Leveraging The Cloud

According to HP, more than 92% of companies use services that are connected to or run in the Cloud.

The Cloud has changed the face of business computing. For Info Advantage, that means your servers are now able to be housed on our secure data center and maintained by our technicians. Hosted solutions ensure that your company is delivered a secure and efficient computing infrastructure that enables you to focus on the administration of your business and not your IT.

Cloud computing is a major shift from the traditional ways that businesses thought about IT resources. With Cloud computing you get the delivery of computing services – including servers, storage, databases, networking, and software – over the internet.

While the first Cloud computing services are barely a decade old, a variety of organizations are already embracing Cloud technology for all sorts of reasons. Cloud services even let you do things like create cloud-native applications, stream audio and video, analyze data, and embed intelligence.

One thing you should know is that not all clouds are the same; there are several different models, types, and services that have evolved to help offer the right solution for your business needs. The three different ways to deploy Cloud services are through a public Cloud, a private Cloud, or a hybrid Cloud.

If you already use any cloud services for your business then you’ve already realized some of the perks, but, according to IBM, these are the three major benefits of the Cloud:

• Flexibility: Users can scale services to fit their needs, customize applications, and access Cloud services from anywhere with an internet connection.
• Efficiency: Users can get quickly get applications to market, without the worries of underlying infrastructure costs or maintenance.
• Value: Cloud services give businesses a competitive advantage by providing the most innovative technology solutions.

Other notable benefits of the cloud for businesses of all sizes include data security, mobility, disaster recovery, quality control, sustainability, and potential cost reductions.

Additional computing options, or hosted IT solutions, offered by Info Advantage include hosted email exchange, email filtering/spam protection, desktop virtualization, hosted VoIP, and hosted security and backup.

At Info Advantage, we believe that Cloud computing presents solutions for any of your business’ problems; from e-mail, to communications, to a full-scaled hosted infrastructure. To this regard, cloud computing is presenting companies of all sizes with considerable benefits.

For more information about Cloud-based computing options that work to increase your company’s efficiency and productivity, and how those solutions can benefit your business, contact us today!