The business case for managed hosting
Over the many years that the staff at C24 have been involved with hosting, the main questions that clients have when evaluating their own needs are:
Can another organisation really host our systems?
Will we lose the quality of service that we have with our on premise systems?
Who do we choose?
There are many hosting companies in the UK, all who say and offer very similar things, however in order for you to ask the correct questions and put some perspective on hosting C24 have put together a list of questions that you should look at to help you decide whether hosting part or all of your IT needs is something you should consider.
Environmental
Do you need to reduce your carbon footprint?
Has your business got issues with the level of energy it is consuming?
Does your organisation have a commitment to greater recycling?
Costs
Do you need to reduce your capital expenditure on hardware?
Does your organisation need to reduce escalating energy costs?
Is your organisation looking at IT staff consolidation?
Is there a desire to move from capex to opex?
Legislation
Have you a need to store secure company information?
Do you have increasingly larger requirements for storage capacity?
Do you have a need for guaranteed back-up and recovery systems?
Accessibility
Do you need to provide customers and suppliers with secure access to information?
Do you need to support remote working?
Do you need to reduce the system maintenance time?
Do you need out of hours working?
System Applications
Do you have performance requirements for a business critical application?
Have you licensing issues?
Have you have a high dependency on email availability?
Incompatibility issues for core businesses application?
If your answer is Yes to a number of the above questions please contact C24
on 0121 5504 569.
