How to Take Your Enterprise Applications to the Cloud
July 2, 2013
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Mark Clayman.
With so many stories about cloud computing, IT outsourcing, hosting, SaaS solutions and managed services, we should all be well beyond the question of whether organizations should be moving their enterprise applications to the cloud. For those companies that have not yet started to move these applications outside of their own four walls or, worse yet, have yet to develop a plan to do so, a window is ever shrinking on your ability to keep up with your competitors. Why?
Because unless your value proposition to your customers is managing data centers, connectivity, routers, firewalls, servers, storage, backups, operating systems, databases, applications, etc., you’ll always be a step or maybe even two or three behind cloud service providers that do this day in and day out as part of their core business model…
When an organization moves its enterprise applications to the cloud and it’s done right, the benefits are compelling and real. The list of benefits is not short and the following is not meant to be all encompassing:
- Your IT capital expenditures will be significantly reduced and potentially eliminated. Whether it’s data center costs, power, cooling, servers, networking or storage, you will now leverage someone else’s investment.
- Your operating expenses will drop. How significantly? It depends on how much you decide to leverage your service provider’s offerings, but from labor to maintenance expenses, you will now be spending a fraction of a larger pool of resources…
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