bCloud Computing - BlueBridge Networks

What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.

What does bCloud offer me?
bCloud offers reduced cost and increased agility with enterprise grade infrastructure and solutions. Give your business a premium, scalable utility solution to make you more competitive. Organizations also benefit by allowing their valuable IT personnel to focus on the applications that support the business and their customers rather than the necessary infrastructure. Expert engineers will help you engineer a self-service, custom shared package solution with elastic scaling and use-based pricing that is accessible via the internet.

What do you gain from cloud computing?
Cloud computing provides IT with the ability to respond to business needs. IT innovation fuels greater business agility, and organizations can leverage the cloud's ever-expandable, self-serviced and always-available infrastructure to speed the delivery and reliability of new and existing applications. What's more, the efficiency of the cloud can free up funds for service-led innovation.

The pooling of resources allows a private infrastructure or service provider to realize a cost savings from reduction of physical assets like server, storage, and network infrastructure required to deliver applications or services. Reduced infrastructure can lead to reduced power consumption and management costs.

Cloud platforms offer policy-driven self-service characteristics that allow a private infrastructure or service provider to introduce levels of automation that reduce operational costs in delivering IT services, while also allowing standardization, security, and compliance to be more easily implemented and reported on. Cloud consumers, in this scenario, also realize the benefit of obtaining their cloud resources on demand and preventing traditional provisioning delays.

The Core Advantages
The core advantages of cloud computing are the economics of choice and the speed of innovation. It also drives down maintenance and management costs, allowing businesses to redirect saved funds into innovation-centered projects. By allowing IT organizations to anticipate and respond to business needs more quickly and efficiently, cloud computing creates competitive advantage.

How do I justify cloud?
While cost advantages are an immediate driver for IT organizations to consider cloud, there are far bigger advantages. Increased business agility improves time to market, customer responsiveness and operational efficiency. In fact, our survey found that 75% of the respondents consider business agility as the top driver. Incorporate these benefits when building your business case and educate your key stakeholders and management.

That said, IT and business executives are clearly succeeding in making the case for cloud. According to survey respondents, 26% of IT budgets have been allocated to cloud computing in the next 12 months.