Why Cloud Computing?

Your IT grows with your business

Your business needs are constantly changing. Cloud computing offers you the possibility to scale resources up and down in real-time based on your current needs. Cloud-based services can be provisioned and deployed automatically, ensuring users can make use of additional services and resources immediately.

Think time to market!

E-commerce and online presence is something characteristic to all companies on today’s market. Company differentiation on the market will always include online campaigns and promotions which in turn means a boost in web traffic. For a large online promotion, webserver resources can be critical in dealing with the load created throughout the campaign duration. Some companies will look at investing in new servers, which has high cost implications and increased time-to-market implications generated by the delivery, installation and configuration processes.

With cloud computing, the company does not have to invest in additional hardware. Moreover, as the website is hosted in the Cloud, and by using elasticity an additional load balanced web server is added to the platform with minimal effort, compensating and providing the required extra resources. Dynamic servers can cope with traffic during peak times and once the promotion is over and there is no need for the extra resources, the company can downgrade, ensuring they only pay for the services and resources they need. CapEx costs are eliminated and there is never an unused resource.

Pay as you go

All aspects of cloud based services and infrastructure can be measured, controlled, and reported on; providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilised service (storage, processing, bandwidth, active user accounts). This is crucial for billing, access control, resource optimization, capacity planning and other tasks.

Think Control!

At some point, companies will undergo a massive project that requires them to hire contractors that need access to specialized software. This implies ensuring the right storage, access devices and license are in place, which will bring high cost implications as well as an increased time-to-market for the project.

With cloud computing, a dynamic server can be used so that contractors can work and collaborate in a shared environment. This server will only be billed for the duration of its usage. The company can also acquire the specialized software needed by using Software as a Service (SaaS) – renting the software for the duration of the project, as opposed to having to buy licenses.

On-demand access

Computer services such as email, applications, network or server service can be provided without requiring human interaction with each service provider. Provisioning computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, can be done automatically.

Think responsiveness!

Businesses grow and with them the need for easy and rapid solutions of deploying new services, creating new users and accounts. Hiring new employees and getting them set up on all systems quickly is sometimes crucial to maintaining competitiveness on the market. Ordering new desktops, setting up e-mails, phones, ensuring the proper level of security, can be a very time consuming activity.

With cloud computing, via our control panel, companies can quickly place the orders for new mailboxes, hosted desktops, VoIP extensions, file sharing and collaboration accounts, and see how the additional resources automatically become available for them. They can then proceed with adding mailboxes and other services to the system, that get provisioned automatically and become usable within minutes. All that’s left for the company is to ensure proper training on their business and products for the new employees. Our control panel allows you to focus on what’s important: your business.

Be Productive anywhere, anytime, from any device

You can access your network using any Internet-enabled devices such as smartphones, laptops, PCs, tablets, thin clients, using standards-based APIs (for example, ones based on HTTP).

Think productivity!

Business trips, client meetings are all part of today’s dynamic work environment. In order to generate new business, close deals, present a business case, employees will rely heavily on the accessibility and availability of their and their company’s information. Successful business relationships depend heavily on how quick the parties manage to turn-around information.

With cloud computing, via Hosted Virtual Desktops and File Sharing and collaboration tools, the information needed is always a few clicks away. Hosted Virtual Desktops can be accessed via any internet connected device, allowing users to retrieve any of their files. The File Sharing and Collaboration service, Soonr, allows users to quickly share information with both internal and external stakeholders in a secure manner. All your business needs to do to win a pitch is have a good proposition, the information is always at hand.

Maximise IT efficiency

In a cloud environment resources are pooled together to meet the needs of multiple consumers. Different physical and virtual resources characteristic to a multi-tenant environment are dynamically assigned and reassigned based on user demand. The pooled resources include storage, CPU, memory, network bandwidth, and email services. Resource pooling leads to economies of scale which would otherwise be hard to obtain without significant investment.

Think efficiency!

Depending on business function, your employees may have different requirements in terms of desktop specification and performance – CPU, memory, storage. In order to ensure that users can successfully complete projects by making use of computing resources, would to some extent mean looking at investing in new hardware, and or hardware and software update activities. This has high cost implications, not to mention an increased time-to-market on projects that rely heavily on IT to complete.

In a cloud based environment, during daytime workers are busy using their Hosted Virtual Desktops and the platform dynamically assigns memory to the Virtual Desktop nodes offering the resource overhead required for a smooth experience. In the evening when the workers leave the office, developers working in a different time zone begin to debug and compile code on their development servers and the platform dynamically assigns memory to compensate for their running tasks. Resource pooling reutilizes the platform’s memory and assigns it where it is needed the most. All employees are able to successfully complete their tasks, and in need can with a few clicks upgrade or downgrade resources, all on an OpEx basis.