The benefits of cloud solutions for the agribusiness

Like some other industries, modern Ukrainian agribusiness is rapidly engaging in the latest IT technologies. Early, farmers used only sowing calendars, folk beliefs, weather observations, and the experience of past generations. Modern farmers can use unpiloted and satellite technologies (drones), digital weather stations, automatic irrigation, and soil monitoring systems, and much more. In the fields, they can use modern automated equipment with on-board computers. Such innovations greatly simplify all AGRICULTURE mechanisms. IT solutions also help the agribusiness to be an advanced industry, although farmers have recently come to innovation.

Over the past decades, the agro-industrial complex has become not only one of the leaders of the Ukrainian industry but has reached the same scale as the IT industry. The growing importance of the agricultural sector in the economy is confirmed by the increase in production, its exports, as well as the rapid attraction of significant investments, which also come from overseas.

The development and scaling of the Ukrainian agricultural sector and its establishment as one of the most promising industries caused by several factors:

• increase in production capacity, increase in the industry;
• global reform and modernization agricultural enterprises management system;
• transition of agro-industrial companies to modern IT technologies at all stages: from the preparatory stage to the stage of storage and sale of agricultural products. This is one of the key factors.
• Also, there is a substantial information growth trend in the agro-industrial complex over the past decades.

The specificity of the agricultural sector is that this business is mainly seasonal. So, during the period of sowing, growing, and harvesting, the need for powerful resources and high-quality equipment for employees and managers is the highest. But in winter, for example, there is no such urgent need, so a significant part of physical servers is idle or not used at all.

The involvement of modern technologies in the agricultural complex is inseparably linked with the automation of production processes and the growth of information volumes.

Today, to increase labor productivity and optimize business processes, various CRM and ERP systems, enterprise management programs, and specialized software are used. Of course, you can host all of these programs and systems on personal servers. But this approach requires significant financial investments, constant support of the equipment in proper working condition. Besides, agribusinesses operate mainly with large amounts of data that require fast processing, stable, round-the-clock access, and reliable storage. Placing all data of a company directly in an office is not always safe. The reason is that hackers can access it. And it is usually extremely difficult to recover lost information.

Cloud solutions will help you ensure reliable data storage and simplify your work processes. Clouds make automation of business processes and optimization of work with large amounts of data available for farms of any scale, even small ones. This helps to increase operational efficiency, save financial investments in equipment, and scale an enterprise. And increasing production efficiency together with cost reduction is the goal and the main factor in the development of any business.

Also, considering the seasonal nature of the agribusiness, clouds help pay only for the server resources that are currently needed. This eliminates unnecessary costs and the need to equip your own server rooms, maintain them in decent condition and regularly update them, even when there is no need for these capacities.

1. Farms that are at the beginning of their development, especially in remote parts of Ukraine. This is attributable to the need to set up all the main communication channels, which causes significant financial investments. The use of virtual infrastructures will help significantly save money on hardware.
2. Small farms, as well as developed agricultural holdings, prefer a closed production cycle. This mechanism implements better thanks to modern technologies, which will require decent server equipment.
3. Large enterprises (agricultural holdings) that have started their activities 5-10 ago, now have achieved a significant level of development. Equipment that was used at the beginning of their work is already outdated, so there is a need to upgrade these resources. In this case, the cloud will allow you to omit expenses on new powerful and expensive resources.

For companies that are closely associated with AGRICULTURE, cloud solutions are essential. Apart from the convenient and reliable placement of specialized programs for agribusiness, clouds have a number of other advantages:

1. Security and reliability of data storage. All information is placed outside the office or enterprise. This protects it from losses, damage, and intruder attacks. It means that fraudsters do not have physical access to the data.

Besides, data security is provided by the following security features: snapshot (virtual machine disk images) and backups.

The cost of our services — virtual servers of various configurations of TuchaFlex+ and TuchaBit — already includes two snapshots. Snapshots will help you restore the system and return it to the state it was in when the snapshot was taken. So, you won't lose your data even in the event of critical changes, like after a virus attack.

TuchaBackup service provides backups of all important data. It provides backup copies of files and saves them outside of Ukraine (mainly in German data centers).

2. Cost savings. If you host your work data in the cloud, you do not need to spend money on buying IT equipment. Which must be high quality and powerful to ensure decent and stable work. Also, cloud services allow you to save on maintenance, repair, replacement, and modernization of resources.

3. Convenience and mobility. Clouds give freedom and independence from a specific workplace: employees have access to all the data (according to their access level) located in the cloud, from any corner of the world, and any device. Thereby, you can manage your work processes, stay in touch with your colleagues, and see all the changes in the company's work environment, regardless of your location.

Cloud solutions are useful for both small and medium-sized companies (primarily from an economic point of view), as well as for large enterprises because they reliably store large amounts of data and process them efficiently. And thanks to the special promotional offers that are waiting for you at the end of the article, you will be able to purchase Tucha.ua cloud services on very favorable terms! Hurry up because the term of the offer is limited!

Our services include virtual servers of various configurations (TuchaFlex+, TuchaBit), as well as services for creating data backups (TuchaBackup), profitable website, and mail hosting (TuchaHosting), service for file storage, and sharing (TuchaSync). Let us look at each of them in more detail.

TuchaFlex+ is a solution for transferring both individual applications for work and a company`s entire IT infrastructure to cloud servers. Data centers are located outside of Ukraine (mainly in Germany), and guaranteed availability of the service is 99.9%. TuchaFlex + service is a kind of VPS constructor.

TuchaBit is a balanced configuration service based on the operating system Microsoft Windows with data centers in Ukraine. With the help of the service TuchaBit, you can transfer to the cloud both workplaces and individual programs: accounting, CRM or ERP system, telephony, and other programs necessary for your enterprise operation. Guaranteed availability the of services is 99.0%.

TuchaBackup is designed for creating and storing backup copies of data in foreign data centers (mainly in Germany).

TuchaHosting is a service for fast, reliable, and stable hosting of websites and mail with guaranteed availability at the level of 99.9% and data centers outside of Ukraine.

TuchaSync is a cloud storage solution for hosting and syncing files of all formats.

Tucha.ua Solution Selection Service will help you invest your funds wisely choosing the best service and a sufficient configuration so that the ordered resources will be enough for fast task-solving. Call or write to us, and we will find the best solution for you!

1. Is there a solution if I want to host huge amounts of data in the cloud?

Yes, we have a sufficient selection of services and configurations, so we have solutions for each task. Please contact us!

2. I want to host only a separate application (CRM system, accounting, etc.) in the cloud. Is it possible?

Of course, you can bring the entire infrastructure to the cloud, as well as virtualize individual applications.

3. Is it possible to try your services before ordering?

We offer our potential customers a free trial period of 7 days for any service. During this time, you will be able to assess all the advantages of using cloud solutions and the work of our technical support, so, you can decide on the service.

4. Do you need technical support? If so, which one?

Of course, we provide several types of professional and prompt technical support:

• Migration. If necessary, we help you transfer your data and client settings to a virtual server in our cloud. The cost of the service is 100% of the cost of the server for 1 month at a time, but not less than 30 euros.
• Free basic support. Our service employees maintain the functionality of our infrastructure, ensure its stability and availability. We do not have access to the operating system on your server, so we do not interfere with its operation. We only give you professional consultations.
• Permanent server administration. We get access to your system and can not only consult you but also solve problems related to the operating system and software installed on the server. The cost of the service is 50% of the cost of the server, but not less than 30 euros/month.
• Hourly server administration. Administrator rights are granted to us only for the period of one-time work to fix operating system and software errors. The cost of the service is 500 UAH/hour.

Warranty support. In general, it is the same as server administration, but it is free. Among the important conditions - it is a new virtual machine and only employees of our service have administrator rights. This type of support works only for hosting websites, email, domain zones, and files.

5. Is it possible to scale resources? How to do it?
All the Tucha.ua services are flexible and easy to scale within the available configurations, depending on your needs. To reduce or increase the number of resources, change the service or tariff, please contact us. We will help you to solve any problem quickly and efficiently

Full-fledged development of the agricultural sector in Ukraine is impossible without IT technologies. It would be strange if modern farmers and individual companies actively used modern technologies in growing plants, but all the information would be stored in paper form somewhere in archives. Or, for example, they would not take advantage of the latest solutions that help automate business processes. And at the same time, they would dream of catching up or even overtaking competitors, scaling their business, productivity and profits.

Clouds are one of such innovative solutions that significantly facilitate the business process, as well as help a company or enterprise to work more efficiently and with minimal investment. They save money that can now be invested in production to ensure reliable operation. And the cloud offers secure placement and storage of your data, with round-the-clock access, and the ability for all employees to work in a single space, where they have access to corporate documents, archives, and databases.

Take the maximum from modern technologies, use them in your business and increase performance indicators of your enterprise. And we will help you with this! Contact us 22×7!