30% to 69% TCO Savings With Computing on Demand
Considering the enormous pressures on the IT budgets in the present day’s competitive environment, companies are looking for IT solutions that can be flexibly scaled up or down depending upon the business needs. You can consider Cloud computing or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for such requirements as an attractive alternative proposition. One such example of such a service is the IBM’s Computing on Demand (CoD) which provides a variety of choices and pricing options. CoD also enables security, affordability, flexibility and virtually risk free access to IT infrastructure resources.
Customers across a number of industries are interviewed by IBM. For a model set up using IBM CoD, TCO savings vary from 30% to 90%. Additionally, three specific IBM CoD customers mentioned at length in the case studies, have the advantages of:
- New potential to solve a preexisting, obstinate issue.
- faster processing of data at the end of each business day, and,
- The skill to apply a fresh, original business model.
Cloud computing, covering hardware, software and applications, is the emerging trend for providing transparent services over the internet in a dynamic, expandable and virtual manner. One need not have prior knowledge or expertise in technology infrastructure to take advantage of this new technology. It encompasses the recent trends in internet technology like software as a service (Saas), Web 2.0 etc. Modern concepts in IT infrastructure solutions like grid computing, utility computing and autonomic computing are utilized in Cloud computing. For smaller companies like an independent software vendor (ISV) or small internet companies, cloud computing helps save large capital outlays in hardware, software and skilled manpower thus providing enormous savings.
