4 reasons to migrate your Atlassian products to the cloud

Cloud services are more secure, sustainable, flexible, and cost-effective than ever before. And they give companies fewer and fewer reasons to stick to local solutions.

The benefits of a cloud solution

1) Cloud boosts team productivity

The cloud increases the productivity of your teams primarily through one thing: It shortens the task list of IT teams.

In local environments, IT teams have a whole range of tasks to complete — from setting up servers and replacing spare parts to resolving major incidents and configuring the latest security features. With a cloud solution, the cloud provider performs many of these tasks. This gives the IT team more time to focus on the tasks that create the most added value for your company.

When you host your software and products locally, tech teams have to invest more and more time. Scaling storage, inventory, or computing power to meet your users' needs can take several days or even weeks and months. Upgrades and security patches require you to take time to do them regularly (not to mention the mental overload of scheduling and managing them). And major incidents that occur and the occasional nighttime hustle and bustle of responding to a process or security breach are left entirely up to your IT team.

2) Instant upgrades

With the cloud, you get instant access to the latest features, security updates, and bug fixes.

If you use your software and processing power in a local environment, you'll have to manually upgrade every time new features are released (usually two to four times a year). The obvious costs fall on the IT team, which must invest time and money to make changes. It also needs to plan for frequent downtime, which can impact the entire company.

Because the cloud offers automatic scaling and immediate security and feature upgrades, teams can act quickly and flexibly. You can make changes to processes and benefit from new features and benefits that improve your workflows. And that without lengthy approval processes, delays or at the expense of IT.

3) Scale quickly and cost-effectively in the cloud

Most of us—regardless of the current size of the company—plan to continue to grow and scale the business.

However, if we grow too fast without scalable technology, it can have bad consequences: Doubling product usage sounds fantastic. But the absence of technology to support this development can lead to major incidents, dissatisfied customers, and stressed teams.

You need systems that are flexibly scalable. If you want to grow without massive technical problems, cloud technology allows you to scale much faster, smarter, and more cost-effectively in the long term than with local servers.

The cloud is better suited for scaling because the resources required to scale are always limited in on-premise installations. If you want your systems to continue running smoothly as your user base grows, your teams must either add more processing power (CPU, RAM) (also known as vertical scaling) or more servers/computers (scaling horizontally) to their environment. However, by switching to the cloud, all manual scaling steps of the local environment can be skipped.

The cloud supports remote work and distributed teams: Remote work is complicated for companies that still use exclusively local infrastructure. While users can access local installations remotely, maintaining security is difficult with all the passwords, firewalls, VPN barriers, and architectural restrictions. By comparison, cloud solutions can be accessed from anywhere with an Internet connection. Cloud security is already integrated and designed for remote work.

4) Prevent outages (and reduce admin costs) thanks to regulated SLAs

When we compare the monthly subscription costs for the cloud with the costs of software licenses, the cloud appears more expensive at first glance. If we also take into account the costs of migrating from the local environment to the cloud, the cloud is almost always associated with higher investments in the short term. But when we look at long-term value, on-premise environments appear less as a conservative solution and more as a solution that continuously reduces profits.

But why is that? Because the final price of local environments is hidden like an iceberg and could be higher than expected.

System downtime can cost up to three times as much as an annual subscription to the cloud in just a few minutes or hours. Moving from local environments to the cloud can reduce IT costs and resources by half. And that doesn't include operational expenses and the costs of deploying excessive resources (which affect the majority of organizations with on-premises environments).

Local environments also entail a large number of hidden operational and physical costs that are irrelevant to the cloud. This includes, for example, servers, server support, office space/space, maintenance, software upgrades, audits, or electricity costs.

Which is the right cloud for me?

The linkyard cloud with flexible integrations and compliance with European standards

In this model, we operate your applications as a managed service in our highly available and redundant data centers. Our clients include particularly demanding organizations from the financial industry, national security or insurance sectors.

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Data protection-compliant hosting

With our ISO 27001:2013 certified hosting in the EU or Switzerland, you have the option that your data is only stored where you expressly agree. We also comply with industry regulations such as FINMA RS 2018/3 for banks and insurance companies.

Support

If you need our help, you can choose to create a support ticket via email or our support portal, or simply get in touch via our chat-based support channel. Through our chat support, you will usually receive initial feedback within minutes or you can easily start a discussion with us.

Project Management and System Integrations

An important advantage very often proves to be that we support organizations in transforming their organization and manage and implement large and complex IT projects, both agile and with hybrid project methods. In addition to product know-how, we also have extensive experience in using the tools and can therefore discuss process management with you on equal footing.

More Information about our linkyard cloud.

The Atlassian Cloud Bundle in a worry-free package at linkyard

As a certified Atlassian Gold Partner We support you throughout the entire life cycle of your Atlassian Cloud, from design to migration to world-class user support.

Easy subscription management

We manage your Atlassian Cloud subscriptions for Jira and Confluence as well as for other Atlassian products as far as possible. We'll get you new licenses and apps. Procurement and invoicing are carried out by us.
Depending on the product, Atlassian may have restrictions and differences in terms and conditions. The service description is also based on the Jira and Confluence products.

Free training & webinars

An initial, two-hour workshop is included in our bundle for free!

In the workshop, we will give you a brief introduction to the use of the products, user and authorization management, and basic configuration options. During the workshop, you can discuss issues relevant to you, get recommendations for best practices and apps, or be shown how to use the tool in the form of a short ad hoc training session.

Professional advice & support

As in the linkyard cloud, you can contact us via the channels of your choice and usually receive initial feedback within minutes.

Individual system integrations

We implement complex IT projects every day and integrate the tools into your existing processes in the best possible way.

→ More information is available here: Linkyard's Atlassian Cloud Services

What is the right option for our company?

This guide gives you a first point of contact where you will use your Atlassian tools in the future. In order to meet your requirements in the best possible way, Make a non-binding appointment with our team.

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