HigherCloud is a startup company that specializes in providing internet acceleration, cybersecurity protection, and multi-cloud integration services for various businesses. It was founded in May 2020, a time that coincided with a critical moment when the COVID-19 pandemic spurred businesses to eagerly seek digital transformation through cloud services. The company aims to assist more businesses in successfully transitioning and creating global opportunities by offering reliable and comprehensive cloud services.
HigehrCloud excels in cloud cybersecurity protection, cross-border content transmission, live streaming platform technology, and hybrid cloud integration architecture, thereby offering customized comprehensive solutions. These include cybersecurity services that protect against TB-level DDoS attacks using high-tech cleaning centers; internet acceleration services that utilize CDN, including global acceleration, China acceleration, and hybrid cloud acceleration; uninterrupted live streaming platforms that help businesses expand into China and Southeast Asia; and multi-cloud and hybrid cloud integration services optimized for cost-performance value through the best combination of different cloud service prices and features, supplemented by structural health checks.
Flexibly integrating various cloud services to fully demonstrate resilience and flexibility benefits
HigherCloud's General Manager, Chen Han-Sheng, stated that businesses must understand the characteristics and advantages of different cloud services to effectively leverage and enhance the benefits of cloud computing in terms of resilience and flexibility. For those seeking the best compromise between reliability, stability, and SLA (Service Level Agreement) availability, Amazon AWS stands out as the best choice. For enterprises fully integrated with Windows operating systems or other Microsoft software applications, Microsoft Azure offers the best integration and collaborative effectiveness. Google Cloud is undoubtedly the provider of innovative technologies and tools, offering the best value for money. Furthermore, for businesses looking to enter and serve the mainland China market, Alibaba Cloud, provided by China's largest cloud service provider, Alibaba, would be the preferred solution.
However, Google has been completely blocked in mainland China. In response, HigherCloud can resolve this issue through the internet, routing, and ISPs, helping Taiwanese businesses or Chinese audiences to use Google Cloud normally. Priding itself as a top cloud consultant, HigherCloud is committed to expanding its industry reach to become an industry expert and offers clients a range of cloud services including product sales, strategic consulting, cloud architecture implementation, cloud migration, and technical support, thereby accelerating the digital transformation journey of businesses.
▲HigherCloud's General Manager, Chen Han-Sheng
Starting with self-understanding is key to finding the right partnership
hen Han-Sheng emphasizes, "Businesses feel a strong need to transform only when they encounter problems. Currently, over 90% of these problems can be solved in the cloud, which means that realizing the value of cloud computing has become the key to successful business transformation." However, in the process of realizing cloud value, businesses may face four major obstacles: security and compliance risks, business complexity and organizational change, cluttered traditional infrastructure and applications, and a lack of cloud skills in the team.
To address this, businesses must first understand themselves by assessing their existing systems, data, and applications in terms of data sensitivity, security, compliance, high availability, work efficiency, and business value. Then, decide which can be moved to a public cloud and which to a private cloud, with hybrid cloud being the best model that combines agility, security, and compliance.
Moreover, choosing the right partner is crucial, especially in the highly competitive cloud era where making the correct first step into the cloud is essential. HigherCloud can assist businesses in understanding themselves, identifying problems, evaluating, and utilizing different cloud services to solve pain points together. Generally, with HigherCloud's services, businesses can efficiently migrate their critical systems, applications, and data to public/private clouds and help formulate a systematic framework to execute and evaluate future cloud strategies for business value.
Developing a comprehensive digital transformation plan for the cloud to achieve quantitative and qualitative transformation results
Li Jia-Long, the Business and Marketing Director of HigherCloud, states that although each business has its digital transformation objectives, there are three common goals: improving work efficiency, reducing operational expenses, and developing potential customers. Since digital transformation is an ongoing process, it requires a solid plan, including setting goals for 3, 5, or 10 years, and prioritizing different cloud projects for implementation. Haier Cloud aids businesses in leveraging emerging technologies such as containerization, serverless computing architectures, cloud-native, and AI to unlock benefits like developing potential customers, enhancing remote work productivity, and automating infrastructure.
▲Li Jia-Long, the Business and Marketing Director of HigherCloud
In assisting businesses, HigherCloud divides the cloud adoption or digital transformation process into several steps: (1) exploring needs and goals, (2) assessing feasibility, (3) designing and planning architecture and solutions, (4) implementation, and (5) operations and maintenance. Li Jia-long mentions that assessing the benefits at different stages requires both quantitative and qualitative analyses, with cost savings being a significant factor in the quantitative evaluation. This encompasses computation, storage, software licenses, manpower, security, networking, and data center facilities. In addition, businesses must qualitatively assess intangible benefits like availability, scalability, risk reduction, transparency, and flexibility.
Chen Han-Sheng cites the example of Double 11 in China, a critical battleground for many businesses to promote their products and services. HigherCloud set up a broadcasting station for a global education platform, including live streaming, video on demand, and CDN architecture, to promote products globally. HigherCloud ensures the optimal allocation of cloud resources and performs various performance tuning and stability adjustments for live streaming, especially considering the compatibility of different cloud platforms with various live streaming formats, to achieve universal live streaming capabilities.
"Higher Than You Think" has always been our philosophy, allowing us to continue providing quality cloud services that exceed expectations and proactively surpass business needs," Chen concludes ambitiously.
Source：https://technews.tw/2021/08/26/highercloud-unveils-the-value-of-cloud-based-transformation-advertorial/