Who Benefits From The Cloud?

The simple answer to the question of who benefits from cloud platforms is this: any individual or organization that needs scalable, on-demand enterprise-grade server hosting. That includes startups, small businesses, established corporations, government agencies, and just about any other organization that depends on IT infrastructure. But why cloud rather than dedicated servers or traditional virtual private servers?

We have written elsewhere about the benefits of public and private cloud platforms for small businesses and enterprise organizations, but I’d like to zoom out a bit and consider what the cloud brings to organizations in comparison to other hosting options.

New business models

Dedicated servers offer the best performance for many workloads, but optimizing for performance alone isn’t always the right approach: a well-engineered cloud platform offers solid performance alongside agility that is hard to match with other types of server hosting. For decades, banks relied on batch processing of transactions using legacy software hosted on dedicated hardware (or even ancient mainframes). Today, modern consumers expect applications that provide real time interactions and instant transactions, something that the old batch-oriented systems couldn’t provide.

Banks have been able to exploit the flexibility, agility, and scalability of public and private cloud platforms to offer real time banking services. A similar “cloud effect” can be observed in many industries; the on-demand nature of cloud servers introduces opportunities to reimagine traditional systems and workflows for the modern world.

Manage the business, not IT infrastructure

Businesses should be able to focus on what really matters. IT is not how most businesses make money, but it is the foundation on which value-generating products and services are built.

Steadfast Simplicity Clouds are designed to provide all the flexibility and agility of the cloud with none of the management headaches and complexity of traditional cloud platforms.

Our customers include businesses of all sizes across a vast array of industries, including IT service providers, developers, marketing agencies, legal firms, financial services companies, engineering firms, architects, healthcare providers, manufacturing companies, and many more.

They choose the cloud because it empowers them to deploy servers on-demand without the challenges and lead times associated with physical hardware while paying only for the resources they use.

They choose Steadfast Simplicity Cloud because our experts help them to build and manage the perfect private, public, and hybrid cloud server deployment for their business.

Infrastructure that grows with your business

Many of our customers come to us because infrastructure has become a bottleneck constraining the growth of their business. They are unable to offer the quality of service and performance their customers expect.

We are able to build them a custom cloud platform that will grow as their business grows, allowing them to add (and remove) server resources to meet the current needs of their business. IT infrastructure is supposed to empower, not constrain, and the cloud makes that ideal a reality.

Efficient infrastructure spending

Both public and private cloud platforms can help to reduce cloud spending. One of the most challenging aspects of IT infrastructure planning is deciding how many servers are required to meet current loads, future requirements, and to account for redundancy and business continuity planning.

Both overspending and underspending are a risk, but cloud infrastructure is inherently elastic, allowing cloud users to deploy servers that track their changing requirements.

Businesses that embrace Steadfast Simplicity Clouds gain more than just another way to deploy servers: they are empowered to grow their business while we take care of their infrastructure needs. To learn more about what Steadfast Simplicity Clouds can do for your business, contact us today for a free consultation.