Our top reasons to set yourself on the road to IT freedom
1. Save money
Business cloud computing reduces your capital spend and helps you to focus your budget where it’s most effective. Because you only pay for what you use, your costs are driven by your business needs, leaving you free to stop firefighting and deliver real performance and cost benefits.
2. Get flexible
Is your business evolving? Changing your IT infrastructure? With Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the cloud there are no servers to buy, no downtime to schedule, no data centre space to find – the resources you need are there already. And changes can be live in hours, not weeks.
When you use Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) you can scale and reconfigure your IT setup according to your changing needs. Expecting a seasonal surge in traffic? Use our simple online portal to add capacity and scale back down again when things calm down.
You pay as you go, with pre-agreed credit limits, and costs are calculated by the hour.
3. Take control of your IT
Maintain control and save costs, while benefiting from peace of mind thanks to independently audited security processes and standards. We’ll help you take a staged approach to the cloud – and our Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC) gives you comprehensive control over your services.
4. Develop IT faster
Cut rollout times from weeks to hours. Make changes and see them live in as little as 90 minutes, with self-service provisioning through a simple online portal. And because you’re only paying for what you need, when you need it, you can afford to do all the testing you need.
5. Stay ahead of the technology curve
With cloud services from Virgin Media Business, you don’t have to worry about refreshing out of date capital equipment. Maintenance and upgrade costs are part of a single monthly fee, so your spend is predictable and manageable.
6. Improve IT security
Is the cloud secure? In fact it couldn’t be more secure than your in-house IT. Virgin Media Business is one of only two UK network providers with Public Services Network (PSN) accreditation, and our network passes the strictest security standards.
The data centres we use are ISO 27001 and SAS70 accredited, so you know we’re taking security and availability seriously. And we build even higher levels of security on bespoke services – so talk to us about what you need. In short – we’ve got it covered.
7. Turbocharge your Web applications
When response times for a Web application reach 6 seconds, a third of users go elsewhere. So you need to know that your cloud-hosted applications are backed by serious, heavy-duty connectivity.
At Virgin Media Business our network is second only in size to BT’s, and nine times larger than the next in line – and nobody else has a nationwide fibre network that can connect to 85% of UK businesses to provide fast and reliable services.
8. Cut continuity costs
Using an off-site cloud solution for business continuity could cut your annual costs by 85% – while actually increasing resilience and reducing the time it takes to get systems back up.
With VPDC, you can scale up your capacity as you need to, without buying new equipment or revising your policies for handling data.
9. Cut your company carbon
Cloud computing can cut carbon emissions by 30-90% for major business applications right now – and the savings are likely to be even bigger in the future.
Because equipment can be used less wastefully when it’s managed in a data centre, moving to cloud can get you the double benefit of more performance for less energy – and it’s hard to argue with that. In fact, the same factors that help cloud to save you money also help to lower your organisation’s environmental impact.
