by. Royce Yeager
The Cloud, The Cloud, The Cloud. Wondering where the rubber meets the road? This post is for you.
The cloud has many advantages. Primary of which is the fact that with the right provider you can improve your IT performance andefficiencywhile reducing your costs. Here are a few ways The Cloud can save you money:
Licensing Costs
Tired of buying MS Office licenses every time you need to set up a workstation? Sick of paying huge application license fees? How about server licences? Tired of those too? Let your cloud provider handle all of your licensing and charge it to you on a monthly basis. Iteliminatesamortization periods that outlast the time between upgrades.
Server Hardware Upgrade
Here’s a perfect example…want the Exchange 2010? Well guess what…your Exchange 2007 server hardware won’t cut it and you will have to lay out the dough for all new servers. Not so in the cloud. Hardware stops being your problem. Period.
IT Staff Time
Security patches, updates, new versions, etc, etc, etc. These basic tasks can eat up your IT Staff’s time and take them away from tasks related to improving your business processes. Once all of your patching and updates are handled by your Cloud Provider, your staff is free to improve your IT Services.
