Rashid Maknin, Senior Product Manager
5 min read
Should you opt for web-based infrastructure to fully manage cloud print for you? The cloud computing market keeps growing and forces organizations to pick up the pace of their digital transformation strategy.
This becomes obvious when you realize that by 2027, Gartner predicts that +70% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to accelerate their business initiatives. By 2025, the public cloud computing market will be worth $800 billion.
The big question is: Why are companies migrating their workloads to the cloud? Why should you? And to dig even deeper, why is it worth it to go the true cloud technology route?
True cloud solutions are software coded to successfully perform and scale within a fully hosted multi-tenant cloud environment, free from on-premises infrastructure dependency. The solutions are designed to provide companies with new levels of cost-efficiency, flexibility, durability, and continuous innovation.
True cloud technology has made its way into the printing industry. Read on to learn how you can manage cloud print from a multi-tenant, true cloud setup, and how print pioneers like HP and Konica Minolta make moving print to the cloud a breeze.
Manage Cloud Print with True Cloud Solutions
Many companies still choose a hybrid solution that lets them manage their print partly in the cloud and partly on-premises. At the same time, new trends suggest that more companies are looking to expand to a full-out cloud-first strategy with a cloud print solution embedded into their IT infrastructure.
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Unlike a hybrid cloud deployment, true cloud printing systems are entirely run from the cloud without any reliance on on-premises infrastructure.
Here’s a rundown of the seven key attributes that make up true cloud solutions like SAFEQ Cloud:
- The solution can seamlessly be deployed from anywhere.
- Cloud software gives you a unified infrastructure for all things print and scan.
- The only on-prem infrastructure needed is the printers themselves.
- The print software provider manages updates and patches.
- The platform offers a similar experience and service regardless of vendor.
- True cloud removes the need for additional components such as VPNs.
- The solution supports cloud-based user authentication (like Okta, Azure, and more).
The Benefit of True Cloud Printing
Customers who want to manage cloud print effectively and take advantage of simplified experiences will benefit from multi-tenant true cloud solutions. Full-fledged true cloud printing turns the table on traditional print capabilities and offers the following benefits.
With SAFEQ Cloud, we connect your print infrastructure with the latest cloud technology to help your business become an intelligently networked workplace.
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1. True Cloud Solutions are Cost-Effective
True cloud printing reduces costs largely since your organization is not required to manage its technical infrastructure. You effectively pay a fixed monthly fee based on your company’s unique needs and are not required to pay for additional unused capacity, infrastructure, or on-site support.
With a cloud software license, upgrades and maintenance are included in your deal so you’ll never need a buffer for unexpected costs related to your print infrastructure.
2. Cloud Infrastructures are Extra Resilient and Safe
When migrating to the cloud, there are inevitable considerations you’ll have to make. If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that true cloud solutions that manage print exclusively from the cloud are resilient and secure.
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True cloud solutions have adroit IT teams available to manage the software from secure, reliable, and compliant data centers that bring consistent service, advanced data privacy protection, and proactive security mechanisms to all customers, wherever you are.
True cloud technology provides companies with multi-layered security to protect against a multi-dimensional threat landscape.
- Zero trust architecture
- A broad range of authentication
- Data separation and encryption
- Secure print release (pull printing)
- ... and much more
3. Get access to the Latest Version Always
A true cloud system is built from the ground up and developed to function in the cloud with ideal performance. True cloud technology vendors manage and oversee the software in their inherent secure multi-tenant cloud environment. Customers then have access to the cloud environment—the same real-time, up-to-date version.
No matter where you are, where you’re headed, or what device you’re using, you’ll have easy access to the latest version of your cloud print infrastructure, made possible with pure cloud-embedded terminals.
What’s great about the multi-tenant SaaS route is that any new implementations or enhancements requested by one tenant will immediately be available to all tenants. True cloud providers ensure you’re regularly and transparently being upgraded to take advantage of the latest solution innovations and benefits.
4. True Cloud Systems are Flexible and Scalable
There are many great things to be said about true cloud solutions.
One of the capacities that deserve extra recognition is that they allow you to accelerate your digital transformation and cloud journey—at your pace, and on your schedule. Because true cloud systems are scalable, they allow businesses to grow and easily expand their cloud print services as needed. This allows you to oversee your cloud print environment and usage, and easily adjust your print services to match current business needs.
Being more flexible increases your ability to innovate and adapt faster, ultimately boosting your business growth.
True Cloud Technology Offered by Our Partners
True cloud advancements have made it a sleek process for partners to launch their cloud-based, multi-tenant software-as-a-service printing solutions. By working with industry leaders like HP and Konica Minolta (KM), we can deliver next-generation technology today.
Our Pure Cloud solution (SAFEQ Cloud) connected to the HP Workpath platform or KM IWS platform allows a completely seamless cloud deployment without the need for any on-premises infrastructure. True cloud printing is ready and accessible in just a few minutes.
As a result, it's never been easier to enhance our customers' cloud journey by connecting their whole print and scan infrastructure to the cloud and transitioning their IT infrastructure from paper-based workflows to digital.
Pure Cloud removes the requirement for any on-premises elements (like gateways). Instead, IT departments seamlessly set up the communication between the license and the MFP. The software is directly embedded into the device.
FAQs on True Cloud Solutions
1) What is True Cloud Technology?
True cloud is a term coined for software designed for and coded in a cloud environment. Manufacturers design solutions from scratch for public cloud usage specifically. These solutions are also known as multi-tenant SaaS solutions, a type of cloud architecture where multiple tenants utilize the same software version.
Users (or ‘tenants’) can use true cloud solutions to store applications, data, and other requirements while keeping data access restricted to authorized users. The software provider manages the infrastructure on behalf of customers, so IT departments only have to think about setting up a subscription and monitoring (and adjusting) usage.
True cloud solutions mean vendors offer access to a multi-tenanted cloud platform. The platform is not limited by users or storage restrictions. It is a service that is held in a shared online environment. The cloud service providers have full ownership of the running and management of the software, reducing costs and level of commitment for customers.
Each company gets its own isolated tenant in the cloud platform where they keep ownership of their data and can enjoy auto-updated software functionality.
2) Can You Manage True Cloud Printing with SAFEQ Cloud?
Yes, SAFEQ Cloud supports true cloud printing. SAFEQ Cloud is a native cloud solution that offers a variety of print architectures, where true cloud is one option. We offer a full-featured, multi-tenant public cloud infrastructure, and hybrid deployment through OMNI Bridge, and our platform is created to run with true cloud-embedded features and integrations.
Final Points
Accelerating your digital transformation journey with top-shelf, future-ready technology ensures you won’t have to make software changes as your business scales. This is why cloud solutions are a great next step for digitizing office infrastructures and modernizing your IT department.
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Migrating to cloud-first infrastructures is a significant process that inevitably demands some level of time investment. As such, you must be familiar with your preferred platform before committing to it.
This is why we offer a guided demo and a full 30-day free trial of SAFEQ Cloud. Leverage a guided demo and free trial license for a full month and once it’s concluded, set up your new cloud-first print infrastructure in just a few minutes.
Get your red-carpet tour of the SAFEQ Cloud true cloud solution right here.
