Soar to Success June 2019

T he other day I was driving in my car and heard the Rolling Stones’ song “Hey, You, Get Off Of My Cloud.” It got me thinking... What did Mick Jagger know about “The Cloud” back in the 60s and 70s? Maybe Mick knew the potential pitfalls of public cloud services like Gmail, Dropbox and others. Perhaps he knew that the Cloud brings huge opportunities to small businesses and allows them to compete on a global stage with their largest competitors. So, why was Mick Jagger telling everyone to get off his cloud? Well, it’s easy to sum up... Security. In the world of cloud computing, multi-tenant, public cloud services can present amajor security risk. Some small businesses start out using a public cloud. But, as your organization grows and brings Get Off Of My Cloud Hey You... By Jeanne DeWitt onmore teammembers, winsmore opportunities and surpasses revenue expectations...it’s time to get off that public cloud and move to a more secure, customizable private cloud service. Why Do You Need Private A Cloud? Private Clouds are just that… Private. No one else but your authorized users are on your server. Unlike Microsoft Office 365 or Google’s Gmail which are shared across all their clients, your mail server that’s hosted in your Private Cloud is exactly that...Yours. No one else can use it. With a private cloud service, you control who has access to what, not someone on the other side of the world that you don’t know. You’re in control of its privacy and access. Plus, private clouds are necessary for compliant-based businesses like healthcare, law and finance.