2011 was the year of the cloud, the year it went mainstream and the cost benefits, flexibility and operational efficiencies of cloud services such as hosted e-mail were widely accepted as the path to improved IT efficiency.
As we begin 2012, the growth forecasts continue to look rosy. Morgan Stanley’s Alphawise global survey suggests that cloud workloads will continue to grow at 50% over the next three years. As the breadth and depth of cloud adoption expands, moving out from hosted exchange to more complex cloud offerings, more and more CIOs will be forced to fundamentally redesign their IT strategies to exploit the benefits of the cloud.
Letting the cloud take centre stage can seem a daunting prospect for IT consultants. Recommending that a client moves to hosted e-mail can seem counter-intuitive at first but, in fact, all these business moving to the cloud actually creates growth potential for forward looking IT consultants.
Any change of strategy relies on advice and direction and SMEs will be looking for just that from the IT consultants they know and trust. Provided that there is a cost effective way for IT consultants to recommend cloud products such as Hosted Exchange 2010, a route that delivers mutual benefits to all concerned, then a move to the cloud need not mean an end to the long standing relationship between an IT consultant and their clients.
By embracing the cloud, a consultant will improve their chance of retaining client accounts and ensure that they remain at the heart of IT decision making. Of course, such advice can’t be given away free, which is why the Giacom resellers network was built – to help IT consultants share in the rewards of cloud computing.
The Giacom resellers network is the largest and most successful network in the UK and offers a partnership which keeps a consultant in control of their clients whilst helping everyone to benefit from the Giacom ThinkCloud Platform. There are no long term contracts, no upfront costs and no hidden catches to tie you in. You simply continue doing what you do best – giving clients reliable and informed IT advice – and Giacom rewards you for the clients that are active on your account at the end of each month.
The benefits of the resellers network are much like the advantages of the cloud itself… more flexibility to work in different, more lucrative ways; pay as you go billing instead of lengthy contracts and enhanced operational efficiency for all concerned. Put like that, what’s not to like? So here’s to another year of exceptional growth in cloud computing.
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