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Cloud controls

Why firms are rethinking how they store and manage data

Marc Ambasna-Jones
Raconteur, 2023
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Today, a growing majority of successful businesses are data driven; but running an in-house data center is often not the best choice for these companies – particularly when it’s unrelated to their core business. Data centers require a complicated infrastructure, and they are expensive. Increasingly, companies like Uber are outsourcing that function to cloud computing services like Oracle with the idea that they can simultaneously increase innovation and cut costs. But public cloud services aren’t necessarily a cure-all. A “hybrid cloud strategy” may be a better alternative.

Take-Aways

  • Many businesses don’t fully realize their aims when they move to the cloud.
  • Cloud computing may help your company cut costs, but that’s not true for all business operations.
  • Increasingly, companies may adopt a “hybrid cloud strategy.”

About the Author

Marc Ambasna-Jones is a writer with over 25 years’ experience in the technology and business sectors. He has written extensively about artificial intelligence, the internet of things, robotics and the future of work in a wide range of national newspapers and trade titles.

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