Written on April 3, 2009
| by RP Mickler |
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A New Way of Doing IT
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Cloud Computing represents a new way of doing IT and – for many reasons – represents the future of small to mid-range business computing. The premise behind Cloud Computing is that there is better economy of scale through centralizing services to online providers; expenses and risk that would normally fall within the responsibility of your company can be transferred from your budget to theirs, and fixed through contractual pricing.
Combined with other popular industry initiatives like Open Source, Cloud Computing offers real opportunity for businesses to completely re-think the way that they manage IT services. Fundamentally, most small to mid-range businesses don’t have a dedicated IT staff and aren’t experts at managing information services – IT isn’t their core competency. Therefore, Cloud Computing offers an alternative approach to offering and maintaining IT services through self-service over the web.
Literally: imagine a world where information is everywhere, to employees and customers alike, ubiquitous to every device and software that you own, and your company doesn’t even own one server – and to boot, most of this capability is free and its available on day one.
Mickler & Associates, Inc. is unique positioned to help your company:
- Identify how a Cloud Computing strategy might fit within your organization
- Determine ROI Dashboard based off Cloud Computing intiatives
- Transition Windows-based applications to hosted terminal services
- Identify open source software alternatives to commercial software packages
- Execute a Cloud Computing strategy with software and hardware expertise
Computing models are frameworks are radically changing. We believe that companies who take advantage of Cloud Computing now have an initial window of 4-8 years from 2009 of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and software licensing expense reductions that undercut similar in-house expenses made by their competitors. Let us show you the way.
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