Why it makes sense?

Is your company facing significant pains dealing with IT requirements. Skilled engineers with specialized expertise are in short supply, making it difficult to provide around-the-clock support for your critical systems. In today’s tight money markets, capital budgets are squeezed, with funding eliminated for key projects required to grow your business. Your existing IT staff is strapped with day-to-day tactical tasks simply to keep systems online, rather than working to research and deliver on projects that accelerate strategic objectives.

The Yankee Group, a leading technology research firm, has noted a growing trend in how small- to medium-size businesses (SMBs) pay for and manage their information technology – everything from email to Web sites and applications. Instead of buying hardware and software, and hiring technology employees or contractors on a “do-it-yourself” basis, SMBs are increasingly outsourcing IT infrastructure to IT hosting specialists. (Reference 1).

By leasing servers offsite at Nuvola’s datacenter for a monthly fee — and gaining access to experts and admin services from Nuvola Technologies — SMBs realize significant savings on IT costs compared with purchasing infrastructure and hiring specialized staff. For example, comparing total costs over three years between buying and maintaining IT infrastructure in-house or on-premise versus leasing from an IT hosting provider like Nuvola Technologies, analyst firm Frost & Sullivan has estimated that a small business of less than 100 employees can cut its IT infrastructure costs by up to 75 percent. (Reference 2).

References:
1. “Leveraging Capex-Free Managed Hosting,” Gary Chen, Yankee Group, 2008.
2. “SMBs Can Cut IT Costs by More Than 75% by subscribing to Hosted IT Infrastructure Services,“ Michael Suby, Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan,2006.