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Cloud solutions mean you no longer have the enormous wall facing every emerging/smaller business:- the significant capital outlay for Servers and related, expensive Network equipment (much less the software and licenses).

For most Kiwi organisations, this has been an inevitable ‘suck it up’ gut-punch, taking up significant amounts of working capital to implement. It is small wonder most business owners look at I.T. spend like a trip to the dentist:- dreaded pain! Cloud services eliminate much of this pain for you. - turning what used to be a large capital expense into an operating expense, and therefore an affordable, predictable regular payment.

Thus – cloud services remove what has typically been an overwhelming obstacle to market entry for start-up/small businesses.

EXPAND OR CONTRACT IT INFRASTRUCTURE QUICKLY, EFFICIENTLY

With many New Zealand businesses there are sometimes quick and aggressive expansion as well as contraction. In either case Cloud solutions give you maximum flexibility to ensure your Network grows or shrinks to exactly match the requirements of the business.

A traditional in-house server set up is hopelessly inflexible in comparison.

BECOME FREE FROM THE BURDEN OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT

The Cloud solution enables you the luxury of no longer having to deal with the headache and cost of housing and managing servers and databases. This is instead covered by a fixed regular fee to your ‘Cloud’ service provider. The cost to you of having a staff member looking after the equipment vanishes.

ENJOY THE PEACE OF MIND OF SECURITY

Theft or damage to your current on-site Server would be a catastrophe for your business, no question. This concern is again virtually eliminated with Cloud services where all such risks are reduced to the bare minimum with the much bigger, much better-protected Cloud facility. This includes not only physical protection of equipment but superior malware and virus protection.

THE 'ECONOMY-OF-SCALE' FACTOR

Because the ‘Cloud’ provider houses many other clients aside from you within it’s resources – it benefits from the economy of scale. Overall costs of housing and maintaining the hardware and software are simply lower than they would be for just your business. The analogy is like owning and running your own power supply – much more expensive for you than it is for Mercury Energy.