IT Consolidation

IT is often an area that growing businesses need to quickly consolidate to reduce overhead costs. IT equipment and solutions tend to be deployed without much forethought and planning, therefore, most business are driven to consolidate similar functions to reduce redundancy and overlaps.  With mergers and acquisitions, disparate technology systems often need to be consolidated into one common system on a relatively short timeframe, but some common challenges with consolidation or centralization is that the applications and data become inaccessible, or remote-user performance degrades to an unusable point.

Consolidation is a common goal for many businesses as it reduces waste and required maintenance resources, therefore reducing costs.  However, traditional IT methods can only take consolidation projects so far because traditional methods are LAN (Local Area Network) optimized, as opposed to WAN (Wide Area Network) optimized.  Without WAN capabilities, IT cannot be distributed to mobile employees or to remote sites.  Businesses require new ways of approaching IT consolidation/centralization initiatives.

Cloud services allow for the centralization and consolidation of IT management and control to reduce redundancy and overlaps. With Cloud services, applications, data, and business systems can be accessed through a distributed fashion, typically over WAN connections, while ensuring the management and support of critical back-end IT infrastructure is centralized and optimized.

Benefits of IT Consolidation through Outsourced IT via Cloud Computing

Reduce Management Overhead.  Moving towards outsourced IT by using cloud computing to manage all of your business systems, data, and applications allows you to reduce your management overhead as your Cloud Service Provider (CSP) takes ownership and responsibility of procuring, provisioning and managing critical infrastructure partially or in its entirety.

Less Complexity and More Simplicity.  Since consolidated cloud computing services require fewer systems to manage for all of your business’s IT needs, they allow for a simpler IT management system.

Reduced Extended Downtime and Business Disruptions.  Partnering with a Cloud Service Provider means better uptime and availability for your company via the improved level of systems redundancy and a guaranteed service level agreement (SLA) associated with the CSP’s world-class datacenter infrastructure.  The result is a substantial reduction in costly, unexpected downtime and business disruption.

Better Management and Utilization of Resources.  Manage your IT services and related computing resources in a better, more efficient model, as all IT services and resources are now provisioned and managed from one centralized location.

Cloud Services… the Simple and Cost-Effective Method to Consolidate Common Standard IT Infrastructure!

Cloud computing allows centralized network management with distributed delivery and access.  Whether it is through virtualization or physical server configuration in a dedicated server or usage of shared servers, or simply the integration of a few or several  cloud services, you can reduce your complex IT management systems and resource costs by adopting cloud computing.  This adoption often leads to substantial cost savings and productivity gains through consolidation, simplification, reduction, and optimization of scarce internal resources. Enjoy the benefits of Cloud services!