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Cloud computing 101 for Businesses
The disruption of cloud computing to the IT channel
how do hosted desktops save money?
immediately cut costs by around 50%, or £900 per user
For businesses of any size, the current economic climate is proving challenging, but particularly so for small to medium-sized enterprises. In order to survive in these uncertain times, flexibility and adaptability are key qualities. However, change needn’t be scary, difficult, expensive or time-consuming - in fact, streamlining your business processes could be one of the best things you have ever done.

Quick savings by:
  • Reduces management costs
  • No need to buy software!
  • Cut electricity usage
  • Reduce amount spent on hardware
  • Hosted desktops remove the burden of managing individual desktop environments in-house, leaving you to concentrate on growing your business. Information is stored in our secure data centres and delivered over the internet, so your own, fully customisable desktop can be accessed wherever you are, whenever you want. It is exactly the same as using a PC - simply plug into your broadband connection and you’re ready to go.

    Headline Cost including Partner Margin over 3 years
    With budget cuts seemingly an inevitable fact of life these days, many organisations are recognising the cost benefits of moving to cloud computing services. With only a simple monthly charge per desktop, you can scale your provision up or down as needed.

    Hosted desktop Regular PC
       Hosted Virtual Desktop £ 1,764.00
       Hardware & Peripherals £ 449.00 £ 638.18
       Hardware Warranty/Support £ 0.00 £ 150.00
       Microsoft Office 2010 £ 0.00 £ 299.00
       Virus Scanning Software £ 0.00 £ 119.97
       Backup Software £ 0.00 £ 119.85
       Electricity £ 236.52 £ 1,419.12
       Management Costs £ 0.00 £ 2,700.00
    Costs £ 2,449.52 £ 5,446.12
     
    Savings £ 2,996.60 over 3 years

    Costs incurred by regular PCs include capital expenditure, management, power and more. Click here to download a calculator to work out your savings, and see how these figures are derived.



    Energy / power
    Rising energy costs, combined with government-imposed financial penalties on carbon production, make cutting your power consumption a vital consideration. However, as all of your data and applications are stored in our energy-efficient data centres, hosted desktops allow you to make significant savings. Centralisation of computing resources is a way to cut power consumption, as you will use only 10% of the power a normal PC does.

    Cost of buying PCs and software licenses, and installing, maintaining and upgrading hardware
    Do more with less - fight waste and reduce overheads. We look after the software, so no management is needed. Pay only for the resources you use and scale your IT provision up or down almost instantly. Time = money, so this simple, instant IT provision saves both.

    Disaster recovery / backup
    If your office is condemned, for instance, and you cannot go back inside it, hosted desktops allow you immediate access from another location - so you can go to any other office and get working again, or work from home, a coffee shop etc. And, with a virtual desktop accessed via a thin client, there is no operating system on it, as well as no software or moving parts. This means that crashes just don’t happen.

    Greater security means fewer financial losses
    Cyber crime is on the rise - identity theft, fraud etc. Hosted desktops let you keep on top of the latest security developments without having to shell out for expensive new programmes.

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