For businesses of all sizes, the way data has been accessed, saved, backed up and stored has changed vastly over the last 10 years. With hardware costs decreasing, storing information in the the cloud is a much more appealing than it once was. 

There are multiple platforms to consider but esentially they offer similar features, often having the ability to carry out upgrades to hardware on the fly, such as adding more RAM or Disc space.  

In addition to the hardware benefits, it’s also easy to carry out automated backups, take snapshots of system configuration and much more. 

Switching to the cloud can also offer benefits of increased performance for users and built in redundancy to enable automated failover if a system goes down or load balancing to ensure each user is connected to the fastest server possible.