Cloud Computing: It’s Not About the Cloud

Cloud Computing is More Buzzword than New Technology

Cloud computing simply means the system is too complex or dynamic to be explained but is so reliable that no one really cares that it can’t be explained. More or less.

Your Business is Already Using the Cloud

Here are some clouds you’re using right now in your business:

• When you’re placing a call on your telephone, you’re using the cloud. Your phone just works. You pick it up and you get telephone service. It’s very reliable, and you don’t have a clue how it really works.
• When you plug in your office coffee maker and grab electricity from the local utility, you’re using the cloud. You don’t care how the electricity is generated, you just want your coffee quick and hot.
• When you’re working late and order a pizza, you’re using the cloud. That sausage and onion pizza is output from the cloud. You don’t know exactly where it was cooked, who cooked it, the path it took to get to your office or where the ingredients originated. Best of all, you don’t care so long as they remembered the garlic dipping sauce.

The common denominator in all of the above is that you care about the end result, not about the process. Cloud computing is about improving results quality without getting involved with the process.

Reasons to Move Your Servers and Resources Into the Cloud

The short answer is the cloud is more reliable, better performing and less expensive than hosting your own services.

The only way you’re going to know if the cloud has a silver lining for your business is by making a phone call and then sitting down with DedicatedIT in front of a white board. No silver lining, no cloud. It’s that simple. Let the bottom line lead your business, not buzzwords.

Already in the Cloud and Need an Umbrella?

Some clouds just bring rain.

If you got into the cloud — or into the wrong cloud — and want out, we can help you there, too. As wonderful as outsourced services can be with the correct managed services provider, there are some good reasons to host your own services in your own office or in a co-location facility.

We can help you determine if it is time to get out of the rain.

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