Cloud Solutions for Business

Public, private or hybrid - which cloud fits your business

Most businesses approach the cloud as though it were a single decision, but there are really three different ways to do it. What separates them is who owns the infrastructure, who is responsible for it, and how much control stays with you.

Public cloud

The infrastructure belongs to a major provider - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or AWS - and you consume what you need from it. No hardware to buy, no server room to maintain, and capacity that grows and shrinks on demand. It is the fastest and cheapest way to start, and it suits most small and mid-sized businesses.

Private cloud

Dedicated infrastructure allocated to you alone, either on your premises or at a provider. It costs more, but gives full control over where data sits, who can reach it, and how it performs. Mainly relevant to organisations under strict regulation, or those running older systems that do not migrate cleanly to public cloud.

Hybrid cloud

The combination, and in practice the most common choice: sensitive data and critical systems stay with you, while mail, files, backup and development environments move to public cloud. You get the savings and flexibility without giving up control over what genuinely requires it.

What moves to the cloud and what stays with you

Not everything has to move, and not everything should. In practice these are the components almost always worth shifting out:

• Mail and file sharing - Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, with access from any place and any device.
• Virtual servers - allocate resources to actual demand instead of buying hardware that ages.
• Backup and recovery - the copy that has to live outside the office anyway.
• Development and test environments - spun up and torn down on demand rather than running all year.

Conversely, an older core system tied to specific hardware, or data that regulation requires you to hold inside Israel, will usually stay put - and that is precisely where the hybrid model starts to make sense.

Cloud adoption - how it actually works

Cloud migrations fail for almost always the same reason: they start with moving data instead of with planning. We work the other way round.

• Mapping - which systems run today, what depends on what, and what is genuinely in use.
• Choosing a model - public, private or hybrid, based on regulation, cost and risk.
• Phased migration - start with one non-critical system, confirm everything works, then continue. Never one big night.
• Ongoing support - monitoring, security updates, permission management and cost control once the move is done.

What really happens to costs

Cloud is not always cheaper - mostly it is more predictable. Instead of a large server purchase every four or five years, there is a fixed monthly cost that is easy to budget. What surprises businesses is what quietly disappears from the ledger: hardware maintenance, operating system licensing, power and cooling, and technician hours spent on failing equipment.

On the other hand, an unmanaged cloud environment inflates quietly - machines left running, storage nobody ever clears. Cost control is part of the service, not an add-on.

Want the fundamentals first? Read our complete guide to cloud computing. And when cloud comes up, cloud backup is the layer you cannot skip.