Enterprise Cloud Computing
Enterprise cloud computing is a controlled environment that offers the rapid and flexible provisioning of compute power, storage, software, and security services to meet your organization’s demands. It combines the processes of a best-in-class organization with the agility of managed, global infrastructure to make your IT faster, better, more cost-effective and safer. Enterprise cloud computing allows your company to act quickly, deal with unknowns and provides the ability to change your mind later as you learn more about your IT needs.
FOR THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS BUYER, ENTERPRISE CLOUD SERVICES…
- Deliver greater business agility, allowing you to move quickly
- Increase user satisfaction through rapid response and delivery
- Allow you to better deal with unknown outcomes because you can add, remove and change resources as you learn more
- Maintain IT control
- Enhance innovation bandwidth
- Allow your current IT resources to focus on higher priorities
FOR THE STRATEGIC TECHNICAL BUYER, ENTERPRISE CLOUD SERVICES…
- Are architected for high availability because failure is expensive
- Deliver predictable and scalable performance
- Provide regulatory compliance and security at the environment and user level
- Allow access to managed services as needed
- Offer live phone and email support
- Deliver no downtime with planned maintenance windows
In contrast, commodity cloud computing may be fine for some companies, but many enterprise corporations are not going to be comfortable outsourcing their information and services to an internet-based commodity cloud. For those agencies and corporations, keeping such precious data under your control and having greater service and configuration capabilities is extremely important. Therefore, Enterprise cloud computing is the answer.
WHEN ENTERPRISE CLOUD COMPUTING MAKES SENSE FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Every IT leader needs the ability to quickly and rapidly provision new infrastructure to support business needs. But many times they’ll also need the ability to deal with unknowns – such as how successful an application will be, or not. Similarly, organizations will likely need to change their mind later about not only the size of an environment, but also, how it is configured.
Enterprise Cloud Computing makes sense when you:
- Need the freedom to change, add or remove resources later – without a risk of vendor lock-in
- Need rapid ability to provision IT services for a number of projects, but are not sure how much the applications and resources will grow, if at all
- Require more than a basic cloud environment with specific or limited configuration options because your applications and systems have complex needs that will change over time
- Will need to be able to add or remove resources to your cloud computing environment quickly on the fly, without making signification configuration changes or needing to rebuild the entire environment which could include downtime
- Need to be able to predict your costs
- Would like an engagement model that provides managed services as well as desk, phone and email support when needed (24/7)
- Have a constant flow of server requests, that sometimes exceed the time and resources available from your staff and need to increase your response time to better serve the organization
- Require a high level of IT control because you have multiple applications and they need to be managed within the same systems
ENTERPRISE CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLES TODAY’S IT LEADERS
IT leaders today are under enormous pressure. Today’s IT leader must be able to use technology to drive a company’s innovation, creating business-focused IT. Business-focused IT is the integration of IT and business for maximum corporate leverage and competitiveness. To achieve the innovation the company needs, today’s IT leaders must increase the flexibility and efficiency of infrastructure to support business changes and provide a foundation for new IT activities that can be spun up quickly.
Enterprise Cloud Computing is a key strategy that allows the CIO or IT leader to plot a path forward that maximizes operating cost efficiencies while minimizing cost complexities and also delivers a competitive advantage for the business. It provides IT infrastructure that is faster, better and safer.
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