Reduce or eliminate Capital Expenditures with cloud network architecture

A new server is a capital expenditure.  The server lasts over a year and becomes an asset to the company.  In addition to the server, the supporting hardware is required.  This includes additional hardware including the backup systems, redundancy systems, the rack and the air conditioning. 

In order to implement the system additional resources are required.  These resources include the billable hours for the technicians setting up the server.  The resources for the development teams building or customizing the application to match your business needs.  In addition the resources required to plan out the implementation.

A good rule of thumb for planning is 3 hours of planning for every 1 hour of implementation.  That would be a minimum.  The more planning the fewer problems occur during the implementation.  IT technicians get excited because they are seldom involved in the planning process.  So it’s like pushing a button and everything works.

An IT deployment plan is like setting up dominoes.  If it’s done right pushing one domino causes a chain reaction that causes the last domino to fall exactly as planned.  If done wrong the series of falling dominos stops.  The domino planner needs to determine how to get the dominos to start falling again. 

To the owner and even the technician a clean IT deployment is no more than pushing a button and the magic happens.  The months of planning, testing and re-planning are not seen.  Only the 15 minutes to make it work.  Often the users have no idea the planning is even going on.  The first they hear of the deployment is a short time, during the training, before the new technology is implemented.

When deploying to the cloud, the dominos have already been setup.  Very little planning is required to customize the process to your business systems.  Planning is reduced to weeks and deployment to hours.  There is no initial capital expenditure for hardware, software, backups, redundancy system and storage planning or technical support.  In other words, No capital expenditure is required.  Instead the expense is an operational expense, like paying for electricity or water. The technology is rolled out in the same way the owner turns on power or water for the business.  The Cloud Company opens a virtual valve. When open the service instantly starts.

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