Cloud gives businesses and users the ability to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. The results can have dramatic effects on business profitability. Instead of significant capital expenditure upfront, which can have a negative impact on cash flow, the business model shifts to a monthly operational expenditure model, not only working out cheaper, but smoothing cash flow too. Efficiencies are further improved through multiple-user provisioning, essentially portioning out services and storage where they are needed most.
Cloud gives businesses and users the ability to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software.
CBS Africa offers consulting services to help manage this change in business operations to a predominantly cloud-based environment and the resultant shifts in the revenue flow. Changing one’s business model to incorporate a new technology can be a dramatic shift and CBS Africa wants to help put in place procedures and practices to minimise the negative effects and maximise the positive ones.
End-user spending on public cloud services is likely to hit a global figure of $180 billion by 2015