Reasons to consider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are piling up like never before. Businesses today need to be fast on their feet, adaptive to consumer whims, operationally lean and competitively ruthless. If investing in your computing, storage and networking systems, the physical space to house them, people to run them and infrastructure to support them helps you do that, then have at it.

1. T o p R 1ea0son s to consider
Infrastructure
as a Service

2. Reasons to consider
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...
...are piling up like never before. Businesses today need to be
fast on their feet, adaptive to consumer whims, operationally
lean and competitively ruthless. If investing in your
computing, storage and networking systems, the physical
space to house them, people to run them and infrastructure to
support them helps you do that, then have at it.

3. If, however, IT operations are sapping resources away from
your true goals and slowing you down, your competitors won’t
mind but your customers might.
Maybe it’s time to consider IaaS.
Here are 10 reasons IaaS
could make sense for you.

4. Keep your head
on a swivel.
Stay on top of your business. Leverage resources
and focus time on innovative applications and
solutions for customers, not on non-core activities.
Leave the business and headaches of IT operations
and infrastructure to the experts.

5. Keep resources
aligned w/ business
requirements.
Get the IT services and capacities you need when
you need them, and give them up when you don’t.
That’s nearly impossible to do when you run your
own data center.

6. Keep your
CEO happy.
Instead of waiting five years to depreciate capital
investments (CapEx) in computer systems,
OpEx friendly investments such as IaaS provide
predictability and full expensing benefits on a
more frequent basis.

7. Keep investors
on your side.
Cash-strapped mid-size and small businesses
are better served spending money on revenue-producing
and market-expanding programs and
people instead of electrical plugs in the wall.

8. Keep your technology
state of the art.
Don’t let generations of new business computing
assets pass you by while you wait out a three-to-five
year technology refresh cycle; it’s a competitive
necessity that IaaS providers stay on top of the
latest and greatest.

9. Keep your
availability high.
Reputable IaaS providers eliminate single points of
failure. Everything from power supplies to network
cards are redundant and many components are hot
swappable, keeping clients’ operations running in
the event of a hardware failure.

10. Keep the best talents
working toward your
business success.
Finding, keeping and affording people with top-notch
technology skills is a challenge for even
the biggest enterprises. IaaS providers are on the
cutting edge, where talented people like to be.

11. Keep out the
bad guys.
Most IaaS providers take physical security
seriously. Besides video surveillance equipment
and fingerprint scanners, some have highly trained
security teams on guard 24/7/365.

12. Keep your data
secure and your
business compliant.
Some IaaS providers – but definitely not all – make
this a core competence. A provider that keeps its
eye squarely on this ball can be a tremendous asset
to your business in a variety of ways.

13. Keep your
peace of mind
Sure, there are cost savings from IaaS, the latest
systems and newest technologies, the uptime and
reliability. But at the end of the day, having a partner
there watching your back and working for your
business success, well, that’s priceless.

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