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Cloud Computing and SaaSCloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS)
I was asked the other day is Cloud Computing like SaaS? Well I thought I would share the response for anyone else that night be interested in my opinion.
SaaS is about delivering a single application, normally this application has been written to be very scalable and a single application instance can serve many many customers. Almost exclusively these applications are Web 2.0 applications delivered to the end user in a browser from the Internet or Cloud.
A good example of this is SalesForce.com a well know CRM application.
The similarities between SaaS and Cloud Computing are the fact that the client is buying a service which normally consists of the applications an amount of storage space and a Service Level Agreement provided by a service provider. With both the solutions you normally get an elastic infrastructure 10 people 1 month 100 the next without the typical infrastructure considerations
Cloud Computing is however more about providing a completely integrated IT solution a mix of Web 2.0, and traditional applications including Office and hosted voice all within a hosted desktop.
So I would say the differences are:
Cloud Computing is capable of delivering an integrated IT solution comprising of all your applications rather than a single application.
Cloud Computing is about running your IT as a service with predictable costs and a quantifiable Service Level Agreement.
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Managed email and collaboration
Benefits
- Over 99.9% reliable or money back
- Email as a service. No infrastructure
or licensing challenges
- Inclusive of AV and anti-spam
- Supports mobile devices
Email and collaboration services are one of the most costly systems to manage. Your aniti-virus, anti-spam protection have to react to the challenges of a 24/7 world where significant threats travel the globe in minutes .
Email is the fastest growth area within storage. Email is now responsible for over 80% of all business-to-business communication. Maintaining system availability has never been more important.
SMEs and large companies alike are spending a significant part of their IT budgets maintaining, backing up and making sure email is always available.
We offer a number of options depending on the needs of the business.
- Managed email filtering (AV antispam), disaster recovery and archiving. We integrate these with your on-site mail server.
- Managed email - We run your email for you including anti-virus, anti-spam, backups, mobile email devices, archiving, and reporting in our high availability environment with dual location data centres.
This service may include the software licenses on a per month per mailbox basis. This allows you to up and down scale at a months notice.
Gone are the days of stand-alone email systems. Collaborative systems need businesses to integrate their CRM with email, telephony, accounts and file systems. Our Cloud based offerings in all these areas are already joined up. The cost of integrating these systems has usually already been undertaken. Applications such as Sharepoint, Microsoft CRM, aswell as telephony are all based on a cost per user per month.
Collaboration tools allow businesses to work across boundaries and are ideal for business-to-business collaboration. We offer hosted Sharepoint and Microsoft CRM applications, fully managed with or without Microsoft rental licensing.
For product information on Microsoft CRM click here
For product information on Microsoft SharePoint click here
