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Cloud computing changes the way we think about technology. Cloud is a computing model providing web-based software, middleware and computing resources on demand. By deploying technology as a service, you give users access only to the resources they need for a particular task. This prevents you from paying for idle computing resources. Cloud computing can also go beyond cost savings by allowing your users to access the latest software and infrastructure offerings to foster business innovation.
How is Cloud creating something new, or improved an existing business situation?
Financial performance (shareholder value) is driven by the company’s “value proposition” of its products and services. IT is part of that proposition; it is part of the customer experience. Cloud offers new sources of revenue. Value today can be lost tomorrow … hence need to be agile. Business – including time to market, improving customer experience, etc., attributes that bring business impact – is the top driver for cloud computing. CIOs strive to provide business with the services it needs, when it needs it, within limited resource constraints. However, with legacy datacenters and silos of information, this was very difficult to achieve. Businesses are realizing that the state of IT, as it exists today, is simply unsustainable. With a traditional x86 computing model, the OS and applications are tightly bound to the hardware, leading to significant challenges. Typically companies spend more than 70% of their IT budgets on routine infrastructure and application maintenance, leaving only 30% of the IT budget to go into Innovation and Competitive Advantage. This is a reflection of the poor manageability and flexibility of the current infrastructure. First, there are the costs of running the datacenter.
These costs take several different forms; there are hardware, energy, and real estate costs to name a few. The notion of computing in a “cloud” stands to redefine computing as we know it, making IT infrastructure, software and services more affordable, accessible, scalable and elastic, giving organizations—both large and small—an ideal IT infrastructure at a much lower cost. So, get the most out of finite resources, optimize costs by reducing and avoiding spending, make costs transparent, govern investments, help make right investment decisions, increase utilization, improve performance and consequently, returns!
# Leverage virtualization to transform physical silos into elastic, virtual capacity
# Increase automation thru built-in policy-driven management
# Move from static, physical security to dynamic, embedded security
# Move from traditional to a virtual Desktop environment
# Leverage your virtualized Datacenter and “journey” to the cloud.
Adapt and change quickly, effectively, sense and respond, sustain value, continuity and continuously, improve your customer experience… If you don’t, someone else will. For more information about Nextdata Solutions Cloud / Managed Services please contact a Services Representative here.