Cloud services for small to meduim sized businesses can optimize productivity
CFOs spend a good portion of their time reviewing and analyzing requests for capital expenditures and their financial impact. Understanding the long-term costs and depreciation of assets is essential to sound financial governance. Especially when evaluating It investments and the potential benefits of cloud services.
The true cost of IT equipment
IT equipment can cost quite a bit of money. Servers and computing power, in particular, add up quickly. A quick Google search shows prices from as little as $100 to over $8,000. If we look at cost only that $100 server might be very attractive. But will it hold up to the ever-increasing demand? The $8,000 server may meet your performance needs. Is it worth spending $24,000 to have the development, production and emergency failover environments that a 24/7 demanding environment needs? Remember that the average server has a five-year life expectancy based on the hardware components. As well as the routine changes in operating system requirements.
Beyond the price tag
In addition, to the acquisition costs of the equipment. You must include the soft costs of managing the equipment. To ensure 24/7 operations, routine administration of the server, patching, and security activities to ensure that not only is it available but it is running in an optimal and secure manner.
Meeting mordern business expectations
The modern business expectation is to be able to access company applications on any device, at any time, at any place. This expectation raises the requirements for hardware support and stability to a new level.
Cloud based solutions for growing businesses
An approach that many large businesses have used to address these requirements is by using cloud-based systems. For many small businesses, the large cloud providers of Infrastructure as A Service (IAAS), can be overwhelming to work with and their pricing schemes do not meet the needs of smaller organizations.
A local solution for growing businesses
Kotori Technologies caters to Small and Medium Businesses in the Charleston, SC area. It provides a unique approach to serving its local customers by offering a cloud service tailored to the needs of businesses that are small and growing. Their cloud offering can host your company’s systems, provide secure remote access, system reliability, 24-hour monitoring and disaster recovery services. Without the complexity of large scale providers.
Make Smarter IT investments
Their expertise in the industry allows them to help you make the right choices between that $100 server and the $8,000 device. They can provide the appropriate level of IAAS for your business to allow you to use capital that had been earmarked for IT on other projects to improve your manufacturing capacity or enhance your distribution operation to effectively optimize your productivity. For more information contact us today.
