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Use Cloud Computing to Achieve Small Enterprise Savings

Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.

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Your Challenge

  • Situation. Cloud computing offers a compelling opportunity for small businesses to reduce IT costs. Cloud costs are orders of magnitude lower than the per unit costs of internally developed IT resources.
  • Complication. Can the cloud be trusted? Are there hidden costs and pitfall areas that need to be considered?
  • Solution. It's all about cost per unit of capacity plus risk management. Evaluate the capacity and risk requirements of candidate workloads as well as cloud providers to find a match that will save the enterprise money.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • Low-cost barrier to entry and rapid deployment of cloud solutions provides proof on concept without breaking the bank. However, low-cost entry does not mean lower overall cost.
  • For small enterprises, the cloud (like other disruptive technology) is about risk management and risk tolerance. Small enterprises tend to have little to spend and less to lose than larger enterprises.
Impact and Result

Info-Tech's three rules of cloud investment provide a framework for asking the right questions about the enterprise's tolerance for the main risk factors of the cloud and its ability to mitigate that risk.


Get to Action

  1. Track what your peers are doing in this area

    Take advantage of lessons learned and get actionable advice from leaders at organizations like yours.

  2. Master external cloud basics

    Quickly and intelligently leverage the cloud.

  3. Evaluate cloud computing options

    Assess risk tolerance and mitigate that risk for your organization.

Tags

virtualization, Software-as-a-service, SaaS, Platform as a Service, PaaS, IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service, internal cloud, private cloud, cloud compuing, cloud storage, public cloud, external cloud

If you like this, you may also like:

1. Three Rules for Evaluating a Cloud
2. Cloud 101: Small Enterprise Cloud Basics and the Rule of Threes
3. FY2012 Cloud Research Agenda Discussion Document
4. Utility Infrastructure Meets Cloud Computing
5. Storyboard: Use Cloud Computing to Achieve Small Enterprise Savings

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Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.

Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Server & Storage Virtualization
1. Get Moving with Server Virtualization
Save money while building an agile, efficient and resilient server infrastructure.
2. Vendor Landscape Plus: Server Virtualization
Enable server efficiency and cost savings from consolidation to internal cloud.
3. Avoid Server Virtualization Implementation Pain
Virtualization is not a magic bullet. Poor scoping of infrastructure and business needs will lead to implementation pain.
4. Leverage Server Virtualization for DR Affordability and Agility
Virtualization is not just for consolidation - drive cost and complexity out of system availability and restore.
5. Build an Optimized Infrastructure-as-a-Service Internal Cloud
The best computing cloud is the one you've already started with server virtualization.
6. Use Cloud Computing to Achieve Small Enterprise Savings
Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.
7. Vendor Landscape: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Control costs while expanding your infrastructure possibilities.
8. Manage & Plan Capacity for the Internal Cloud
You cannot afford to assume that the data center has unlimited capacity; this is even more true for the internal cloud.
9. Transform Utility Infrastructure into a Cloud Service
A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud.
10. Vendor Landscape Plus: Cloud Orchestration
Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.
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