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Hardware iron, dedicated north that won’t come for three months. A cloud invoice that grows faster than the business. Data stored somewhere abroad, under foreign legislation. And an outage that no one expected, or knows exactly where it occurred or when the global provider will fix it. This is not a future scenario. It is a reality that more and more Slovak companies are dealing with today. <\/h4>\n\n

Why the approach to IT infrastructure is changing<\/h5>\n\n

It’s Monday morning and the IT manager of a technology company is dealing with a problem that could threaten the entire company. A dedicated server running key company applications is reaching performance limits. The company is growing, the customers are growing, and the infrastructure can’t keep up. The solution seems simple – order a new server. <\/p>\n\n

But the reality is different in today’s geopolitical situation. The supplier will not announce the delivery date for several months. At the same time, the price of hardware is significantly higher than a year ago, and the costs of operating and managing the infrastructure are significantly higher. Plus the company needs capacity immediately. <\/p>\n\n

More and more companies are dealing with similar situations today. The traditional IT infrastructure model, built on in-house servers, is starting to hit its limits. Hardware is thus limiting growth. <\/p>\n\n

Model situation 1. Production enterprise in Trnava <\/strong>A medium-sized company with 80 employees needs to expand its IT infrastructure as the volume of data from its production lines grows. They order new servers. The delivery time is 22 weeks and the price has risen by 18 percent in the meantime. The IT manager stands in front of management and explains why a company that is growing has to wait half a year for a piece of hardware. No one in the room wants to hear it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

\ud83d\udca1Local cloud provider has infrastructure already built and scalable instantly. The company pays for capacity, not physical assets, and isn’t waiting for a container from Asia. <\/p>\n\n

Cloud as the logical next step<\/h5>\n\n

It is in situations like this that companies start to rethink the way they build their IT infrastructure. The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model allows you to leverage computing power, storage and network resources without having to invest in your own hardware. Capacity can be increased virtually instantly and only pay for what is actually used. In addition, a problem or complete service outage is resolved by the local provider almost instantly. <\/p>\n\n

The cloud is thus gradually becoming a standard part of enterprise infrastructure. According to Eurostat data, more than half of European businesses now use cloud services and this proportion is growing every year. <\/p>\n\n

Geopolitics enters the legislative world of IT<\/h5>\n\n

The majority of the global cloud market today is in the hands of US technology companies. For many companies, this hasn’t been a major issue for a long time. In recent years, however, the situation has been changing. Geopolitical tensions, regulatory interventions by states or debates about access to data are causing businesses to become more concerned about digital sovereignty. <\/p>\n\n