The Cloud Is Flexible - Modify Your Capacity on Demand
One of the most challenging aspects of traditional IT infrastructure design is predicting future computing, storage, and networking capacity needs. If the design in any one of those categories is too low, then at best you'll find yourself adding additional hardware to a machine that is already partially through its life cycle and, at worst, you might find yourself permanently short of those resources due to budget constraints. If the design is too high, then a significant portion of the infrastructure will go unused thus wasting valuable capital up front as well as incurring unneeded power, cooling, and maintenance costs.
The Cloud Offers What You Need - When You Need It
In a Cloud Computing environment, capacity can be added in minutes thus avoiding a lengthy procurement process. It can also be reduced almost as quickly! For example, if year end reporting puts a noticable stress on an otherwise ideal configuration, simply add some additional CPU and RAM for a month and remove it when you no longer need it. Try doing that with traditional hardware!
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Need to make a temporary backup of a large amount of data? No problem. C3 can provision the additional disk space in minutes and you only need to pay for it in monthly increments. As soon as it is no longer needed, it can be safely removed and your monthly bill will be lowered to its original amount. |
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About to make a significant upgrade to one of your servers? Give us a call and ask us to take a snapshot for you. If things go well, call us back and tell us to commit the snapshot. If the upgrade has you pulling your hair out, just let us know and we can revert your image in minutes and you can try again another day. |
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Seasonal businesses such as ecommerce sites might require additional cpu and internet bandwidth to handle the holiday shopping blitz. Because the Cloud is flexible, those additional resources can be added in minutes and then removed as soon as the online crowds have dwindled. |
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Whatever your needs prove to be, the Cloud can provide those resources on short notice and for whatever length of time you need them. This allows your IT to become more reactive, more flexible, and by not wasting costs on overbuilding infrastructure for anticipated peak periods, the Cloud allows you to be more profitable. |
