How cloud computing is evolving to help the mid-market
April 6, 2014
Grazed from BusinessTechnology. Author: Editorial Staff.
At Phoenix we are taking a different approach to cloud services. We have many years of experience in delivering services remotely to our customers and have a well-established estate of UK data centres on our own high speed network.
By its very nature, the IT industry is great at confusing the world with new technologies and even more new ways of describing them. The fact is that cloud is a fundamental shift in the way IT is delivered, but the technology behind it is nothing new. Wide-area networks have existed for many years, as have data centres. What really is new is the level of innovation and improvements applied to these technologies that give cloud the potential to change IT service delivery forever…
The advent of cloud-based delivery of IT services, as is often the case in IT, has quickly been adopted in enterprise businesses – businesses that generally have teams of highly skilled IT staff. The demand for these services has driven a global race to provide high availability, low-cost commoditised services which have now become commonplace in large enterprise business. The challenge for many smaller businesses is that without the necessary skills internally most of these services remain inaccessible. With CloudSure UK, Phoenix has brought enterprise class cloud services to the mid-market. What makes CloudSure UK different is that you don’t need to be a highly skilled technician in order to access the full range of cloud delivered packages and services. Phoenix has packaged them up into a range of easily understandable, off-the-shelf packages that still give the benefits of low-cost and high availability, but without the need for a degree in computer science!…
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