How can cloud computing save my business money?

With all factors considered, Cloud Computing is generally cheaper. Although on the surface it may appear you are continually paying each month for something you could possibly buy yourself “in-house” and only pay once off, this is not the case. You need to compare apples with apples. Are you taking into consideration – performance? reliability? overheads? speed? up time? business continuity? backups? offsite data and server replication between the two solutions? Weigh up all the features and anticipate your “in-house” system will need to be replaced after 3 – 4 years. Only then you will realise that cloud computing can save you up to 80% on ICT expenditure. By leveraging an “on demand” service such as cloud, there is less maintenance and up keep instead giving you a system that follows you where ever you may be.

Cloud computing is also scalable and in today’s volatile business environment, it is the perfect option during ramp up or ramp down production cycles. The Microsoft SPLA and CSP models are based on a PAYG (pay as you go) system. If you require more licenses, you add them onto your agreement. If you decide business is quiet and you need to scale down, you can just as easily remove them from your agreement. This was never the case with perpetual licensing models where the end user had to pay up front and hope for the best their investment is 100% utilised.

Just sit back and do the math, or better yet have one of Epic IT’s consultants do the math for you – then you will kick yourself you didn’t move your organisation into the cloud earlier. Better later than never!