The buzz word in IT at the moment is ‘cloud’ but what does it mean?
If you can imagine flying on a plane and gaining altitude, as you ascend through the clouds for a brief moment you will be in the clouds and unable to see anything else around you. Not knowing where things are is the idea behind the term.
From an IT perspective the Internet is seen as the cloud and the many services that are available over the Internet are known as ‘cloud services’. In most cases a user of a service is unaware of where the services is coming from (and probably doesn’t need to know) .
The main benefits of cloud services are the cost and manageability advantages that come with economies of scale. For example, the Fiberphone service runs off of a few servers that are dedicated to managing phone calls for the end users. Instead of having a dedicated server to each customer’s site we are able to provide the same high quality service using a few centralised servers. The users share the servers but don’t notice any difference than they would having an on-site server. This allows Fiberphone to provide more competitive pricing due to passing on the savings in hardware and management costs.
To learn more about how Fiberphone could benefit your organisation talk to one of our friendly representatives on 0800 001 900.