In the first step, you must decide how much protection is required for the data you want to manage with the software. For data that requires particular protection, you should choose a form of offer where the software is operated within your sphere of influence, i.e. on-premise, housing or dedicated hosting and, if necessary, private cloud. The latter, however, only applies if the operator is based in the EU and is not a US provider subject to the CLOUD Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , because otherwise US secret services can access your data.
If the data is less worthy of protection, shared greece number dataset hosting or a public cloud is sufficient. However, it has recently become apparent that public clouds are a highly attractive target for hackers because a single break-in can be used to access the data of a large number of companies for industrial espionage or blackmail. The effort that the hackers - some of whom are supported by the state - undertake is correspondingly high. The effort required for countermeasures by the service provider should therefore also be just as high. But this does not always work, as the hacks of Microsoft cloud services last year show.
In the second step, you have to decide whether you want to take over the technical operation of the software. If you have IT expertise and a data center in-house, then on-premise operation is recommended. This is usually also the cheapest option because you do everything yourself.
If you have IT expertise but do not have your own data center, we recommend housing or hosting in an external data center. This is a bit more expensive because you have to rent the IT infrastructure from the data center operator.
If, however, you want to outsource the technical support completely, the public cloud or the exclusive, but even more expensive private cloud are the right choice. In both cases, you rent a complete solution consisting of hardware and software.
As you can see, there is no one perfect solution when it comes to operating software, but rather a multitude of different options for individual cases, and each option has its justification.
PS Since AGNITAS AG, as a provider of software for email and marketing automation, offers its customers all of the above-mentioned types of offers, we see ourselves in a position to evaluate these types of offers neutrally.