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Ten Reasons Your Company Needs Cloud-Based Servers
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Have you ever considered a cloud-based server for your business? If you haven’t, you need to read this mail to the end to know why your company needs it.
The cloud is useful for organizations at each stage in their development. Be that as it may, it tends to be particularly useful for little to fair sized organizations. Independent ventures and new businesses frequently face various difficulties that may not influence bigger organizations in their industry.
With restricted assets and exceptionally limited activities, these organizations will be unable to financially plan for an extended IT staff, current programming, and the equipment needed to run it. Below are the 10 reasons your company needs cloud-based servers particularly from Layer3.
- Security: storing an organization’s data in the cloud can insure it against loss and data breaches. Cloud storage gives users the insurance of a cloud supplier’s frameworks for forestalling cybercrime and other security dangers.
- Diminished Capital Expenditures: Large capital ventures can be limited or disposed of for scheduled instalments. Capital can be secured as downplaying capital and operational costs can be vital to little and medium organizations the same.
- Access from Anywhere: Being ready to work together without borders is one of the significant advantages of cloud services. Admittance to your applications and information is accessible to approved users anywhere there is an internet connection.
- Staffing Efficiency: Cloud-based servers can assist you with keeping a proficient innovation staff, reevaluating key specialized or innovative staff as it is good for your business.
- Keeping up Focus on the Business: Businesses are understanding that running an IT office isn’t their centre competency, they are better legal advisors, specialists or handymen. Purchasing cloud servers, either as a single application or their whole datacenter is regularly more dependable and cost-effective and allows businesses to redistribute their restricted assets to develop their business.
- Business Agility: Cloud-based servers eliminate barriers of businesses not being able to take advantage of shifts in the market, permit organizations to ceaselessly adjust their innovation needs to their business without the costs that would have to be considered with an onsite.
- Scale: Businesses that have top seasons or diverse occasional staffing requests can benefit from cloud services by allowing them incidentally dial-up greater limits with respect to the occasional business top seasons, without buying the equipment or programming that would some way or another go unused during the slower seasons.
- Information Backups: When your data is stored in the cloud, you can be sure you have backups in case of an emergency. Backups happen daily and they are usually automated so it won’t be a problem when you forget to duplicate your date.
- Adaptability and Flexibility: Cloud services range from essential public cloud services to fully managed cloud services. As a business develops, it may need to scale its cloud service package to add more applications, storage and services given by the host.
Some cloud service providers offer pay-as-you-go administrations, so clients can change plans or add new services depending on the situation. Furthermore, since plans can be updated or minimized, users can opt for the service they need at a particular time.
- To save cost: You’ll need to grow your data storage/capacity If you’re hoping to develop your business.
Dealing with huge storage can get costly and burdening on more modest IT divisions. When you have cloud-based servers for your business, the cost of making IT hardware will be greatly reduced.
Lynda Saint-Nwafor, chief Enterprise business officer, MTN Nigeria, has assured the network subscribers that the new end-user billing system for the use of USSD services will jot affect them.
USSD, otherwise Unstructured Supplementary Service Data codes are commonly used for banking transactions, airtime recharges, and other mobile services.
The telco said that there is no significant impact or change other than the fact that they will now pay the same N6.98 per session (120 seconds) with their airtime instead of direct bank debit.
Saint-Nwafor, said this during a chat with MTN MIP fellows, explaining that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have ordered telecom operators to ensure that the new billing model resolves trust issues and ensures transparency in the billing process.
“Our regulator insisted that at the end of every month, we are going to be providing history and statistics on the performance of the service across the board”, she explained.
Saint-Nwafor added that the new billing model has standardized messaging across all operators and ensures consistent communication with customers.
“We will take all the error codes and map them into messages that are standardised across the board. So, if you initiate a transaction, you will know if it is failing. And, when the transaction fails, you will know if it is from your bank or the telco,” she explained.
The U.S. government has recovered $225 million in what is now the largest seizure of funds linked to a cryptocurrency investment scam.
In a statement released Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said the recovery followed an extensive investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, using blockchain analysis and other forensic tools. The statement did not confirm whether any arrests had been made.
According to the authorities, the stolen funds originated from fraudulent cryptocurrency investment schemes that tricked victims into believing they were making legitimate investments. More than 400 individuals around the world, including dozens in the United States, were reportedly affected.
The operation involved a sophisticated money laundering network that carried out hundreds of thousands of blockchain transactions to obscure the source and ownership of the stolen assets.
“These scams prey on trust, often resulting in extreme financial hardship for the victims,” said Shawn Bradstreet, Special Agent in Charge at the U.S. Secret Service office in San Francisco.
Bradstreet added that U.S. officials hope the recovered funds can eventually be returned to the rightful victims.
Cryptocurrency investment fraud accounted for over $5.8 billion in reported losses in 2024 alone, according to the statement.
In a rousing declaration that is electrifying minds across the continent, Hon. Nnaemeka Ani, Special Adviser on ICT to Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has called for a homegrown digital revolution under the banner “Africa Will Rise: By Code, By Courage, By Us.”
Hon. Nnaemeka Ani
The message, part challenge, part philosophical—seeks to galvanize African innovators to move beyond buzzwords and build technology with impact and legacy in mind.
“Let’s stop building for hype. Let’s start building for legacy,” Ani urged while speaking to ICT journalists over the weekend. “Let’s stop waiting for someone else. Let’s start creating the future—on our own terms.”
At the heart of Ani’s vision is a shift from tech consumerism to tech authorship. With innovation hubs sprouting across cities like Enugu, Lagos, Kigali, Jo’Burg, and Nairobi, and a growing community of developers, engineers, and entrepreneurs determined to solve Africa’s unique challenges, the movement is already taking shape.
Ani emphasized that Africa’s future lies not in flashy apps or international admiration but in persistent, intentional solutions that uplift communities—solutions that digitize public services, bridge rural-urban divides, empower women and youth, and build resilience in food and climate systems.
“We have the talent,” he said. “Now it’s time to harness it—to stop building for likes and start building for lasting impact.”
With support from leaders like Ani and rising momentum in Africa’s tech corridors, it seems that a new chapter is being written—one line of code at a time.
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