ccording to Paul Kane, interim sales and marketing manager

with Servecentric, careful-ly-planned cloud solutions can have a significant impact within a company by reducing delivery times of projects and benefiting productivity within an organisation.

“Of course, the most im-portant advice Irish businesses should take when approaching a cloud-based solution is that they need to plan it like any solution they want to deploy within their organisation. They need to have a clear idea and understanding of what they want to achieve. They need to define the project goals and the criteria for success before they start a cloud project, and they need to have proper milestones set as they progress the rollout of a cloud solution deployment in order to deter-mine its success,” said Kane.

With an ever-growing skill shortage within the tech in-dustry, companies dealing with computing services internally have become less common place.

Cloud computing service providers like Servecentric can offer dedicated and ex-perienced staff to meet the demand of both small and large enterprises so compa-nies no longer have to worry about the competitive talent pool according to Kane.

“Generally speaking, if we are not providing the client directly with a cloud-based solution then they are using our services to deliver one themselves either to their internal users or their exter-nal clients provisioning their own private clouds using our underlying hosting services.

“The skills shortage is also a growing issue within the IT world. They don’t have to wor-ry about hiring staff to do this work as we have a dedicated,

certified and highly-experi-enced staff here to take that responsibility for them,” he said.

With a hand in both public and private clouds as well as long-term expertise around onsite delivery, Servecentric focused its investment in several ISO accreditations to ensure compliance and indus-tries best practices.

According to Kane, if it is felt there are suitable projects for a cloud solution, then it is best to scope out exactly the type of service that is required and research what solutions are

available.“It is clear to us that cloud

computing is now an accepted mainstream solution to many of the requirements for enter-prises of all sizes. The use of cloud solutions for business continuity will continue to accelerate, especially among enterprises who are being compelled to have a mature business continuity strate-gy. We see a convergence of on-premise, off-premise, virtual and physical environ-ments,” said Kane.

Cloud computing services are becoming more and more

prevalent in today’s digital marketplace and in order to stay ahead, adopting cloud solutions might be key for businesses tackling the ev-er-changing trends within their industry.

As for the future of cloud, Kane believes that Openstack will become the industry stan-dard. “We see Openstack be-coming the de-facto standard for delivering and managing cloud solutions for vendors, and it is what we will be us-ing to deliver our next gener-ation of cloud solutions here at Servecentric.”

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A cloud-based solution can offer many positives to a business without a major capital outlay that many IT projects typically would entail, writes Ross O’Neill

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