Is Your Cloud Hosting Reliable?

If your business uses the cloud, you need that cloud to be reliable. Otherwise, you’re just wasting resources. Let’s examine how you can make your cloud solution as reliable as possible so you’re not leaving any money on the table.

What Makes a Cloud Solution Reliable?

Simply put, it’s the measure of how consistently your cloud solution can deliver its services without disruption. Businesses rely on the cloud more so today than at any other time in history, so you want to ensure that those resources and services are available at any time.

Here are some ways you can measure cloud reliability:

• The service is available to you
• You can access the service from any Internet-connected location
• You can access the service at any time
• You have secure access to the service
• You can accomplish your objective as you use the service

Here are some questions you can ask to gauge your cloud’s reliability:

Are Your Cloud Resources Redundant?

This involves data backup across multiple servers, all but guaranteeing that you’ll always have access to the data or services necessary, even if a hardware failure or disaster strikes.

Is Your Underlying Network Robust Enough to Pick Up Slack?

Your cloud should be built with failover protections and other connections in place, just in case they are needed.

Is Your System Tolerant to Change and Disruption?

Your cloud system should be able to operate even if certain components have failed, preventing disruptions and improving the availability of resources.

Are You Maintaining Your Cloud Solution?

This might involve monitoring your cloud to ensure that issues and concerns don’t emerge—and if they do, you can take action to address them before they impact availability.

Improve Your Overall Cloud Reliability

If you want to improve your cloud’s reliability, we’ve got some recommendations to consider.

First of all, you should have a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy in place—one that can help you restore systems should the need arise. We also recommend that you periodically test your systems to make sure they’re working as intended. Finally, we recommend that your cloud solutions be protected against cyberattacks and data breaches, as they can be disruptive and wasteful to deal with.

BNMC can help you with all of the above. All you have to do is contact us at (978) 482-2020 to learn more.