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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 hosted applications
Benefits
- Deliver applications of an enterprise
class infrastructure at an SME price tag
- Extend reach of your application via
Terminal Services, Citrix or web
- Integrated billing
- Inclusive of backup and disaster
recovery
Managing your own applications, hardware upgrades, software updates and patches, nightly back-ups etc, is very expensive.
Although the cost of hardware is lower the cost of power, cooling and management rises significantly year on year.
Cloud Computing helps SMEs by taking away those costs. We deliver your applications from our resilient, replicated data centre cloud. And we provide them at a predictable per user, per month cost.
When working with us, you'll see cost reductions in all these areas.
IT staff
We support the applications as standard - even on-site printers, internet connections etc
Off-site backup
We provide a full backup each night
Remote/home working
Your applications are hosted from the internet backbone so they are available securely when ever you connect to the internet.
Disaster recovery
We replicate your data so it's always available for you.
Down time
We provide over 99.9% up time on your applications and we back this up with a money back guarantee
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How does it work?
So how do you get your application into the cloud?
From our experience of working with SME applications over 99% are suitable for cloud hosting.
Once tested you get the application back either as a web page or a remote desktop using Citrix or Terminal services.
