As many of you already know, we have been\u00a0 strong proponent of cloud-based services for a very long time…\u00a0\u00a0 The idea of\u00a0 maintaining an expensive and complex in-house infrastructure to support basic IT services \u00a0is steadily shifting away from mainstream business. Adoption of cloud-based services continues to climb steadily.<\/p>\n
However, a recent \u00a0article on the Dec’09\/Jan’10 Fortune Small Business<\/a> magazine titled “Control the Cloud<\/a>“, provided an excellent example that “one-platform” does not fit all.<\/p>\n The FBS article describes a company,\u00a0which provides a specific set of application services for its customers, whose requirements were not met by cloud-computing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They reconsidered their implementation, brought it back in-house,\u00a0 this time they used server virtualization to minimize\u00a0 the number of physical servers which resulted in significant cost reduction including space, power and air.<\/p>\n Although, in the end, not a less expensive solution than cloud-based computing,\u00a0 it did meet the requirements and goals, at significant costs reductions than their previous hardware based implementations.<\/p>\n Let us know what you think! – If you have a story to share, send it our way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As many of you already know, we have been\u00a0 strong proponent of cloud-based services for a very long time…\u00a0\u00a0 The idea of\u00a0 maintaining an expensive and complex in-house infrastructure to support basic IT services \u00a0is steadily shifting away from mainstream business. 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