Utility Computing
As a managed services provider, ACS is well-placed to assist clients with the creation and day-to-day operation of a utility infrastructure, whether hosted or located in your own data centre.
For most organisations, infrastructure management is a challenge. Decentralised systems and a proliferation of discrete servers make it easy to test application coexistence but not to reduce the operational costs of hardware, data centre space, power and cooling for a growing infrastructure.
The drive for competitive advantage, especially for web services where days or hours can mean a loss of market share, is a strong commercial influence and puts added pressure on your internal IT teams to deliver services, applications and supporting infrastructure in ever-shorter timeframes.
Whether you are looking to shift expenditure from capital to operational or simply reduce overall spend, utility computing allows you to more closely associate cost with actual usage, reducing waste and improving ROI. ACS offers the following utility computing options:
- Pay as you grow
This is a common interpretation of utility computing. ACS will implement an agreed infrastructure stack which will provide you with flexible capacity as required so that you only pay for what you use, as you need it. - Phased deployment
ACS takes time to understand your planned growth strategy and deploys sufficient infrastructure to meet your needs against a pre-agreed charging model, so costs are predictable and known well in advance. - Transaction charging
Utility computing allows you to relate and assign a cost to a specific business transaction. As long as it can be measured, ACS is able to identify a per-transaction charge, which depending on the nature of your operations could be the volume of inbound calls to your sales or customer services teams or the number of shopping transactions on a retail site.
KEY BENEFITS
- Utility computing allows you to free up capital expenditure
- Enable the rapid deployment of applications and services through the immediate availability of the underlying infrastructure
- Pay for what you use as you need it
- Understand your costs and relate these closely to the success of your business
To find out more about how ACS can help support your organisation, why not arrange for one of our technical specialists to give you a call - simply complete the form to the right and we’ll be in touch at your convenience.
