It is true that cloud computing can offer tremendous benefits to small and medium sized businesses, delivering enterprise-style IT for a fraction of the cost.
You can reduce your energy consumption and carbon footprint, you can ensure everything you do is accessible from everywhere you go, and you can improve your data security and disaster recovery. You can even do all these things and save money at the same time.
But you need to be sure of what you’re doing to ensure that the move to cloud computing delivers the benefits you want rather than the problems that you don’t.
One of the things you will learn on the day is that there are really two types of cloud computing providers out there, and they will sell you two entirely different types of cloud computing solution.
The first kind will sell you “pointed” solutions: separate deals for easy things like email, Microsoft Office, file storage or online backup. These products are great technologies, and they are common to every business, which makes them easy to provision in the cloud.
What these vendors won’t do is ensure that these products are integrated with your existing systems or that they are structured to fulfil the real needs of your business going forwards.
The second kind of cloud provider is know is as a cloud integrator, and it’s their job to ensure that your migration to the cloud is fully integrated with all your IT systems and business processes.
They take a holistic approach to ensure that nothing is missed or left behind when you move to the cloud and it is this attention to detail that ensures the cost savings you need are delivered along with other benefits such as increased systems availability, improved IT performance and full accessibility anytime, anywhere.
To deliver the best possible business outcomes from cloud computing its important to avoid cherry picking only the easy items and look at the whole of your IT as one organic system serving all your business needs. Otherwise you could be left with somewhat irreversible and very costly mistakes down the road.
A cloud integrator has the experience to see your business as a whole, to listen to and interpret your requirements effectively and to take a hands-on approach to end-to-end implementation that leaves you with the IT systems you need.
soVision are an experienced cloud integrator based out of Bristol offering to share with you their knowledge and expertise on “Going to the Cloud”.
To learn more come to soVision’s free “Going to the Cloud” seminar on the 5th of August to discover how you can avoid the pitfalls and harvest the advantages of the move to cloud computing.
Or call 0845 4503669 and a friendly member of the soVision team can get you sorted.soVision - Complete IT Services Provider
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