HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CLOUD SOLUTION
How to pick a cloud service provider?
PRIVATE CLOUD
Offering both flexibility and control, you manage your own dedicated resources within a third party data Centre.
HYBRID CLOUD
A mix of private and public clouds to blend services such as office 365 for email with applications that you don’t want in a shared environment.
PUBLIC CLOUD
Applications, services and storage that are publically available and make use of shared resources managed by the cloud provider.
BENEFITS OF MOVING TO CLOUD
MAINTENANCE
71% of businesses have easier applications management and administration after deploying a private cloud solution.
COST
46% of companies implementing a private cloud solution have reduced the costs and complexity of their IT infrastructure.
SECURITY
Software is updated automatically to fix bugs and content is stored remotely. 61% of best-in-class businesses currently plan to use cloud-based backup and recovery.
INNOVATION
Businesses leveraging mobile-video capabilities in their cloud-based unified commons platforms are twice as likely to improve customer service and boost employee training & development.
FLEXIBILITY
Provide field teams with the tools they need on the go to deliver first-class customer service.
TIME SAVED
45% of companies implementing a private cloud solution have seen reductions in the time to deploy applications.
SCALABILITY
Rapidly scale capacity up and down. 48% of businesses selected cloud services for their ability to scale the solution with 14% of companies downsizing their IT after cloud adoption.
COULD YOU BE MISSING OUT ON LARGER PROFIT MARGINS?
Midmarket organization utilizing the cloud for their ERP solution is 1.9 times more profitable over 24 months [compared to those organizations without cloud ERP.] SMBs using cloud services grow 26% faster than those who use no cloud tools-and-they are 21% more profitable.
ARE YOU TAKING UNNECESSARY RISKS?
Businesses who lead the way in business continuity and disaster recovery typically deploy cloud solutions and therefore are 5 times less likely to experience downtime and the average length of that downtime is 28 times shorter. Budget on business continuity solutions will be significantly smaller than the high costs of failure, if disaster strikes.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE CLOUD
Looking at a simple six layer technology stack available for virtualization and cloud computing, there are a staggering 1.6 billion permutations to choose from
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Storage
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Virtualization layer
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Application layer
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Physical servers
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Management/orchestration layer
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Networking
71% of professional services companies choose to implement their solutions in the cloud for lower total costs of ownership. This means that they trust software vendors to manage their IT infrastructure and operations, as well as the application.
SUMMARY
The desire to be agile when it comes to technology has attracted the best-in-class businesses to the cloud. Why?
Cloud allows businesses to quickly adapt to the latest technologies for continued growth and provides a myriad of opportunities for future development.
Of the best-in-class businesses, IT infrastructure leaders are 60% more likely to leverage third party cloud providers to implement and help to run their businesses critical applications.
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