By Sam | May 16, 2013

5 Ways the Cloud Can Save You Money

The Cloud, The Cloud, The Cloud. Wondering where the rubber meets the road? This post is for you.

The cloud has many advantages. Primary of which is the fact that with the right provider you can improve your IT performance and efficiency while reducing your costs. Here are a few ways The Cloud can save you money:

Licensing Costs

Tired of buying MS Office licenses every time you need to set up a workstation? Sick of paying huge application license fees? How about server licences? Tired of those too? Let your cloud provider handle all of your licensing and charge it to you on a monthly basis. It eliminates amortization periods that outlast the time between upgrades.

Server Hardware Upgrade

Here’s a perfect example…want the Exchange 2010? Well guess what…your Exchange 2007 server hardware won’t cut it and you will have to lay out the dough for all new servers. Not so in the cloud. Hardware stops being your problem. Period.

IT Staff Time

Security patches, updates, new versions, etc, etc, etc. These basic tasks can eat up your IT Staff’s time and take them away from tasks related to improving your business processes. Once all of your patching and updates are handled by your Cloud Provider, your staff is free to improve your IT Services.

Cost of Disaster Recovery

What do you pay in DR for all of your IT services? Thousands? Tens of Thousands? With the Cloud you can roll all of those costs up into your monthly cloud fees and not worry about DR, if you go with the right Cloud Provider. Especially one with an understanding of Disaster Recovery.

Enterprise Quality Without Enterprise Costs

Unless you are paying top dollar for the best infrastructure pieces this one isn’t going to save you money, but it will provide you with the best performance, equipment, software, architecture, and other features that are not in the typical IT department’s budget. Call it reverse savings, or whatever you like but the point is in the cloud you can utilize the best of everything, while still paying only a reasonable monthly fee.

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