Cloud computing is fascinating because most only have the vaguest notion of how it works, what it actually is and how it can help their business – although most have realized that it’s the next logical and necessary step. In its simplest form, cloud computing is a shared pools of computer system resources which are highly configurable, rapidly provisioned and easily managed using the Internet. So how will moving to a cloud environment help your business? There are endless ways cloud computing has impacted industries and businesses for the better, including:
- The banking sector performs a majority of its online functions using cloud technology.
- For every 600 smartphones or 120 tablets a new cloud server is added.
- Cloud computing is X40 as cost effective for SMBs as running a traditional IT infrastructure.
- 94% of SMBs find additional untapped security benefits after moving to a cloud environment.
- 80% of businesses report improved IT operations within the first 6 months of migrating to the cloud.
- 30% of global service-based companies have migrated a majority of their ERP applications to the cloud as of EOY 2018.
- Investment in cloud computing technology is projected to reach $270 billion by 2020.
- Surveys project that by year 2020 over 40 Zettabytes of data will be stored in the cloud.
- 64% of organizations have reduced electricity cost since moving to the cloud.
- 70% of businesses utilizing cost-saving cloud technology have been able to reinvest funds into the business.
So how does this look in a real world situation?
Toshiba TEC Singapore Pte Ltd. designs, builds and services world-class turnkey ODM/OEM solutions for Fortune 500 companies worldwide and best in class small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the transport & logistics, retail, banking and healthcare industries.
In 2017 Toshiba approached Sangfor Technologies about virtualizing their traditional infrastructure of 15 servers and several Hyper-V VMs running in the data center. A majority of the internal applications were hosted by the physical servers and these servers had been running for over 5 years with occasional hardware failure issues. Because there was no HA for those physical servers and Hyper-V VMs, these failures were a huge issue – sometimes taking hours to recover from hardware failure.
Sangfor proposed their HCI solution to help Toshiba consolidate all the existing physical servers with only 2 units of 2U aServer appliances, dramatically simplifying daily O&M. With compute virtualization aSV and storage virtualization aSAN, Toshiba was able to migrate all the physical servers and Hyper-V virtual machines to the Sangfor HCI platform and ensure business reliability with high availability. Sangfor's HCI web-based management console simplifies all IT processes, providing unified single-pane-of-glass management over all the resources on HCI to simplify operations and reduce recovery time in the event of a failure.
Unlike traditional cloud solutions, Sangfor Enterprise Cloud built on HCI is simplified and flexible, enabling users to quickly build business-driven cloud computing data centers using private, hybrid or industrial cloud. Users benefit by using the IT resource pool, IT as a Service and automated IT O&M, making it easy for key business to migrate to the cloud.
For more information about cloud computing solutions that will enhance your every business move, visit the Sangfor Technologies website.
*Source:
https://socialnewsdaily.com/67042/10-surprising-facts-about-cloud-computing/
https://blogs.systweak.com/2017/02/36-fascinating-facts-about-cloud-computing/
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About Sangfor
Founded in 2000 and a publicly traded company as of 2018 (SANGFOR STOCK CODE: 300454 (CH)) Sangfor Technologies is the global leading vendor of IT infrastructure solutions specializing in Cloud Computing and Network Security.
