stable company that will be here for the next decade. You don’t want a company setting up your cloud, only to see them go out of business in the next year.
• You should be receiving regular reports of issues, downtime, etc.
• Security is huge - make sure you ask what security measures they use, as well as where and how your data will be stored.
• If you work in an industry that has compliance requirements, such as healthcare providers, make sure the cloud solution meets all the compliance requirements.
• Make sure the cloud provider is backing up the data so that you don’t need a 3’rd party backup service.
• As a final note, be cautious about using a small private cloud hosting service. If something goes wrong, you are at their mercy, and some of them have additional fees and costs that a larger IT company won’t charge.

It depends on the size and complexity of your business system, but in general, we recommend any company with employee workstations use a qualified IT team to ensure maximum security and efficiency.

Like any piece of technology or online software, cloud services aren’t perfect, and they occasionally do break or have outages.

Thankfully, data is rarely lost, and downtime is usually minimal when using a trusted cloud provider. And if your cloud provider is regularly backing up your data, then data recovery should be possible if data is actually lost or destroyed.