Making an informed choice regarding cloud hosting for your Sage ERP and Sage HRMS applications is pivotal for aligning your organization’s IT infrastructure with its business objectives. The choice often involves considering the merits and distinctions of private cloud hosting against its public and hybrid counterparts. What are the differences, and which is the best choice for hosting your Sage business applications?
Public Cloud Hosting
Public cloud hosting is characterized by a multi-tenant model where the infrastructure’s resources are shared across various organizations. The big players in this space are familiar names like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. While public cloud hosting can offer scalability and potentially cost savings, it may not provide the same level of control, customization, or performance predictability as a private cloud, which could be critical for businesses with specialized needs or those handling sensitive data.
In addition, public cloud hosting introduces unnecessary complexity for Sage customers, leading to increased costs, potential delays, and a general sense of frustration. The reality for many businesses utilizing major public cloud services is a lack of direct interaction with their providers. Instead, their cloud relationship is filtered through various intermediaries — we often call them layers — from managed service providers to smaller cloud services. This multilayered structure can result in a messy accountability chain, where resolving issues becomes a game of passing the buck.
Hybrid Cloud Hosting Model
The hybrid cloud serves as a bridge between the private and public clouds, offering some of the benefits of both models. Cloud migrations often naturally lead to hybrid cloud implementations as organizations often have to transition applications and data slowly and systematically. Hybrid cloud environments allow you to continue using on-premises services while taking advantage of the flexible options for storing and accessing data and applications offered by public or private cloud providers.
The hybrid cloud model can also refer to the common scenario where your business hosts some of its applications on a public or private cloud and has others installed on your on-premises server and access via your network or VPN. This is quite common. Many businesses we work with continue running some applications outside of “the cloud.” In this way, we think of hybrid cloud as an approach, not a separate hosting option.
Virtual Private Cloud Hosting
Virtual private cloud hosting, such as the services offered by Cloud at Work, provides a bespoke environment dedicated solely to your organization. A virtual private cloud is essentially an isolated section of a public cloud — with an added layer of privacy and control not typically found in standard public cloud offerings. This makes it an excellent choice for hosting Sage ERP and HRMS applications, combining the ease of access associated with the cloud with the security and dedicated resources of an on-premises infrastructure.
Unlike public clouds, where resources are shared among various tenants, a private cloud allows for greater customization to meet specific business requirements and regulatory compliance needs. Moreover, private cloud environments typically provide stronger performance guarantees due to dedicated resources, vital for resource-intensive applications such as Sage ERP or Sage HRMS.
Why Choose a Virtual Private Cloud for Sage?
The combination of dedicated support, Increased control over the IT environment, and the ability to tailor the infrastructure precisely to your business’s needs makes private cloud hosting an advantageous choice. It is proving to be the best hosting option for businesses that rely on Sage ERP and Sage HRMS. The advantages include:
- Dedicated Resources
In a virtual private cloud, your Sage applications run on dedicated resources, ensuring that your operations are not affected by the “noisy neighbor” effect often seen in public clouds. - Customization and Control
Virtual private clouds provide the flexibility to customize the environment according to the specific needs of your Sage applications, offering control akin to an on-premises setup. - Enhanced Security
With a virtual private cloud, you benefit from the security protocols of a private cloud—such as dedicated firewalls and advanced access controls—ensuring that your sensitive financial and operational data is securely managed. - Scalability
While offering a more secure environment, virtual private clouds maintain the scalability of the cloud, allowing your Sage hosting infrastructure to grow with your business. - Direct Expert Support
Cloud at Work provides direct access to Sage experts so that any support you need is both expert and expedient, without the delays that can occur with public cloud service layers.
Your Next Step Towards Cloud Excellence
Choosing the right cloud hosting environment for your Sage applications is critical to your business’s digital transformation. We can help you determine if virtual private cloud hosting is the best option for your organization. Interested in learning more about Cloud at Work’s Sage application hosting? Contact us at 800-719-3307. We’re here to help you build a cloud hosting solution that works for you.