Why would you host your applications in the cloud?
Posted by Vince Nicita on Monday, February 14, 2011
IT in the Cloud
by Andrew Tucker
Not every business has the necessary resources or expertise to run an in-house IT department efficiently and cost-effectively. Further, to properly run your internal IT department, in today’s fast moving market, it is critical to continually invest in latest equipment and knowledge development to support your core applications efficiently.
By putting the management of your business-critical applications in the hands of a qualified Cloud partner, you get greatly improved performance, guaranteed 24x7 uptime with monitoring, and of course a major reduction in application management costs.
Reduced operational expenses.
- You pay for what you need and when you need it, all in one monthly per user fee. There is very little, if any, waste of licenses and resources.
- Cloud gives you direct access to an on-demand, high-grade network in a secure data centre.
- On-site skilled technical teams and application services monitor all your applications 24x7.
- Given the benefits of economies of scale, our customers get the performance advantage of high-end servers for a fraction of the costs. If you had to purchase your own hardware, it would cost anywhere from $5,000 for an entry-level server to $100,000 for high-end server to be able to support your business and applications as they expand. And, this does not account for the expense of electricity, security and staff to maintain these systems.
The need for more processing power during peak times of the month.
- Cloud will provision your applications across a shared hardware platform.
- Using optimized Virtualization technology, application workloads are shared across the entire server farm (infrastructure), giving you the flexibility to dynamically scale your applications up or down as required.
Guaranteed uptime
- As it is in most cases difficult to manage your servers and core applications cost-effectively, your Cloud provider will discuss with you a service level agreement (SLA) that best meets your needs and requirements, providing you with assurance that your core applications will run as best possible, and with maximum uptime.
- Further, built-in server redundancy will ensure that your data and applications are secure and safe, along with experts on call at all times for any down-time emergencies.
Security
- As new security threats emerge daily, and any breach inside your organisation has the potential to do a lot of harm.
- Your Cloud provider has the systems and procedures to deal with any type of security threat.
What are ITonCloud’s offerings?
Among many, the primary key benefits of hosting is knowing that your data is secure, backed up and that you have access anywhere in the world, enabling higher productivity and peace of mind.
Published desktop
- No more desktop and server licensing, backup or security headaches. Access your desktop though the Web, wherever you are in the world.
- The base set of applications includes MS Office, Email and your core applications.
- Using ITonCloud’s technology you can have MS Office and your core applications delivered to your Ipad
Secure hosting of special purpose key applications
- If you have purchased MS Office for your PC’s or Notebooks and only want to host your Accounting application for example, this is fine as ITonCloud can host these specific applications, allowing you with direct Web access too
Google Apps
- Evolving to Google Apps (including Google Docs, Gmail, etc.) is a fantastic way to reduce costs.
- ITonCloudcan migrate your existing MS Exchange or Lotus Notes Servers into the Google Cloud. As an Enterprise Partner of Google, and today the only hosting provider to add this to a Published desktop offering, you can save even more.
Hosting and Managing of your servers
- Reduce your IT expenses, since there is no longer a need for you to own and manage a server room.
- ITonCloud can either host your existing servers, or use ours to save even more.
Disaster Recovery
- ITonCloud can replicate (and continually take snapshot backups) of your existing Data centre to insure that you never go down in case of fire or theft
We know that every user has speed expectations, this is where we truly excel.
- It is vital to us that user experience is just fantastic. We have spent a great deal of time and money making sure that we are setting a new benchmark in the industry.
- Unlike many other hosting providers, we do not believe in over subscribing. Your elated satisfaction is our success and appreciation, and we are serious!
In summary, this simply means that what you pay for is what you get in service and user experience.
As your company grows and your IT staff become stretched you will also find in most cases, hardware, software and maintenance costs start hitting your bottom-line
These are normally the telling signs that moving to a fully managed application and server hosting environment is right for you.
Andrew Tucker is CEO of Domani Partner company IT on Cloud. Their Hosted Desktop service is ideal for small to medium businesses that want an IT service without the hassles of support and unexpected upgrade bills.
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Why would you host your applications in the cloud?
Posted by Vince Nicita on Monday, February 14, 2011IT in the Cloud
by Andrew Tucker
Not every business has the necessary resources or expertise to run an in-house IT department efficiently and cost-effectively. Further, to properly run your internal IT department, in today’s fast moving market, it is critical to continually invest in latest equipment and knowledge development to support your core applications efficiently.
By putting the management of your business-critical applications in the hands of a qualified Cloud partner, you get greatly improved performance, guaranteed 24x7 uptime with monitoring, and of course a major reduction in application management costs.
Reduced operational expenses.
- You pay for what you need and when you need it, all in one monthly per user fee. There is very little, if any, waste of licenses and resources.
- Cloud gives you direct access to an on-demand, high-grade network in a secure data centre.
- On-site skilled technical teams and application services monitor all your applications 24x7.
- Given the benefits of economies of scale, our customers get the performance advantage of high-end servers for a fraction of the costs. If you had to purchase your own hardware, it would cost anywhere from $5,000 for an entry-level server to $100,000 for high-end server to be able to support your business and applications as they expand. And, this does not account for the expense of electricity, security and staff to maintain these systems.
The need for more processing power during peak times of the month.
- Cloud will provision your applications across a shared hardware platform.
- Using optimized Virtualization technology, application workloads are shared across the entire server farm (infrastructure), giving you the flexibility to dynamically scale your applications up or down as required.
Guaranteed uptime
- As it is in most cases difficult to manage your servers and core applications cost-effectively, your Cloud provider will discuss with you a service level agreement (SLA) that best meets your needs and requirements, providing you with assurance that your core applications will run as best possible, and with maximum uptime.
- Further, built-in server redundancy will ensure that your data and applications are secure and safe, along with experts on call at all times for any down-time emergencies.
Security
- As new security threats emerge daily, and any breach inside your organisation has the potential to do a lot of harm.
- Your Cloud provider has the systems and procedures to deal with any type of security threat.
What are ITonCloud’s offerings?
Among many, the primary key benefits of hosting is knowing that your data is secure, backed up and that you have access anywhere in the world, enabling higher productivity and peace of mind.
Published desktop
- No more desktop and server licensing, backup or security headaches. Access your desktop though the Web, wherever you are in the world.
- The base set of applications includes MS Office, Email and your core applications.
- Using ITonCloud’s technology you can have MS Office and your core applications delivered to your Ipad
Secure hosting of special purpose key applications
- If you have purchased MS Office for your PC’s or Notebooks and only want to host your Accounting application for example, this is fine as ITonCloud can host these specific applications, allowing you with direct Web access too
Google Apps
- Evolving to Google Apps (including Google Docs, Gmail, etc.) is a fantastic way to reduce costs.
- ITonCloudcan migrate your existing MS Exchange or Lotus Notes Servers into the Google Cloud. As an Enterprise Partner of Google, and today the only hosting provider to add this to a Published desktop offering, you can save even more.
Hosting and Managing of your servers
- Reduce your IT expenses, since there is no longer a need for you to own and manage a server room.
- ITonCloud can either host your existing servers, or use ours to save even more.
Disaster Recovery
- ITonCloud can replicate (and continually take snapshot backups) of your existing Data centre to insure that you never go down in case of fire or theft
We know that every user has speed expectations, this is where we truly excel.
- It is vital to us that user experience is just fantastic. We have spent a great deal of time and money making sure that we are setting a new benchmark in the industry.
- Unlike many other hosting providers, we do not believe in over subscribing. Your elated satisfaction is our success and appreciation, and we are serious!
In summary, this simply means that what you pay for is what you get in service and user experience.
As your company grows and your IT staff become stretched you will also find in most cases, hardware, software and maintenance costs start hitting your bottom-line
These are normally the telling signs that moving to a fully managed application and server hosting environment is right for you.
Andrew Tucker is CEO of Domani Partner company IT on Cloud. Their Hosted Desktop service is ideal for small to medium businesses that want an IT service without the hassles of support and unexpected upgrade bills.
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