How secure is the new e-mail system? Our provider has multiple geographic locations, real-time backup between their locations of our data and excellent virus filtering. A 99.9 percent uptime guarantee and 24/7 support round out their service. In the end, we don’t have to do server software updates; we don’t have to pay for expensive support.
Check out this article from Top Tech News, it’s a great analysis of how cloud could work for your business. A colleague recently highlighted this to me wonderfully, at a small startup, one of the server guys was trying to get sign-off for a new email spam server, my colleague was asking:
- Why did we want a guy spending hours configuring a server/device to restrict spam when we can buy in a service?
- Could we not use that investment elsewhere more effectively in our business? A faster web server, or better technology for the development/UAT team?
- Are we seeking this as it covers both our technical teams playing with a new device/technology and fixes a business requirement for less spam in our email?
We need to focus on our core business first, establish what it is we need, and whether we can shift our investment away from areas of marginal benefit to revenue, towards our core business – do I want a guy continually tinkering and pushing the backups through, or do I just want to buy in a service where everything is backed up securely online and handled by someone else, letting my server guy focus on the backup times, on data archiving, data management and adding ‘real’ value to the business, like installing servers or proactively monitoring the estate?
Every business, every enterprise and customer will be different, with different aspects that are core to their business for legislation or confidentialilty reasons, but there will be elements of the IT service, the IT function that aren’t, we need to establish which we can provide to the end user more efficiently at a lower overall cost.
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