How do you know if you are ready to move your IT into the cloud ?

You can tell if you need to look at cloud solutions if you are in any of the following positions.

You have a problem that can be solved by a cloud service.
You have enough hardware going end of life to make an ongoing operating expense more appealing than a capital expenditure for a replacement
You have high internal IT costs that could be replaced with a cloud service.
You have strict reliability or uptime requirements

Installation of Servers and Solutions will be a further £2000
By replacing your systems you will still need IT Support and this may be a further £500 per month.
You will need to put in place Disaster Recovery measures, Tape Backup, Distributed File Systems, Disk to Disk backups or virtual servers.
You pay IT Services £500 per month to support your network.
You will need to ensure the backup procedures are followed each day.
Hardware and Software must be upgraded on average every 3 years.
cloud solutions

Your users connect to a cloud based server, to run SAGE, MS EXCHANGE, OFFICE365 or a Bespoke Line of Business solution.
Disaster Recovery is part of the solution and Backups are carried out online.
IT Support is part of the solution
Backup is automatic each day.
Hardware and software upgrades are part of the solution

Leaving you to get on with your business.

By 2016 cloud computing will be the bulk of new IT spend – Gartner

39% of SMB market is not using cloud services – Spiceworks

37% of IT professionals surveyed say that senior management is pushing IT to switch to operating expenses model – CDW