The SMB Dilemma: VMware vSphere or Public Cloud

Cloud computing as a technology has rapidly spread its wings far and wide, with most organizations recognizing it as a potent weapon against competition. Providing the maximum value to customers is the top agenda along with cutting costs. Enterprises are now beginning to understand the difference between private, public and hybrid clouds. The only question is which model will suit their business requirements and be the most cost effective and efficient solution. In this two part series, we first discuss the advantages of public cloud over private deployments in a small to medium business environment.

IT admin efficiency: Using the public cloud for managing applications frees up the time of IT administrators so that they concentrate their energies on managing internal business applications, instead of trying to juggle between infrastructure management and applications.

Security and availability concerns: An SMB generally requires the same level of security and availability as any other business organization. However, it is expensive to achieve these goals since they require a redundant server, storage and network infrastructure as well as stringent policies for user access. Public cloud providers have resilient IT infrastructures, ideal for SMB needs.

Data center management: Small and medium enterprises do not possess the requisite infrastructure and resources to house a data center. Constraints of space, cost and infrastructure don't let these business owners make the most of their on-premise data center operations. Experts offering such services on the public cloud is the best alternative for SMEs. They also offer data recovery and backup services, which certainly are out of reach for small enterprises to create and maintain in-house.

Our next part will discuss the advantages of an in-house virtualization set up for SMEs and how they can benefit from the same.

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