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 provide businesses with fewer and fewer reasons to stick with on-premises solutions.

The advantages of a cloud solution

1) Cloud increases team productivity

The cloud boosts your team's productivity by doing one thing: shortening the IT team's to-do list.

In on-premises environments, IT teams have a whole host of tasks to perform - from server setup and replacement parts to troubleshooting major incidents and configuring the latest security features. With a cloud solution, the cloud provider handles many of these tasks. This gives the IT team more time to focus on the tasks that add the most value to your business.

When you host your software and products locally, engineering teams always have to invest more time. Scaling storage, inventory, or compute power to meet the needs of your users can take several days or even weeks and months. Upgrades and security patches require that you make time for them on a regular basis (not to mention the mental overload of scheduling and managing them). And major incidents that occur and the occasional late-night flurry of activity or security breach response is 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're using your software and computing power in an on-premises environment, manual upgrades are required every time new features are released (typically two to four times a year). The obvious costs fall on the IT team, which must invest time and money to make changes. They also often have to plan for downtime, which can impact the entire business.

Because the cloud offers automatic scaling and instant security and feature upgrades, teams can move quickly and flexibly. They can make changes to processes and take advantage of new features and benefits that improve your workflows. And you can do it without lengthy approval processes, delays, or IT overhead.

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, growing too fast without scalable technology can have nasty consequences: Doubling product usage sounds fantastic. But not having technology in place to support it can lead to major incidents, unhappy customers, and stressed teams.

You need systems that are flexibly scalable. If you want to grow without massive technical issues, you can scale much faster, smarter, and cheaper in the long run with cloud technology than with on-premises servers.

The cloud is better for scaling because resources needed for scaling are always limited in on-premises installations. If you want your systems to continue running smoothly as your user base grows, your teams will need to either add more processing power (CPU, RAM) to existing computers (also known as vertical scaling) or add more servers/computers to your environment (horizontal scaling). However, by moving to the cloud, you can skip all the manual scaling steps of the on-premises environment.

The cloud supports remote work and distributed teams: For organizations still using on-premises-only infrastructure, remote work is complicated. Users can access on-premises installations remotely, but maintaining security is difficult with all the passwords, firewalls, VPN barriers, and architectural limitations. In comparison, cloud solutions can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. Cloud security is already built in and designed to work remotely.

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

If we compare the monthly subscription costs for the cloud with the costs for software licenses, the cloud appears more expensive at first glance. If we take into account the additional costs of migrating from the on-premise environment to the cloud, the cloud is almost always associated with higher investments in the short term. However, if we look at the long-term value, on-premises environments appear less as a conservative solution and more as one that continually erodes profits.

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

System downtime can cost up to three times as much as an annual subscription to the cloud in a matter of minutes or hours. By moving from on-premises environments to the cloud, IT effort and resources can be cut in half. And that's not even taking into account the operational expenses and costs of over-provisioning (which affects the majority of organizations with on-premises environments).

Local environments also come with a large number of hidden operational and physical costs that are not an issue with the cloud. These include, for example, servers, server support, office space, maintenance, software renewal, audits or power 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 customers include particularly demanding organizations from the financial industry, national security or insurance companies.

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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 explicitly agree. We also comply with industry regulations such as FINMA RS 2018/3 for banks and insurance companies.

Support

If you need our assistance, 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 can easily initiate a discussion with us.

Project management and system integration

An important advantage very often proves to be that we support organizations in the transformation of their organization and lead and realize large and complex IT projects, both agile and with hybrid project methods. Thus, in addition to product know-how, we also have extensive experience from the application of the tools and can thus also discuss process management with you at eye level.

More information about our linkyard cloud.

The Atlassian Cloud Bundle in a carefree package at linkyard

As certified Atlassian Gold Partners, we support you through the entire lifecycle of your Atlassian Cloud, from conception to migration to first-class user support.

Simple Subscription Management

We take over the management of your Atlassian Cloud Subscriptions for Jira and Confluence as well as for other Atlassian products as far as possible. We procure new licenses and apps for you. The procurement and invoicing are done by us.
Depending on the product, there may be restrictions and differences in the conditions on the part of Atlassian. The service description is based on the products Jira and Confluence.

Free training & webinars

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

In the workshop, we will give you a brief introduction to the use of the products, the user and authorization management as well as the basic configuration options. During the workshop, you can discuss relevant questions with us, get recommendations for best practices and apps, or have us show you how to use the tool as a small ad hoc training session.

Professional advice & support

As with the linkyard cloud, you can contact us through the channels of your choice and usually receive an initial response within minutes.

Individual system integrations

We implement complex IT projects on a daily basis and integrate the tools into your existing processes in the best possible way.

→ Further information is available here: linkyard's Atlassian Cloud Services

So what is the right option for our business?

This guide offers you a first point of contact where you will operate your Atlassian tool in the future. In order to meet your requirements in the best possible way, why not arrange a non-binding appointment with our team?

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