Let me
relate a quick story to you. We had two separate IT security incidents
last week. One individual had ransomware that encrypted a good
number of documents. Another individual had a crash related to windows updates with continual, unfixable reboots.
These machines eventually were reloaded to fix the problems.
How does
this relate to SharePoint though?
Both of
these stories had varying degrees of heartache and pain associated with getting
the machines functional again. One saving grace of the process though was that
most of the daily work and critical files were stored in different cloud
providers.
Why does
this matter to SharePoint? “Cloud” solutions makes it easier to segregate your
security into parts that do not have to be reloaded or compromised when an
incident occurs on a local machine. With enough standardization of employee
machines, moving to another laptop could make be as simple as logging on with
your own username.
SharePoint
is a cloud product. It always has been and always will be. A service doesn’t
have to be on the internet to be a cloud solution. It simply has to be remote
from the user’s local machine. SharePoint on premise is still a cloud solution,
it’s just a private cloud.
I’m not
going to argue whether Office 365 or SharePoint on-prem is the right choice for
you. You’ve most likely already made that decision. What I’m here to urge is to
seriously consider SharePoint as a central platform for your Information
Technology solutions as a cloud provider. Through extranet solutions, your
internal cloud can be just as accessible as internet based solutions. We do it
every day here at PremierPoint Solutions.
It’s too
easy to save your files locally. It just makes sense. But when catastrophe
happens, that simplicity will be a liability. SharePoint, or any cloud service,
plays an important role in removing local liability and putting your critical
data into a safer location.
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