How Well Do You Know… the Cloud ?
Cloud Computing makes possible what couldn’t be done a few years ago. You may add many servers as and when demand increases or reduces. All this means huge capital savings & substantial impact on time and productivity.
Are you ready for it?
Access yourself using the following questions on how to prepare for the cloud, what service parameters are important to your organization and how to evaluate potential cloud offerings
Disclaimer:
The questions mentioned are indicative in nature, helping you in broader assessment & should not be treated as professional advisory.
For a thorough review and implementation, please contact us.
Cloud readiness
With the exception of many Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, engaging cloud services is seldom as simple as choosing a provider and connecting to a virtualized data center. How prepared is your organization for cloud computing?
Q1. Is your IT cost increasing year on year?
Summary
Bringing down computing costs in organizations. Most businesses are groaning under the costs of high-end hardware for their employees as apps become more and more resource hungry. Using a cloud to store apps which is accessible to users from a basic terminal brings in a control factor to these costs. Since cost cutting is a major concern these days, the concept of cloud computing is having its day under the sun.
Q2. Are you facing any infrastructure & application accessibility issues with your existing IT setup?
Summary
Greater freedom for the cloud users as they can access data and applications from just about anywhere via multiple devices (like terminals, mobile, net books etc). Since the terminals can be quite basic, this helps bring down overall hardware costs as well.
Q3. Are you facing Manageability issues with existing IT setup ?
Summary
Centralized and agile…might sound like a dream for some technocrats but it really is true. You can now use cloud computing to ensure that everyone is on the same page when it comes to computing standards, there is practically no down-time and just one implementation of a new application can result 100% implementation. Clouds are also comparatively easy to manage and bring down the costs as well as headache of maintenance disparate servers. In fact network managers love cloud computing as it puts everything together in a very organized manner.
Q4. How Secure is your data or information?
Summary
The current offerings in cloud services show that especially in the area of infrastructure & applications, a number of security technologies have been applied already. The cloud providers have advanced the support of security technologies in the areas of architecture, management and compliance. Security in cloud computing is much better than a scattered network and that is one of the reasons why clouds are working.
Q5. Are you aware about benefits of cloud?
Summary
Some of the key benefits of Cloud Services are: Cost with pay per use model, Manageability, Scalability, Accessibility, Security of Information and customized model with multiple applications.
Q6. To what extend your applications are standardized? Can we scale up or down
with requirements with ease of access from anywhere?
Summary
To be cloud-compatible, applications must share a common method of programmatic interaction to underlying cloud resources and services. Many older out-of-the box applications lack this capability.
Q7. Would you like to have more information about Cloud Services?
Summary
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