The challenge in business is to provide customers with the resources they need, when they need it.
This is according to Rajan Padayachee, the vice-president of ICT operations at T-Systems SA, who says businesses should deliver solutions that offer scalability and agility. These solutions should be built on a service and capacity-based model - use what you need, pay for what you use,” he says.
To address this challenge, T-Systems SA will enter the cloud computing market with the introduction of its dynamic IT services offering, during the second quarter of this year.
“This cloud computing solution will be privately hosted for both local and international customers,” the company revealed.
According to Padayachee, a cloud strategy and an open, flexible cloud infrastructure is the answer to many business problems. “It delivers IT resources on demand and customers no longer have to invest in infrastructure and applications and pay only for what they actually use.”
Cloudtechnology provides flexibility, rapid provision of services, secure environment, governance and cost savings. Businesses nowadays don't need to invest in their ICT infrastructure, he points out.
“Enterprises today need to pack an increasing number of activities into a short period of time, and respond instantly to new market demands,” Padayachee adds.
Cloud computing dynamically allocates business IT resources across business units, so that services can be deployed quickly and scaled out to meet business needs whenever they occur, he explains.
The head of sales, major accounts and strategy at T-Systems SA, Gert Schoonbee, says the introduction of cloud computing in the country is part of the company's strategy to offer globally-situated ICT infrastructure and data centre services to provide this hosted private cloud solution to both local and international customers.
“With this offering we will be able to deliver automation, controls and management functionality, which includes a billing solution that enables our clients to stay on top of their expenditure as it is calculated on a daily usage model. You therefore use what you need and pay for what you use in a completely transparent process,” he says.
The use of this resource can be tracked and billed back to each business unit, he adds. With private cloud you get many of the benefits of (public) cloud computing with the additional control and customisation associated with using resources that are dedicated to your organisation.
According to Schoonbee, many of T-Systems' current customers qualify to be migrated to the cloud computing platform. “This means that our customers can immediately start utilising the dynamic services solution, should they migrate to the dynamic IT platform.
Businesses using cloud computing can cut their IT costs by up to 25%, according to a study by consultancy AT Kearney. It says many businesses are facing the challenge of reducing costs and they look to technologies like cloud computing to achieve such.
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