Clouds are light.

Clouds are light very elastic, virtually exist but physically don’t, they don’t have boundaries and neither do they require platform to exist nor software to execute. Similarly the computing power created on cloud architecture is light, elastic but requires platform to exist and software’s to execute.

We boast on first of its big B2B enterprise environment to be deployed on cloud architecture. Earlier, we like most of the organization have been working with physical hardware since a decade and had many constraints in terms of scaling horizontally or vertically. The nature of business being B2B there exists a never ending demand of storage and processing capacity. We could understand that physical infrastructure was simply not meant for this type of businesses.

The capital expenditure use to be huge and the operational cost in terms of resources to manage the hardware use to be big, we use to pay more than 1 million a year for managing the infrastructure and during the course of time we created a lot of dependency on individuals in terms of management and configuration and it proved to be person driven management rather than process driven.

The immediate difference which we can see after moving on cloud being drastic saving on the human resource cost, saving in licensees and maintenance cost. Most of the hardware, network services got outsourced as a part of managed services The current scenario is that we don’t have any network architect as we do have partners to manage the online network.

After moving to cloud architecture and opting for managed service the next target areas would be internal networking and hardware team. With time and taking inflationary cost into account, their salaries are not justifying the cost of maintenance as we are having multiple partners to render support to us for hardware and networks. If we are able to achieve this there will be an additional saving of .60 million a year which is not a small amount for any organization.

There is saving on every corner depends on the organization the way it leverages the outsourcing and contracting strengths.

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