How Does
Cloud Computing Work?
Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet.
A Cloud services platform such as GMX TEC, owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for these application services, while you provision and use what you need via a web application, services or a specific feature.
Advantages and benefits
of Cloud Computing
Trade capital expenditure for operational expenses !
Instead of having to invest heavily in data centers and servers before you know how you’re going to use them, you can only pay when you consume computing resources, and only pay for how much you consume.
Economies of scale
By using cloud computing, you can achieve a lower variable cost than you can get on your own. Because usage from our customers are aggregated in the cloud, providers such as GMX TEC can achieve higher economies of scale which translates into lower pay as you go prices for you.
Increase speed and agility
Cloud computing provides access to numerous technologies while allowing agencies to save time and money, improve operations, and encourage innovation.
Better Collaboration
Improve productivity. Enhance the customer experience and enable business growth. Collaboration offerings that helps drive a positive experience, with one platform for calling, conferencing, video, and sharing.
Why should I move my business to the GMX cloud?
Usage of Cloud Computing
Private cloud and hybrid cloud
Among the many incentives for using cloud, there are two situations where organizations are looking into ways to assess some of the applications they intend to deploy into their environment through the use of a cloud (specifically a public cloud). While in the case of test and development it may be limited in time, adopting a hybrid cloud approach allows for testing application workloads, therefore providing the comfort of an environment without the initial investment that might have been rendered useless should the workload testing fail.
Test and development
This entails securing a budget, setting up your environment through physical assets, significant manpower and time. Then comes the installation and configuration of your platform. All this can often extend the time it takes for a project to be completed and stretch your milestones. With cloud computing, there are now readily available environments tailored for your needs at your fingertips. This often combines, but is not limited to, automated provisioning of physical and virtualized resources.
File storage
Cloud can offer you the possibility of storing your files and accessing, storing and retrieving them from any web-enabled interface.
At any time and place you have high availability, speed, scalability and security for your environment.
In this scenario, organizations
are only paying for the amount of storage they are actually consuming,
and do so without the worries of overseeing the daily maintenance of the storage infrastructure.
Backup
Cloud-based backup, while not being the panacea, is certainly a far cry from what it used to be.
You can now automatically dispatch data to any location across the wire
with the assurance that neither security, availability nor capacity are issues.
FAQ's
Is it less expensive?
When you take into consideration the cost of hardware, power, software licensing, setup, support,
maintenance, downtime, and add the benefit of location flexibility and business continuity, most companies realize a MINIMUM savings of 30% while others greatly exceed that!
In this economy, that is a HUGE benefit!
What is included?
Services are based on the plan you choose.
Our services include full hosted office solutions including Backup, Cloud Docs, as well as managed services and consultancy.
This flexibility allows our clients to move to the cloud at their own pace while maintaining the integrity of their data.
You can even access data stored across multiple cloud providers!
What about speed?
For the most part, services performed in the cloud are faster than on your current network infrastructure. That is because there is no data travelling “across the wire”. All of the computer desktops and applications are stored on the same infrastructure, so access to data is immediate, unlike a local network which often has to send data across the network cables
Do I still need my desktop?
You can access your cloud services from any device.
That includes your current desktop, your home iMac, Windows Phone, Droid.
In fact, our motto is “Anywhere, Any Time, Any Device.”