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Which Cloud Provider Should I Choose for my Business? | Tech Talk - YouTube
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Hey, welcome to another Tech Talk.
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I'm Nick. I'm joined again by Chad.
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He's our Chief Information
Officer here at Aldridge.
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Today we're going to be
talking about cloud providers.
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There's a lot of options out there.
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I'm hoping that we can
demystify it a little bit for you
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and also help you make
a good informed decision
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as you go to choose
the provider of your choice.
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Let's talk about the differences between
some of the main options out there.
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I'm sure there's a lot of names
that people have heard
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but I know Amazon Web Services is large.
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You've got also Azure from Microsoft.
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You've got, you know
people have private clouds.
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Let's talk about some of the differences
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that a client would be able
to make choices between.
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Well, it's important when
you're thinking about cloud providers
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to not be thinking about a name
or a particular technology that's out there.
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It's really what is it going to do for you.
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How are you going to utilize it?
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To that end, there's
really several different types
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of cloud provider out there, even though
they all are in the same space.
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They're all cloud providers.
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They don't all do
and offer the exact same thing.
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We try to look at what
are we trying to accomplish?
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Towards that end, people like Amazon
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Microsoft, even Google, to some extent
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will offer server hosting or services hosting.
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If you really want to run your own
servers that makes a lot of sense.
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For some applications
that's really what's required
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but we're finding that more
and more people are shifting
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to utilizing software from the cloud.
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That's more a matter of saying
"I need to subscribe to email services"
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"or I need to subscribe to file
services like Microsoft SharePoint."
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Overall, within the industry
we're seeing more
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and more businesses adopting
the Microsoft Cloud on that.
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Microsoft offers a service specifically
like the Office 365 products
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but it's really about choosing the right mix
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for what the business
is trying to accomplish.
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When a business
is looking to make a choice
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between these providers
what are some of the questions
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that they should be asking themselves
or what should they be using as a decision?
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You want to be thinking about
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who's got the industry-leading solutions
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within particular categories that
you most want to take advantage of
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but you also want to think about
the robustness of the ecosystem around it.
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How many other products
do they have that you could potentially grow to
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that they can tie in without
you then having solution over here
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and solution over here
that don't necessarily talk?
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One of the things
that you hinted out was this idea
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of a private cloud or not using
one of the large ones like Amazon
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or like Azure, but maybe
using an IT company's private cloud.
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Would we recommend
that to any of our clients?
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I would have a hard time
recommending private cloud
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for most cases today because it really
locks you in to a particular solution.
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You lose the portability
and you lose the ability
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to select best of breed
and to have more components
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to add in around that
solution that you started with.
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How would Aldridge help clients
choose the right provider for them?
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The conversation always starts
with what's the business in?
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What are we trying to do?
What's the landscape look like today?
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From that we've even
gone through and itemized out
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let's look at all the types of things
we're looking to accomplish.
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Let's consider what it would look
like if we ran it on premise
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or what would it look like
if we ran it in software as a service?
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If we could subscribe to these products
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or what would it look
like if we ran full servers
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in something like the Microsoft Cloud?
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You really have to look at it
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and say, "What's my experience going
to be with each of those solutions?"
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"How do they work together?"
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Then, "What are my implementation"
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"my monthly operating costs
and my long-term total cost of ownership?"
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At that point, we can really
have an informed conversation
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to make some business level decisions
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thinking about three
four years down the road.
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A client would actually
be working with somebody
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that's been assigned to help them
make these types of decisions.
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Certainly, our clients
that are engaged with us
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usually are working with their CIO for this.
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The CIO role within Aldridge
is really about the longer term strategy.
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When you're talking about where
are we going to commit resources
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what are we going to subscribe to?
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How are all these things
going to work together?
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That really is a CIO-level conversation
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because the CIO is tasked with taking
what you've expressed to me
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as your business initiatives
for the years ahead
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and making sure
that we're coming to you
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with the right IT solutions
that are aligned to support that
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because we have the responsibility
to make sure they meet the need.
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When we're talking
about having data in a cloud
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one thing people might be wondering
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is whether they need
to worry about backing it up
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or should they just trust
the cloud provider to back it up.
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What's our stance on that?
What do we recommend to clients?
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Most cloud providers offer a basic level
of restore recovery capability.
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Usually, that means that they'll guarantee
that if the equipment goes down
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they'll resort to the operating state
that it was maybe half a day ago.
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They'll get your system back up and running
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but they won't necessarily help you
restore a file from six months ago
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or 18 months ago that somebody overwrote
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or accidentally deleted and no one
noticed for that duration of time.
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We always supplement
that with a backup solution
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because we're really not just looking to say
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"I need to turn the server
back online to how it was"
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"when the cloud provider had an issue."
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"I want to turn it back online
to the point where it was a week ago"
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"because I recognize that
there was some problems"
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"with the software that maybe
it was caused by new installation"
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"or something didn't configure properly
we need to roll it back."
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We do have to use third-party solutions
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or at least a cloud service
provider solution for that.
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If you have any questions
and you are a client of Aldridge
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make sure that you reach out to your CIO
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as they're ready and willing to help you.
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If you're not a current client of Aldridge
and you want more information
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feel free to visit our website
at www.aldridge.com.
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We'd love to have a chat
with you and see how we can help.
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