The world is facing the greatest challenge of the century due to the new Corona Virus Pandemic (now, not so new).
The restrictions imposed by this disease have forced people to completely change their routines at home, school and in the workplace.
When the topic of information technology for productivity is addressed within the “new normal”, we see a wide variety of possibilities for work teams to produce more and better even in the face of adversity.
At this time, with the possibility of a vaccine for COVID-19 emerging, companies viber data that have had to adapt their processes to keep their operations running in an attempt to serve their customers are wondering whether they should resume their activities to the pre-pandemic model or take a new path.
To do this, we need to talk about how IT environments are currently maintained and what possibilities are offered to adapt your company to home office and the new work cycle through Hybrid IT Operations.
Commonly used IT environments can be divided into 3 large groups.
They are: On Premises Operations, Cloud Operations and Hybrid Operations.
On Premises Operations:
The main characteristic of these operations is the company's full responsibility.
Racks, Servers, UPSs and other IT equipment centralized in a CPD within your company (head office or branches), to provide ERP, CRM and file systems, characterize an environment called On Premises.
In other words, the company is responsible for using the structure with licensing, hardware, electricity, BACKUPS, general maintenance of the environment and hiring specialized labor so that all of this is maintained in the best possible way.
It is currently the type of environment most used by small and medium-sized companies that have more traditional management, one of whose objectives is to accumulate real estate, in addition to having specific needs.
Main advantages:
· The files are the responsibility of the most interested parties, that is, you and your employees;
· greater customization capacity, since the hardware and software used are part of the company's assets;
· greater company control over the implementation of new technologies
Main disadvantages:
· Unpredictable investments to implement new technologies;
· Unpredictable investments in equipment and software maintenance;
· risks of errors and loss of information, as the entire backup system is the responsibility of the company that purchased the software and hardware;
Summary: Maintaining an On Premises environment is a major challenge for any entrepreneur, as forecasting investments and expenses is challenging, affecting the cash flow of any business through the maintenance and implementation of unforeseen resources.
Cloud Operations:
Cloud Computing is a term that has been on the rise for a few years now, and has been revolutionizing the way companies innovate, as, in addition to cost prediction, it also offers elasticity (the ability to increase or decrease software or hardware resources according to business needs).