Cloud Clarity

Take to the clouds to improve cost control
and business agility

Business briefing paper:

Identify cloud fact from fiction with our business briefing paper:

"Cloud Computing - Making it work for your organisation"

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Cloud computing is a natural extension of virtualisation and traditional hosting services. It enables organisations to bring even greater flexibility to their IT operations, making it easier for them to respond to organisational change and ongoing pressure to drive cost-efficiency.

In a cloud environment, organisations or business departments can provision IT hardware and software on-demand rather than going through a time-consuming procurement or requisition process.

Based on a utility pricing model, this approach enables IT departments to quickly scale up - or down - storage capacity, processing power, bandwidth and application functionality.

Taking a blended approach that's right for you

Although the concept of cloud computing is relatively simple, the execution can be incredibly complex. Computacenter can help you understand the different types of cloud computing and how this model can be part of a mixed IT sourcing approach.

With our support, you will be able to:

Identify the best delivery model for different business applications and workloads
Address cloud integration and security challenges
Develop a sourcing strategy that balances cost, risk and performance

Computacenter offers private and public cloud services as well as infrastructure outsourcing, hosting and associated services. We underwrite the outcomes of all our service delivery models, so you can guarantee the availability and security of your business critical systems.

As an end-to-end IT provider, we can source, implement and support the key technologies that will underpin your mixed sourcing and private cloud environments.

Greater agility at a lower cost

By adopting cloud computing as part of a mixed IT sourcing strategy, you will be able to align IT costs to business demand without compromising service levels. This approach will also help to:

Reduce operational and capital spend
Improve business agility
Facilitate dynamic business decisions
Minimise carbon emissions
Free up IT resources and increase efficiency