In today’s article, we will discuss an important topic that still causes doubt and distrust for some. By the end of this text, we hope to provide more clarity and confidence about it.
You’ve probably heard about the Cloud. We often hear phrases like, ‘I saved my photos in the Cloud,’ or ‘Upload the file to the Cloud.’ On the other hand, some people respond with skepticism, saying, ‘I don’t trust the Cloud.’ Anyway, there are many stories…
To understand everything about this subject and learn how you can manage your cloud maintenance, read on.
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is defined as a digital structure where servers are grouped to share work, resources, and tasks efficiently. Instead of owning and maintaining physical infrastructure and servers, businesses can access these services on demand from a cloud provider. This allows for scalability, more flexibility, and cost savings compared to traditional on-premises IT infrastructure.
The cloud is constantly evolving, incorporating new data, servers, updates, and applications.
Now that we’ve simplified its concept, let’s delve deeper into the topic.
Here’s a new question: Why should you choose cloud storage over local storage? Let’s explore this further!
Why should you use the cloud to store your data?
This is an important question, and to answer it, we’ll present two compelling arguments:
- Availability: Cloud services ensure higher system uptime. For instance, when you upload an application to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform, the data is automatically replicated to two additional servers. This means that even if one server fails, the application will continue to function seamlessly, as the other servers ensure redundancy.
- Cost: Maintaining a server requires infrastructure, data security measures, a skilled team, and several other resources, all of which can be quite costly. Thus, using a platform that fulfills these requirements is often more advantageous for organizations lacking such resources.
If your company requires faster access to applications and services or is uncertain about investing in infrastructure like a new data center, licenses, services, and labor, it’s worth considering a cloud platform.
Currently, adopting solutions that provide cloud hosting services can greatly benefit your company.
What are the benefits of Cloud Computing in the maintenance area?
For maintenance management, having a tool that increases equipment reliability and availability, ensures more efficiency, quality, and cost reduction, provides agility when recording maintenance demands, and allows you to measure your costs while still presenting reliable indicators will certainly bring relief and more assertiveness to the entire team, as it will solve many chronic problems that everyone knows well.
Reconciling the peace of mind of performing maintenance tasks without the need to worry about bureaucratic infrastructure and data security issues, worrying about whether you have all the current system resources to work more quickly, or if data is being stored in backups, is an oasis for the maintenance team. In fact, in the ideal world, I would not have the obligation to assume such responsibilities, but let’s face it, this is what often happens.
The person responsible for the maintenance worker often ends up taking on the role of managing some functions that are the IT team’s, due to limited human and technical resources in the area.
Therefore, why not hire an environment that offers all these benefits and, on top of that, free the maintenance manager from such obligations and let him perform his maintenance management activities with mastery?
Even if your organization has an IT team, it is still a good business to migrate to Cloud, especially if your infrastructure, licenses, and services need updates, service renewals, etc.
What is a Cloud service similar to Engeman® software?
When it comes to maintenance, we strive to deliver the best user experience, allied to the industry. 4.0 and cloud revolution.
Engeman®, which is an exclusive tool for maintenance, takes the topic of ‘Privacy and data protection’ very seriously. We are committed to giving organizations ownership and control over the extraction, use, and distribution of their information.
As such, we work in partnership with Microsoft Azure to responsibly manage the data we store and process.
Our Cloud adopts security measures with a combination of methods, thus protecting your data. The use of firewalls ensures the protection of your network perimeter and covers virtual private networks, allowing the masking of encrypted data and identifiable information. It also has threat intelligence that detects any possible threat and ranks it in order of importance.
To access the Cloud Engeman® environment, use browsers that support the WebSocket protocol. It is worth mentioning that this protocol is supported by most modern browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Opera. We recommend always using the latest available version of these browsers.
What are the advantages and benefits of using the Engeman® Cloud?
Earlier we mentioned our partnership with Microsoft Azure, which is a leader in establishing transparent privacy and security requirements.
Another advantage of using our Engeman® CLOUD is that we offer an SLA (Service Level Agreement) of 99.95% availability per year. This means that your team will not waste their precious time waiting for hours until the IT team installs or reinstalls the CMMS solution, makes updates, etc., and only then has access to the tool.
In practice, having an SLA of 99.95% means that in a year the maximum downtime allowed would be only 15 hours. Yes, 15 hours for the whole year! Considering that a day has 24 hours and the year has 365 days plus 1 for leap years, it’s almost derisory.
All this is to ensure that they use the cloud platform in maintenance with greater agility and safety in times of stress and, of course, give the due strategic importance of the maintenance team to the company’s daily operations.
Another advantage is that we offer a customizable service; that is, your company will pay for the services it needs.
Conclusion
From the data presented, we hope to have clarified many of the doubts about Cloud Computing.
Our Cloud Engeman® team has professionals with hard skills in:
- Information technology;
- Data Analysis;
- Network Structure and Security
- Database manipulation (SQL);
- Programming language;
- Server management;
- Control and management of backups and others
In addition, the entire Engeman® team strives to develop several soft skills based on the values of our organization, which are:
- Integrity and Ethics
- Customer satisfaction;
- Learning to teach;
- Innovation and creativity;
- Flexibility;
- Make a difference.
Count on us to manage your Engeman® responsibly and safely. To learn more, schedule a demo with our team!
