Top 10 Things I Like Most About My In-house Computer Service
Today's article is an anonymous guest post by one of our Houston cloud computing clients on what she likes about her in-house computer system.
The Top 10 Things I Like Most About My In-house Computer System
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I hope you’ve enjoyed reading each item in detail.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
Takeaway: While this post was written tongue-in-cheek, the message is clear. Cloud computing has changed the way small and midsized organizations conduct business.
A more competitive market landscape, leaner budgets, and the quest for better business flexibility and scalability all play a part in the cloud revolution.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, made a commitment to the cloud: “Microsoft invested $8.7 billion in R&D, with most of that devoted to cloud technologies. Today, 70 percent of Microsoft’s 40,000 engineers work on cloud-related products and services, in 2011 that number will grow to 90 percent.”
Certainly, there are still a few advantages of having a portion of your IT services residing in-house. Some believe they have better control by owning in-house equipment, rather than being at the mercy of third-party computer services or tied into their long-term contracts.
IT may seem simple at first, but...
Owning your own equipment may seem fairly innocuous for a small start-up business. However, over time, key components - such as CPU, disk, RAM, and, to a certain extent, the network – begin to bottleneck, resulting in latency or crashing of your system.
These problems grow exponentially in organization with satellite locations and remote users or when remote pc access is required. All too often the typical in-house answer for these problems is to throw more money at it. Buy another server. Add more redundancy. Hire another IT support person. It’s becomes a vicious, never-ending cycle.
For these reasons, budget forecasting for IT is also an issue when you invest in your own equipment. You never know when IT problems can arise, and to what extent. You find yourself having to assume more capital expenditures and risk.
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