SMEs need agile and cost-effective solutions to stay competitive. Cloud computing offers a transformative approach, providing SMEs with scalable resources, advanced technologies, and secure data management without the heavy investments traditionally associated with IT infrastructure.
This week’s edition of Tech Tuesday highlights the top cloud computing tools designed specifically for SMEs. We list solutions that empower businesses to enhance operational efficiency, reduce overhead costs, and access cutting-edge technologies. These tools offer flexibility and scalability, enabling SMEs to grow and adapt swiftly in a rapidly changing market.
From simplified data storage to powerful analytics and collaborative tools, cloud computing equips SMEs with the necessary resources to thrive and innovate.
Rippling
Rippling is a comprehensive workforce management platform that integrates HR, IT, finance, and more into a single, cohesive system. By consolidating employee data across 500+ apps into an all-in-one solution, Rippling enables businesses to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
Fully cloud-based, Rippling is designed to support remote and distributed teams effectively. It facilitates essential people operations, including onboarding, provisioning, and payroll, regardless of employee location. Paperless onboarding features simplify the hiring process by gathering necessary information, documents, and e-signatures online. Additionally, Rippling facilitates global payments, facilitating payroll for full-time employees and contractors anywhere in the world.
With Rippling, companies benefit from a unified platform that simplifies analytics, policy management, and reporting. It connects all your systems to a central source of truth, making updates, management, automation, and reporting seamless: a modern, integrated approach to handling complex HR, Finance and IT needs.
Interactive Anywhere
Interactive Anywhere is a comprehensive managed IT service designed to streamline your IT needs, from smooth cloud transitions to rapid cyber risk mitigation. This solution combines public and private cloud benefits, optimising performance, cost-efficiency, and security.
Angela Logan-Bell, Head of Cloud Sales at Interactive, states, “Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are strategic evolutions, offering the flexibility and resilience required in today’s fast-paced world.” With over 75% of Australian organisations using multiple cloud platforms, Interactive specialises in matching each application or workload to the best cloud environment. Whether private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud, Interactive has you covered wherever you are on your cloud journey.
Stay ahead, and embrace the future with Interactive Anywhere. Contact us today to futureproof your infrastructure strategy.
OVHcloud
OVHcloud provides secure and sustainable cloud computing solutions tailored to various industries. With over 20 years of experience pioneering technology at scale, our closed-loop water-cooling system enables environmentally conscious data storage and management. Our integrated industrial model, which controls the entire value chain from manufacturing to component reuse, ensures cost-effective operations.
Where sustainability often comes at a premium, OVHcloud delivers one of the industry’s best performance-to-price ratios for sustainable cloud computing solutions.
Lenovo ISG
Lenovo ThinkAgile solutions, leveraging hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the global Lenovo TruScale for Hybrid Cloud model, offer seamless scalability and a pre-validated software-defined approach. Powered by the latest Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, these next-generation hybrid cloud solutions enhance AI performance, build cloud agility, and provide on-demand compute and memory, helping businesses reduce their IT footprint and achieve better ROI.
ThinkAgile is crucial for businesses seeking agility and efficiency in a dynamic IT landscape. It simplifies and accelerates software-defined infrastructure deployment, cutting complexity and operational costs. Particularly impactful for industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and retail, ThinkAgile supports secure, scalable data management and real-time analytics.
Akamai Connected Cloud
Akamai Connected Cloud brings together core cloud computing and edge computing, along with industry-leading security — all on the most distributed network on the planet. Enterprises and developers can develop, run, and secure highly performant workloads closer to wherever businesses and users connect online on more than 4,100 core and distributed sites across 134 countries.Akamai Connected Cloud simplifies the developer experience and fosters innovation with an open and flexible architecture. Enterprises can also build, release, and scale faster with Infrastructure as a Service, virtual machines, and tools for every workload.
For modern applications to succeed, they need to be able to scale instantly, automatically, and securely, anywhere in the world. Unveiled in February 2023, Akamai Connected Cloud offers the global scale, speed, performance, and flexibility organisations need to build more engaging and resilient applications, reach more users in more places, and optimise cloud spend in a multi-cloud environment.
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