Moving to the Cloud

Over the last half a decade, several factors have contributed to a radical shift in how businesses view IT. It budgets have been cut dramatically in the face of recession, IT expectations of internet savvy employees have soared, and a growing community are providing cost effective cloud automation of everything from sales to HR.

Unfortunately, organizations looking for a substantial ROI are disappointed by diminished returns resulting from the true cost of managing an exploding number of disparate applications spanning multiple sites, often outside corporate control. Furthermore, many companies have valid questions about security, privacy, and access to their valuable corporate data.

The solution is to find a medium between internal IT and cookie cutter cloud services in a model that enables you to control a unified IT infrastructure for your businesses while reigning in costs. This can be accomplished by combining enterprise software solutions with a managed application delivery service running on servers dedicated to your organization.

The advantages are obvious. With a proven suite of enterprise software that may be incrementally integrated across dedicated servers, your IT immediately grows with your organization. Your application service provider may utilize traffic engineering and access controls to make the network a seamless part of your organization enabling you to outsource IT applications and data without giving up ownership and control. And having a complete picture of your unified IT infrastructure, users, applications and data enable you to capitalize on business process automation opportunities unique to your organization.