What is cloud computing?
Published by Dave Murray on January 6, 2010 at 2:26 pm. Filed under Cloud Computing
Convergence HDIT helps you utilize new technologies to help you decrease support costs, increase productivity and improve your bottom line. Cloud Computing is an exciting resource that you should consider for your company.
Cloud Computing allows us to centralize and consolidate resources to reduce costs, increase scalability, improve flexibility and manage risks. Cloud Computing has become so ubiquitous that you are probably using it and don’t even know it. Free on line applications like Google Gmail, and Yahoo Calendar, as well as paid applications like Salesforce, GotoMeeting, and QuickBooks Online are all examples of commonly used cloud applications.
There are several key reasons Cloud Computing is growing so rapidly:
- Cost: Can be greatly reduced. Capital Expenditures (CapEx) is converted to Operational Expenditures (OpEx). Pricing on utility computing applications like hosted Exchange is fine-grained with usage-based options and fewer IT skills are required in house.
- Agility: Users are able to rapidly deploy new services.
- Computer and location independence: Users are able to connect anywhere regardless of their location or device (smart phones as well as computers).
- Pooling of resources: The ability to share costs across a large pool of users providing a better ability to handle unexpected loads in usage and provide greater efficiency.
- Increased Reliability: By utilizing redundant sites continued operations are assured. This reliability is driving the fastest growing categories in Cloud Computing backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
- Scalability: Near real-time access to resources without having to engineer for unexpected loads.
- Security: If properly implemented the security of your organization can be increased.
- Easy Green IT: Sustainability is improved through resource utilization, more efficient systems.
- Support and Maintenance: Applications are easier to maintain, since they don’t have to be installed on each user’s computer. They are easier to support and improve because changes as well as updates reach each server and clients instantly.
As you can see there are a wealth of benefits when we considering the “Cloud”. Contact your Convergence representative to see if this is a good option for your organization. In the following posts we will explore each aspect of the Cloud and how you can use it to improve your company.
