Dynamic Business

Leaping into the future
In an increasingly competitive environment, businesses must not be tied to infrastructure and processes simply as a matter of course. Virtualised environments provide an alternative for business that is cost-efficient, flexible and agile with elastic capacity that provides the same standard of service as the standard IT-in-a-box. Leveraging the benefits of virtualisation, cloud computing offers “outsourcing for the masses”—the management and delivery of IT services for all sizes of business—from EMC Mozy-type services for small business through to complex infrastructure and applications delivered as a service for large corporate organisations, through to the combination of the likes of EMC, VMware and Cisco. Success in these challenging times surely will be defined by businesses willing to take a leap of faith to improve efficiency and enhance their IT infrastructure by putting their head in the clouds.

—Darren McCullum is VMware Business Manager, EMC (www.emc.com.au) ANZ.

Cloud computing—the benefits

• Reduced cost; due to economies of scale, greater leverage and incremental payment
• Improved leverage of resources i.e. storage, because of a global infrastructure
• Automation; IT staff don’t need to worry about keeping software up-to-date
• Flexibility; scale up or down depending on requirements at the time
• Greater mobility; access information anywhere, any time
• Freedom; for IT staff to be proactive, adding value, as opposed to being reactive.

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