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Embrace the Cloud

You can't match its capability.

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Your Challenge

  • The growth of platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service providers enables IT to look at alternatives to providing these services directly through IT staff or facilities.
  • Many organizations are still leery of the cloud and hesitate to consider it as a serious option for IT applications or infrastructure.

 

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Our Advice

Critical Insight

In many cases these services can be implemented faster and for lower initial cost than the in-house alternative. And often, the quality of these services is better than that provided internally.

There are four main drivers of cloud adoption:

  1. Open new doors:  It lets smaller organizations do things they wouldn’t normally be able to afford.
  2. Fast deployment: Testing a new idea without committing significant internal resources
  3. Rapid change: The ability to ramp up or down, or to deploy resources in hours rather than weeks
  4. Flexibility: Scale up or down if cyclical or seasonal demand greater resources
Impact and Result
  • Adapt to the business model changing suddenly and unpredictably
  • Adopt new technologies (e.g. mobile, social) and develop new strategies
  • Respond to an increase in client & staff demand and sophistication
  • Think strategically: You can't cut your way to success, and the status quo is expensive

Get to Action

  1. Understand the value of Cloud computing
  2. Select a vendor in the Cloud
  3. Implement a cloud solution in a small enterprise

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