Cloud Computing

Driving Down Computing Costs

Cloud computing has made quite a stir in the IT industry. Offering a new, massively scalable IT implementation model, cloud computing can significantly reduce IT costs, optimize system workload and improve application service delivery.

Enterprises are excited by cloud options, which can increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel or licensing new software.

Cloud computing services emerging quickly

Though cloud computing is still in its nascent stage, there already is a crowd of providers delivering cloud-based services, from full-blown applications to storage solutions to spam filtering. Services currently offered include:

• Software as a Service (SaaS) where a vendor delivers a single application through the browser to a large subscriber base using a multi-tenant architecture;
• Utility Computing, which with its virtual servers enables clients to stitch together memory, I/O, storage and computing capacity as a virtualized resource available over the Internet;
• Web Services, which offers Application Programming Interfaces (API) that enable developers to exploit functionality over the Internet rather than delivering full-blown applications;
• Platform as a Service, which delivers the development environment for you to build and deliver applications that run on the provider’s infrastructure;
• Managed Service, where vendors offer such services as virus protection (e.g. Kaspersky), security management (e.g. Verizon) etc. over the net;
• As a Service Hub from where users can for example obtain secretarial services on demand for a pre-defined price; and
• Internet Integration for in-the-cloud integration of cloud-based services from various providers

For enterprises, the question is how to evaluate these services realistically -- particularly given their short track record – and if they’re ready to move ahead, which services are the most efficient and secure.

Netspective offers up-to-the-minute cloud computing expertise

With the immense possibilities that virtualization and SOA offer, the time is not far when loosely coupled services running on an agile, scalable infrastructure will make integrated cloud computing the way to go.

If you’re ready to embrace the cloud, we’re ready to help. We leverage the deep customization and application configuration capabilities that the cloud infrastructure offers, and help organizations reap the benefits of greater scalability, reduced risk, total disaster recovery and impressive uptime numbers.

The cloud services currently available are for the most part isolated service clouds that customers must plug into individually. But we can show you where cloud computing is going and how it will converge into an integrated computing model offering tremendous power and flexibility.

We have been early adopters of the business model, and run a strong practice as cloud computing aggregators and integrators. We help organizations integrate cloud components with other enterprise applications whether third-party or home grown. Don’t wait for the market to leave you behind; come to us for common-sense cloud computing answers.