One of the things I love most about my job is staying tuned-in to the IT industry and adjusting our business model to be the most value to businesses. Most of the past decade has been about standardizing IT infrastructure to enable line-of-business apps to run smoothly. Disaster Recovery and proactive management have dominated IT conversations. With end user technology slowing down and standardized infrastructure solutions becoming a simple line item on a proposal, the industry has placed far more focus on lower cost CPU utilization by using shared server recourses and calling it the “cloud”. Now depending on who you ask the cloud may be a server or it may be an application served up over the Internet. Regardless of what it is, it should mean a reduction of cost from having on an on premise server. The thought is now shifting from who can sell and support a server to who can I trust with my data and systems. Over the next 5 years we will see infrastructure costs go down that will allow business to transfer some of that budget over to better business apps, productivity apps and communication apps of which all achieve a better bottom line.
Alex Webb
CEO
SSI Solutions
3 comments:
Awesome article – you definitely have a point, especially considering the pace of change in information technology today is greater than ever.
Small Business IT
Interesting times to be in a technology based field. I agree that organizations looking to move data/critical apps onto the cloud will need to seriously question the provider. IMO the largest roadblock is trust and allowing critical data to be hosted off premise. While this is a major issue I believe it will eventually be remedied as more and more success stories begin to come to the front but because of this lack of trust a multistep process to the "cloud" may surface ... as follows:
The next step for larger orgs not willing to move data offsite will be private hosted solutions. While it will require a significant investment it will allow an organization to keep everything in house resolving the issue mentioned above. Eventually, as hosted solutions become more the norm we might see a shift from private to public but many problems and concerns must be addressed before this happens.
Nevertheless, interesting times indeed but to the tech providers who can evolve and adapt the sky is the limit.
Hi,
The IT support provider should also be available if and when you need them should you face a technological emergency at work.
Thanks.
EMR Consulting
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