Private Cloud Services Without the Server Headaches
For small businesses replacing aging servers, move servers, business apps, files, and backups into a private cloud environment designed around your business — managed by a local Metro Detroit team that keeps everything simple.
Your Server Shouldn’t Still Be Your Biggest IT Risk
Most small businesses do not think about their server until it becomes a problem. For 15–250 user teams, the warning signs usually start stacking up fast.
Aging Hardware, Rising Risk
Old servers get slow, need constant patching, and can fail without warning. Every year they stay, the risk grows — and so does the eventual replacement bill.
Remote Access That Doesn’t Really Work
Your team splits time between home and office but getting into systems is slow, clunky, or breaks constantly. VPN tunnels and one-off workarounds should not be the plan.
Ransomware and Data Loss Fear
Small businesses are a top target. If your data lives only on a local server with a basic backup, one attack can shut everything down.
Public Cloud Bills That Never Make Sense
Microsoft 365 is great for email — but self-managed Azure or AWS costs spiral fast, and nobody knows what the bill actually covers month to month.
How Simply Moves You to the Cloud
Built for small businesses replacing aging servers: no abandoned migrations, no mystery process, and a clear plan with a local team running it from start to finish.
Discovery
We review servers, apps, users, data, backup, and network needs.
Design
We build the right cloud plan around how your team works.
Migration
We move approved systems with a plan built to minimize disruption.
Validation
We test access, performance, apps, permissions, and backup.
Support
Simply manages, monitors, and supports the environment long term.
On-Site Server vs. Public Cloud vs. Simply Private Cloud
Not every cloud path is the same. Here is how the options stack up for a typical 15–250 user Metro Detroit business replacing an aging server.
A Cloud Built for Your Business — Not a Generic Public Platform
Private cloud means your servers, apps, and files live in a controlled cloud environment designed around your business.
Simply helps move the right systems out of the server closet and into a cloud setup that supports secure access, backup, recovery, and day-to-day support.
You get more flexibility than an aging office server, with a local team managing the technical pieces behind it.
Not the Same as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
Microsoft 365 handles email and Office apps. Private cloud handles servers, databases, line-of-business applications, and the infrastructure your business depends on. They can work together — and Simply can manage both.
Your cloud environment
Built around your users, apps, files, access needs, and risk.
Better remote access
Help your team work across the office, home, and multiple locations.
Backup and recovery
Protection planning is part of the conversation, not an afterthought.
One team owns it
Cloud, support, backup, security, network, and users stay connected.
Infrastructure. Apps. Platform. Storage. All Connected.
One cloud environment. Four layers of capability. Managed by a local team you can actually call.
SimplyPrivate CloudCloud Infrastructure
The foundation for your private cloud: servers, networking, access, and core systems managed as one environment.
One cloud view. One local team.
The goal is simple: stop making your business manage separate tech pieces. Simply connects the stack and owns the outcome with you.
What’s Included in Simply Cloud
From moving your server to managing your public cloud tools — here’s how Simply handles it all.
Private Cloud Hosting
Your own dedicated cloud environment at a Michigan data center. Your data doesn't share space with other businesses. More secure, more reliable, and more controllable than public cloud.
Learn MoreCloud Desktops / Remote Access
Give your team secure access to a full work environment from any device, anywhere. No slow VPN tunnels. No “I can only access it from the office” problems.
See Managed ITCloud Storage & File Access
Store files securely and accessibly. Integrate with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, or use Simply Private Storage — with hybrid options for sensitive data that stays local.
See Managed BackupHosted Business Applications
Run accounting software, ERP, CRM, or industry-specific tools from the cloud instead of one office computer. Simply handles hosting, patching, and access.
Ask About Your SoftwareBackup & Disaster Recovery
Backup is a copy. Recovery is the goal. Simply plans both — cloud backups, tested restore procedures, and a real conversation before something goes wrong.
See Managed BackupHybrid & Public Cloud Management
Already on Azure, AWS, or Microsoft 365? Simply manages those too — licensing, cost optimization, security settings, and connecting everything to the rest of your IT stack.
See CybersecurityBackup Is a Copy. Recovery Is the Goal.
Moving to the cloud does not automatically protect your data. Simply builds backup and recovery into the cloud conversation from the start.
If data is deleted, corrupted, encrypted, or unavailable, the question is not only “do we have a backup?” It is “how do we get the business working again?”
What We Help Protect
- Files, folders, and documents
- Servers and virtual machines
- Microsoft 365 and cloud application data
- Databases and line-of-business systems
What Recovery Planning Covers
- File-level restores for accidental deletion
- System recovery for larger failures
- Clear recovery expectations before you need them
- Backup review so you know the plan works
Your Data Protection Stack
Is Simply Cloud Right for Your Business?
Simply works best with small businesses that have 15–250 users and are ready to replace aging servers, improve access, and simplify support.
Small Businesses Replacing a Server
15–250 users ready to get off aging hardware. Move to a managed cloud environment that handles IT, backup, and remote access together.
Growing Companies Adding Locations
Opening a second office or expanding your team? Cloud makes it easier to give new employees access without new infrastructure at every site.
Hybrid or Remote Teams
Staff splitting time between home and office — or field workers who need system access — private cloud solves the access problem cleanly.
Regulated Industries
Healthcare, legal, and financial services benefit from private cloud’s dedicated environment, audit trails, and compliance-ready configurations.
Businesses with Critical Applications
If your accounting software or ERP needs to stay fast and always accessible, private cloud hosting takes that burden off your office hardware.
Co-Managed IT Situations
Large teams with an internal IT person can use Simply for co-managed cloud — Simply handles heavy lifting, your IT person handles day-to-day.
A Local Team That Actually Picks Up the Phone
Since 2010, Simply Technology has been the go-to IT partner for Metro Detroit businesses. We're not a national provider with a ticket queue. We're your team — local, responsive, and invested in your business.
The biggest difference is not just where the infrastructure lives. It is who owns the outcome.
Things Business Owners Usually Ask Us
Sometimes, yes. A new server may solve the hardware problem, but private cloud can also improve remote access, backup planning, scalability, and long-term support. Simply reviews your setup first and helps you compare options honestly.
It can provide more control than many shared setups, but security still depends on configuration, monitoring, access, backup, and support. That is where Simply helps.
Yes. Depending on the setup, your team can access hosted apps, files, or cloud desktops from approved devices and locations.
We review your applications before anything moves. Some can be hosted in the cloud, some may need updates, and some may be better left local for now.
There is no honest one-size-fits-all timeline. After reviewing your environment, Simply gives you a realistic migration plan based on your users, apps, data, and business needs.
Yes. Cloud does not replace backup. Backup and recovery protect you when data is deleted, corrupted, encrypted, or unavailable.
No. Those tools handle email and collaboration. Private cloud supports the servers, apps, storage, desktops, backup, and infrastructure behind your business.
Yes. Simply can manage your cloud, IT support, backup, security, network, phones, cabling, and more. We can also support internal IT teams in a co-managed setup.
Let’s Figure Out What’s Right for Your Business
Not every business needs to move everything to the cloud tomorrow. But if you are a 15–250 user small business replacing a server, dealing with remote access problems, or unsure about backup, it is worth a conversation.
No pressure. No jargon. Just an honest look at your setup and what makes sense.