Consider information
technology outsourcing and how IT outsourcing can save money on your
Mission Critical Applications.
Top Benefits of IT Outsourcing
1. Reduction in Start-up Costs
Although owning your own servers can
seem like a stable, long-term solution the costs associated with
implementing it can quickly compromise a company’s budgeted expenditure.
A Managed Hosting environment eases this burden by offering carrier-grade
shared infrastructure that is resilient and scalable.
This enables companies to
reduce their IT Capex and spreads the costs over the term of the contract as a Opex
cost, also importantly companies can achieve ROI at a more rapid
rate.
2. Hardware Depreciation Issues
Server components depreciate at the
rate at which technology advancements increase. Whether advancements
in chip sets, sas drives or network upgrades, keeping up with the
demands of growing your IT Infrastructure can result in unplanned
systematic technical refreshes. These increase costs and lengthen
the ROI. By off-loading the responsibility of owning the hardware
the burden of financial depreciation is passed on.
3. Technology Advancements
Technological enhancements to hardware,
software and communication devices allow for the continual drive
to streamline and improve business processes, having an ongoing
positive impact on running efficiencies. However it is a common
situation to find a company badly in need of up-grading infrastructure
but the internal IT staff are resistant to change where it risks
stability or will increase their workload to integrate software
or equipment they are not familiar with.
4. Ongoing Maintenance
One of the key considerations when contemplating
selective sourcing is the costs of efficiently and effectively maintaining
it and the risks involved if this is not done properly. Effectively
managing maintenance, backups, and security, ensuring all of your
services are functioning 100% at all times is very costly to maintain.
IT Outsourcing releases you from that burden – with predictable manageable
costs.
5. IT Skill Set Access
Employing and managing IT Skills in-house
is a significant ongoing investment. Often IT staff only specialise
in one area and potentially don’t stay abreast of the latest technology
advances and standards which can slowly erode a companies’ potential
to continually progress its IT infrastructure. IT Outsourcing to a
reliable skilled resource such as Macquarie Hosting gives you instant
access to over 30 highly skilled and certified professionals who
are leading experts in their fields of speciality.
6. Scalability – Scale up or Down as per your needs.
The economic uncertainty means companies
are taking a more conservative approach to predicting forecasts
for the upcoming financial year. Outsourcing IT infrastructure is
completely scalable based on your business requirements. At Macquarie
we quickly develop and deploy new infrastructure in a controlled
cost effective and risk adverse fashion. This is achieved by implementing
control and consistency from day one by assigning skilled project
manager and lead engineer to every project. The team that deploys
your first server is often the one that deploys your 10th or 50th
so they know and understand and the special configuration that you
require, in essence they become an extension of your IT team. At
Macquarie Hosting every solution is custom and you can change your
configurations and solutions options at any time.
7. Migration to Managed Environment |
Infrastructure Hosting
Many companies have already made the
significant investment in infrastructure. How can you capitalise
on the investment made – but move toward a more cost effective solution
moving forward? Macquarie Hosting works with many companies in this
situation and recommends staged migrations to assist with maximising
your current investment as well as moving to a more outsourced environment
with predictable ongoing costs.
As technology advances, governments
continue to introduce new regulations, policies and accreditations
to protect consumers, data and the foundation of core infrastructure
from catastrophic loss, hacking and privacy. One such standard is
the PCI Compliance Data Security Standard, which is a worldwide
security standard assembled by the Payment Card Industry Security
Standards Council (PCI SSC). This standard was created to help organizations
that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, hacking and
various other security vulnerabilities and threats. Implementing
standards can individually be expensive – outsourcing of
IT to accredited
suppliers such as Macquarie Hosting removes the burden and cost
of ensuring compliance.
9. IT Outsourcing Saves on Downtime
IT infrastructure services have changed
over the years. Reliability, accreditations and accountability have
seen huge changes to the industry which now offers
guaranteed service
levels. Larger Data Centres are more able to identify fix and resolve
issues more quickly with skilled technicians working around the
clock. Service Level Guarantees ensure you infrastructure is in
the best hands saving your business potential downtime. IT Outsourcing
means you no longer have to wait for a hardware vendor or software
support person to solve your issues.
10. Maintaining Business Focus
By removing the expense and resource
energy that IT infrastructure absorbs; businesses are then free
to focus all their activity and resources in the right areas where
the greatest business advantages can be achieved with growing and
managing their business. The task of proactively and continuously
managing the infrastructure layer often frustrates and distracts
application developers from focusing on strategic process improvement.
How much is your current IT Infrastructure costing your company?
- Initial Hardware Investment (number of Servers)
- Annual IT Engineering Staff costs including training
- Software Licences
- 24/7 Engineer Management
- External Contractors
- Data Centre Costs including power and air conditioning
- Insurance Costs
How much does downtime cost your business?
- Hardware Supplier Response for Upgrades or Repairs
- Installation of a new rack
- IT Staff sick or on holidays
- When the system goes down – what is it costing your
business
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