CloudStrategies Newsletter: Volume 2 Issue 4 - June 2011

To Cloud or Not to Cloud: It's Not Just Cloud... It's Clouds!!!

To Cloud or Not to Cloud

Integration.  It's what the IT industry has been best known for over the years, and cloud computing doesn't change that one bit, except perhaps to expand the possibilities.


The fact is that many customers are concerned about choosing "the right cloud solution" when the fact is that the best cloud strategy more often than not involves several different cloud services from several different cloud service providers.


For example, you may decide that you want to increase the business agility of all of your people by delivering productivity applications like Microsoft Office to them via the cloud.  You might choose to subscribe all of them to Microsoft Office 365 to do that.  Should you decide that you wish to extend that to include telephone service, you might then decide that services from WorkSpace Communications are the best solution to provide complete integration from presence to instant messaging, to voice, video, application sharing, and, yes, even telephone.


Most companies also use highly specialized software designed to run their particular business on.  To reduce your operating costs and eliminate future capital investments you may decide to run that software on servers provided by RackSpace.  To provide high availability and emergency failover capability in the extremely remote event of a problem you may also decide to incorporate solutions from Neverfail.


If all of this seems at all confusing, depend upon your consultant from CloudStrategies.  We recognized early on that there would be many great cloud-based solutions from providers large and small.  With years of experience evaluating, implementing, and integrating solutions from multiple manufacturers to create outstanding on-premises IT solutions, our experts will guide you through the many choices available to you, assessing your business' particular needs so they can identify and integrate just the right cloud solutions to arrive at the ideal combination for you.  It isn't about choosing the right cloud, it's about combining the right clouds to create your own personal silver lining.

Cs Lyncsample