Cloud Computing – will it make the sun come out for my business?

Cloud is an emerging style of Information Technology infrastructure designed for rapid delivery of computing resources. Business or consumer services are delivered in a simplified manner providing unbounded scale, differentiated quality and a user focus designed to foster rapid innovation and efficient decision making.

You have probably come across examples of cloud computing already in your business. One of the most well-known examples is salesforce.com, a model now being followed by some of the major ERP vendors such as Oracle and SAP.

Does The Cloud Have A Silver Lining?
Cloud computing is a potentially cost-efficient model for provisioning processes, applications and services while making IT management easier and more responsive to the needs of the business. These services - application services, storage services, networking services, whatever is needed - are delivered and made available in a simplified way, "on demand" regardless of where the user is or the type of device they're using.

It's this approach that enables both rapid innovation and support of core business functions. New applications are made available by highly efficient virtualized compute resources that can be rapidly scaled up and down in a flexible yet secure way to deliver a high quality of service.

b2lateral can help you move to a dynamic infrastructure enabling you to deliver cloud services within your own enterprise or in conjunction with your application providers. Cloud computing helps improve service delivery by applying engineering discipline and economies of scale in an Internet inspired architecture. Standardising systems and software components can help reduce operating expenses and virtualising the cloud environment to pool the IT resources help reduce the capital expense of hardware, software and facilities.

In addition, service management capabilities are critical for dynamically provisioning, managing and securing resources within the cloud. Addressing these challenges in a cloud environment is key to reducing infrastructure costs while still meeting the dynamic needs of the business.

What Are Public and Private Clouds?
Often depicted as being available to users from a third party provider, "public" clouds are typically made available via the Internet and may be free or inexpensive to use. There are many examples of these types of clouds providing services across open, public networks today.

"Private" clouds offer many of the same benefits as "public" clouds but are managed within the organisation. These types of clouds are not burdened by network bandwidth and availability issues or potential security exposures that may be associated with public clouds. Private clouds can offer the provider and user greater control, security and resilience.

Want to Know More?
Many companies are beginning to implement cloud computing capabilities either internally or as a service to their clients. b2lateral can help you look at this new approach, unravel some of the mystery surrounding this technology and help you evaluate the savings it can bring to your organisation.

If you would like to know more, please email our team at info@b2lateral.net