What is it all about?
For the last 20 years, Information Technology (IT) has gone through a huge evolution. From enormous machines, which were as big as a small house they are now the size of a Blackberry “toy”. Their power has increased significantly. But the number of problems has grown as well. To overcome this , the need to service both the equipment and the software has to be re-evaluated. A new delivery model is required. “IT as a Service” (ITaaS) keeps all the advantages of a leading edge computer system and at the same time it avoids all the major problems:
- Hardware: The computer parts have their own average lifecycle of 1-3 years. Power supplies, moving parts like HD, DVDs and fans break, wiring harnesses fail, and hard drives are also mechanical;
- Software: Continuous upgrades of the hardware in concert with software enhancements forces users to acquire the most recent software applications; Continuous forced upgrades and updates as soon as new versions appear on the market have unintended consequences;
- High TCO (Total Cost of Ownership): The need for expensive individual licensed software; Costly maintenance and repairs caused by either mechanical breakdown or viruses, crashes, electrical failure, etc;
- Complexity of Deployment, Maintenance, System Management:Small organizations cannot afford to hire highly qualified IT professionals on a permanent basis;
- Continuous spending: The need for individual licensed anti-virus and other security software, costly remote access solutions for home-based agents and branch offices;
We are constantly hearing cut expenses, reduce tech resources and management while our clients’ processing and data demands are ever-increasing. Today small business owners are looking to their IT advisers to find a way to take advantage of the new centralized model of on-demand technology delivery.
We suggest to go “back to the future” with ITaaS and solve your IT problems with the help of a centralized system built with the most modern technology of today and tomorrow.
The main idea of ITaaS is to escape all the above mentioned problems, reduce unnecessary investments and make operational costs both manageable and predictable through small moderated monthly payments. As for small and midsized (SME) companies it will allow them to eliminate large startup investments and use software and technologies that were previously unaffordable. As for large corporations it will allow them to minimize expenses for technical support staff while optimizing license and computer equipment costs.
Using state-of-the-art data centres with the highest level of security along with the most up-to-date modern technology, customers have full access to the latest version of their software with 100% reliability of their data. Moreover, access is available from anywhere on any device (e.g. desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.), at any time with full service and support.
If implemented correctly, it can deliver numerous capabilities which will ultimately translate to business benefits. Some of those capabilities include:
Speed and agility. IT’s ability to respond more quickly translates into faster provisioning of services that fuel the business. By driving innovation and differentiation in today’s always-on business environment, IT can create a sustainable competitive advantage and go way beyond being “just” a cost center, which is how the static and inflexible legacy environments in so many data centers today are often perceived.
Leveraging virtualization to enable cloud computing. The ITaaS model implies the adoption of cloud computing and requires a number of changes. Typically the first change has related to technology—more specifically, to server virtualization. In fact, ESG’s annual IT spending survey indicated that “increased use of server virtualization” was the number one IT priority for the last two years. It should also be noted that this research indicated that cloud computing was the fastest climber from 2010 to 2011, demonstrating that organizations were going beyond just the”interested” stage and actually allocating IT budget to create cloud computing environments.
an impact on how those environments are built. The new building blocks for the cloud are not just individual VMs, physical servers, networks, or storage equipment, but rather a new unit of tightly integrated and converged infrastructures. These new converged platforms are delivered either as a complete solution or in the form of a reference architecture that can be used to build out private cloud environments. This IaaS layer is the foundation for use cases ranging from application test/dev to virtual desktops. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that many service providers have already adopted this architecture to deliver enterprise class cloud services as well.
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