Top Ten Benefits of the Cloud: #1 - Reduced Costs

When analyzing cloud computing for your business IT solutions, one of the most important reasons the cloud can help is to reduce IT expenses.

Cloud computing reduces your hardware (computers, software, downloaded programs), networking management and overall IT expenses.  To go more in depth, here is a brief, yet detailed summary of other ways directly reduces costs:

1. Pay only for what you use – IS Support's Cloud Cumulus solution operates on a pay-as-you-use model, or in different terms, a demand-only model. With IS Cumulus, you only pay for the services you require and use. This works out to be much cheaper than acquiring barely used equipment.



2. Running costs – In addition to usage, running costs comprise a significant portion of the annual IT budget. By shifting to cloud computing, your company is free of those expenses such as upgrades, physical maintenance, personnel salaries, etc.

3. Economies of scale – Cloud computing can utilize economies of scale to offer cheaper rates to your business. In other words, the service providers can buy IT equipment in bulk to lower unit acquisition costs, and part of the cost savings are passed on to their consumers. Consequently, this price is much lower than what you would pay to buy similar equipment from the retail market

4. Investment costs vs Operational costs - Acquiring expensive equipment is considered a capital expenditure, which can be costly. As the equipment ages, this acquisition depreciates over time. With cloud computing, a one-time expense is spread across several operational cycles, becoming part of operational costs providing a much better alternative. Factor in the time value of money, and the balance shifts even more towards cloud computing.

If you would like to learn more, or find out exactly how our IS Cumulus solution can provide your company all of the above benefits and more, contact us for a free consulting session!

Stay tuned for the next part of Cloud Computing benefits: Scalability

Top Ten Benefits of the Cloud!

Some IT Professionals will often talk about how cloud computing can help your business without getting very specific on exactly "how."  Well, we would like to change that.  In this upcoming blog series, we at IS Support have listed our ten favorite ways that Small-Medium sized businesses utilize the cloud.  We have listed them below (in no particular order)

1. Reduced Costs
2. Scalability
3. Disaster Recovery
4. Remote Access
5. Fast Response Time
6. Automatic Updates
7. Implementation
8. Level Playing Field
9. Mobility
10. Experienced Vendor

For the next ten blog posts, we will take each one above and briefly summarize it and how it can effect your business and help you evolve with technology to take your company to the next level. 

Stay tuned and in the meantime, check out our website...we'd be happy to put you on "the cloud!"

Do you trust your bank? Then trust the Cloud!

Many businesses have concerns about Cloud security, especially with recent headlines such as Amazon’s cloud outage.   Issues such as privacy and data breach issues are significant worries when a company considers switching to the Cloud and it’s easy to understand why – Cloud computing means moving some or most of your data to a third party location outside of your servers or hard drives. 

But the fact is that Cloud Computing is not a new trend in IT world.  In fact, you probably are using elements of cloud computing in your everyday life.  If you use e-mails services such as G-Mail or Yahoo Mail, you are already in the cloud. All your e-mails (data) are saved in servers outside your home or business and you need a web browser and internet connection to access your data, and this is what cloud computing is all about: storing your data and application in a remote server which you can access via web.

Your online banking is also a form of cloud computing, you need to log on a remote server, via your bank website to access your account information which contains your banking data.  Almost everyone uses some form of online banking, without even realizing that such concepts are forms of cloud computing.  Online banking or mobile apps are a safe and secure way of making banking easy and accessible; so is cloud computing for your company.

So cloud computing is not entirely new technology, we just have more applications now taking advantage of this technology.  If you feel secure to trust your online banking, then consider IS Support’s Cloud Cumulus solutions for your business. To learn more about how we can put your company on the cloud and all that our cloud solutions can provide your business, visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you!