One of the greatest advantages to being in the cloud is you don’t need to be an expert to have your business running in the cloud. The beauty of this is that you’re provided with all the resources and specialists you need to have a successful cloud solution. You can say good-bye to the days of buying and managing applications, security, software, and storage. The only thing you need to do is find a trustworthy provider to manage the day to day of your environment.
Let’s breakdown some of the benefits of being in the cloud that don’t require you to have the knowledge and expertise to keep it running.
Sales and Engineering Experts on Staff
A majority of cloud providers have sales and engineering experts on staff for recommendations and ongoing support. Being in the cloud lets you take advantage of having third party cloud experts in your corner. You no longer need to worry about all the little details it takes to maintain your infrastructure. On-staff experts will handle everything from migration, monitoring, and support once you’re in the cloud.
No Need for Full Time Employment (FTE)
In the past, you needed to have someone on staff, certified and maintaining those certifications so they are constantly up to date in order to support the environment. A cloud engineer is going to cost anywhere between a $100k - $150k salary, plus benefits, vacations and PTO, and insurance. In the cloud, you won’t have to worry about someone being on PTO because you’ll always have a full staff of experts available. Not to mention, certifications can be expensive and time consuming to maintain. Some classes cost as much as $10k, and that doesn’t even include study time, materials, and PASSING the certification exams.
Save on Business Costs
As mentioned above, you’ll be able to take advantage of some huge savings without FTE. Being in the cloud allows you to save money and use that on other business initiatives. For example, product development, project management, company events, or other department employee hires. In addition, there are no hardware refreshes required in the cloud. Recommended hardware refreshes should typically be done between 4 and 7 years, but in the cloud you will no longer need forklift upgrades. You have now successfully created predictable IT budget and billing, IT as fixed fee.
All these benefits enable your IT teams to focus their time and energy on the work that more directly benefits your company because your overall IT operational costs significantly decrease. At vArida we have on-staff certified engineers and sales experts readily available. We also take on the maintenance of the hardware and support of the software to ensure your cloud is always current and running properly. Additionally, our engineers are always up to date with certifications to support our cloud clients.
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