Top 10 Reasons to consider

Infrastructure as a Service

to consider

Reasons to consider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)......are piling up like never before. Businesses today need to be

fast on their feet, adaptive to consumer whims, operationally

lean and competitively ruthless. If investing in your

computing, storage and networking systems, the physical

space to house them, people to run them and infrastructure to

support them helps you do that, then have at it.

If, however, IT operations are sapping resources away from

your true goals and slowing you down, your competitors won’t

mind but your customers might.

Maybe it’s time to consider IaaS.

Here are 10 reasons IaaS could make sense for you.

Stay on top of your business. Leverage resources and focus time on innovative applications and solutions for customers, not on non-core activities. Leave the business and headaches of IT operations and infrastructure to the experts.

Keep your headon a swivel.

Keep resources aligned w/ business requirements.

Get the IT services and capacities you need when you need them, and give them up when you don’t. That’s nearly impossible to do when you run your own data center.

Instead of waiting five years to depreciate capital investments (CapEx) in computer systems, OpEx friendly investments such as IaaS provide predictability and full expensing benefits on a more frequent basis.

Keep yourCEO happy.

Cash-strapped mid-size and small businesses are better served spending money on revenue-producing and market-expanding programs and people instead of electrical plugs in the wall.

Keep investors on your side.

Don’t let generations of new business computing assets pass you by while you wait out a three-to-five year technology refresh cycle; it’s a competitive necessity that IaaS providers stay on top of the latest and greatest.

Keep your technologystate of the art.

Reputable IaaS providers eliminate single points of failure. Everything from power supplies to network cards are redundant and many components are hot swappable, keeping clients’ operations running in the event of a hardware failure.

Keep your availability high.

Keep the best talentsworking toward your business success.

Finding, keeping and affording people with top-notch technology skills is a challenge for even the biggest enterprises. IaaS providers are on the cutting edge, where talented people like to be.

Most IaaS providers take physical security seriously. Besides video surveillance equipment and fingerprint scanners, some have highly trained security teams on guard 24/7/365.

Keep out thebad guys.

Keep your data secure and your business compliant.

Some IaaS providers – but definitely not all – make this a core competence. A provider that keeps its eye squarely on this ball can be a tremendous asset to your business in a variety of ways.

Sure, there are cost savings from IaaS, the latest systems and newest technologies, the uptime and reliability. But at the end of the day, having a partner there watching your back and working for your business success, well, that’s priceless.

Keep your peace of mind

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