What is The Cloud?
Let’s ask Wikipedia; The concept of cloud computing fills a perpetual need of IT: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities.
Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on Internet protocols, and it typically involves provisioning of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources. It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the Internet. This may take the form of web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through a web browser as if they were programs installed locally on their own computers.
Cloud computing providers deliver applications via the internet, which are accessed from a web browser, while the business software and data are stored on servers at a remote location. In some cases, legacy applications (line of business applications that until now have been prevalent in thin client Windows computing) are delivered via a screen-sharing technology, while the computing resources are consolidated at a remote data center location; in other cases, entire business applications have been coded using web-based technologies such as AJAX.
Most cloud computing infrastructures consist of services delivered through shared data-centers and appearing as a single point of access for consumers’ computing needs.
Are Cloud Solutions for me?
Cloud solutions offer agility, scalability, reliability and affordability for small and medium businesses. If your business could benefit from the flexibility of co-tenanted software, Cloud offers some very compelling business systems that would have been out of reach only a few short years ago.
Why fusionone?
We are not a products company, we are a solutions company. We spend the time to understand your business objectives and make recommendations that may be Cloud based, customer owned equipment based or a high-bred. We are about the right solution, not just any solution.
