We are increasingly noticing thatpeople are open to considering new opportunities when a problem arises, that is, when they are forced to change strategy because they can no longer continue to work with existing business solutions.
A really complex and often unproductive aspect, because with an ongoing problem, related to, for example, data security, excessive spam in e-mail, reorganizing work is possible, but after suffering extensive damage.
We speak knowledgeably about this because in our business experience we have faced, like any business, large or small, the challenges associated with digital transformation and a period of change, abandoning the use of old working tools such as in-house servers.
If in-house servers still take up a lot of space in your company's offices today, we suggest you read why we got rid of them, preferring Google's Cloud solutions.
Ours has been an evolution that began taking its first steps in 2005 and has never ended, because we are still in continuous transformation.
"We feel we share with you our point of view as entrepreneurs and as colleagues in the IT department," explain Giordano Iovine andDavid Bussetti, respectively CEO and CIO of power2Cloud -, to show you that these are two sides of the same coin and that the benefits of one positively affect the other as well.
What problems do in-house servers cause?
In-house servers, besides the physical footprint, which is not a factor to be overlooked, make vulnerable a number of aspects that are vital to your business life.
In 2005 we founded our first company, a Software House oriented to the development of Web Based solutions and we had several servers in house: Mazinga, Doraemon, Gundam, Geeg, Goldrake, all were named, after the names of characters from some cartoons.
The problems encountered were numerous and weighed on both the internal organization and the Clients to whom we provided services. Let us recall some of them together:
- interruption of services
- high unreliability
- physical encumbrance
- high operating costs
- high maintenance costs
- burdensome management of backups
- security vulnerability
- upgrade and innovation of machines and services slow and onerous
- no disaster recovery since you depend on a physical location
The benefits of G Suite after in-house server experience
In 2010 we decided to adopt a solution not directly managed by us, Google Apps my Business, which we all know today as G Suite, especially for e-mail.
This allowed us to fix all the vulnerabilities caused by using in-house servers, while also taking advantage of all the useful applications in the Suite such as Drive, Google Calendar, Hangout Meet, just to name a few. G Suite offered us:
- continuity
- high reliability
- everything in the cloud
- minor operation and maintenance cost
- backup in one click
- more security
- upgrade and innovation of machines and services continuously updated in one click
- in one suite many useful applications - multiservices
What benefits does Google Cloud Platform have for Businesses?
In 2012 we adopted in IAAS mode the services of GCP for one of our applications that is used by users in fifteen different countries. A solution that first and foremost ensured scalability and always up-to-date upgrades.
Scalability, as you may know, is the ability to increase or decrease the performance of a server or service based on actual usage needs, an important aspect that done in-house requires hours of work, the cost of managing a systems engineer and that instead Google allows you to do in two clicks. Google Cloud Platform has offered our Companies:
- high scalability
- security
- continuity
- high reliability'
- everything in the cloud
- minor cost of operation and maintenance
- backup in one click
- better security
- upgrade and innovation of Machines and services continually updated in one click
The Benefits of DevOps/CD
In 2016, the introduction to DevOps/CD methodologies led us to integrate services in PAAS mode so as to automate the deployment pipeline. Here are the benefits:
- migration to Cloud SQL service
- ability to rollback At any time
- CI/CD Pipelines
- rapid and continuous technology evolution
- automation of processes
The Future of Corporations? It's in microservices
The need to manage users in more than thirty nations, with the use of our instances globally, prompted us to redesign our architectures from a microservices perspective.
Those who work primarily in Retail know that offering microservices is an absolute prerequisite. Adopting a single methodology to ensure continuous delivery integration, collective adoption and continuous evolution, automating processes as much as possible, opens up new opportunities!" That is why we continue on this path:
- functional decomposition in microservices
- scalability at the microservices level
- CD/CI Pipilines at the microservices level
- integration of an ESB for communication between microservices
As you see today you can save time, money and resources. If you have curiosity, want to resolve some doubts or are interested in learning more about Google Cloud solutions our team, as Google Cloud Partners, will be happy to talk together, listening to your Company's needs.
Contact us to request more information from our team.