In today’s competitive economy, businesses are continuously searching for innovative ways to reduce costs, work effectively, and increase competitive advantage. The Cloud computing utility is being used in countless creative ways by businesses both large and small:
- Businesses are reducing infrastructure and IT operations costs while freeing up IT resources for more strategic work,
- Small to mid-sized companies can use the cloud’s on-demand scaleability to operate compute-intensive applications without having to spend heavily on servers and network infrastructure, and
- Businesses can launch and test concepts conservatively by eliminating select upfront hardware, software, and network costs, and can have more cost predictability by paying based on compute-consumption.
Centric’s Perspective
The amount of capital being invested by the major Cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.) is truly staggering. And the degree of functionality available today for core functions such as data storage and application deployment presents an attractive business case. Driving these capabilities are advancements in virtualization, the standardization of various software stacks, heavy investment in remote management technologies, and the build-out of massive state-of-the-art data centers. But technology is only half the battle. Centric combines our deep business, strategy, and technology consulting skills to help your business understand hype vs. reality thereby allowing you to begin leveraging the benefits of the cloud compute utility today.
Getting Started
Centric can help determine if Cloud computing makes sense for your organization by answering the following questions:
- How can Cloud computing be leveraged and what are the risks?
- Can your current applications be redeployed to one of the major cloud platforms yielding cost savings as well as increased security and reliability?
- Which business application migration efforts can provide the greatest value to the organization?
- How does your organization get started evaluating your options for Cloud computing?
Our consultants have experience with all of the major public cloud service providers. Our experience with
Microsoft’s Azure platform is especially strong given our leadership in
Azure Boot Camps and our engagement with the Redmond product development teams. Examples of Centric’s cloud computing offerings include:
- Cloud business case development including ROI assessments
- Proof of concept development
- Data center cost reductions analysis and build
- Re-platforming on premise solutions to the cloud
- Cloud education & mentoring
Contact Centric
Marc Johnson to hear our perspective on cloud computing, or to learn how we can help you use it to transform your business.
