Enhance Operational Efficiency with Cloud Infrastructure Services

‘Managed hosting services’ are gaining momentum worldwide because of the high scope of scalability of

company operations. Such a service can also offer power, control and flexibility that will protect a company’s

valuable investments and boost their operational efficiencies.

One of the most popular managed hosting services is the cloud infrastructure service. With cloud infrastructure

services, companies can now instantly deploy new servers with zero capital expenditure on hardware and

software.

Highlights of cloud infrastructure services:

1. IT teams can now provision new server, storage and network infrastructures from a secure pool of IT

infrastructure, just as if it were a service or a utility.

2. Teams can deploy servers for new applications or to meet increased user traffic.

3. This service helps to create, scale and modify an unlimited number of server configurations within minutes.

4. This service helps to reduce time-to-market and energy costs — close to 60% or 70% per month for a mid-

sized company.

5. These services also allow companies to create servers on demand for web applications and centrally manage

the company’s virtual data center infrastructure in real time. This in turn helps to speed up the overall

development and provisioning process as well.

6. There is substantial reduction in the costs of maintaining hardware, and applications can be hosted in an

Internet-accessible virtual environment that is ready to scale instantly.

Some of the functionalities that companies should look for in cloud computing providers are:

1. Highly available multi-tenant environment

2. On demand computing and storage

3. Self-provisioning of servers

4. Pay-as-you-use service

5. Scale servers and storage in real time

6. SLAs backed by services credits

7. Secure payment gateway for online payments

Above all, companies looking for cloud infrastructure services should choose managed service providers who also

provide other hosting services such as data center services, disaster recovery services, application hosting

services, etc.

Other links: Data centers in India, Dedicated servers in India