Enterprise.

Why the cloud is right for Enterprise.

Technology evolves at such a pace that sometimes it is difficult for a large enterprise to respond and utilise it effectively and efficiently. With cloud computing technology this changes. Instantly, organisations will have the flexibility, scalability and responsiveness desired to achieve a true competitive advantage.

Your innovation can now be driven through technology, allowing you to achieve goals by using IT for maximum corporate leverage and competitiveness. Cloud computing provides the flexibility and efficiency in your IT infrastructure to support business changes - it is IT for the company's sake.

How cloud technology can improve your performance

IT must create value - connecting data in new ways, giving new insights to improve decisions or provide new technologies to shift the company forward. Ultimately, it should improve the competitiveness of the business.

Enterprise cloud computing has many benefits including: increase reliability, more flexibility, greater control, higher security, access via public and or private networks, more intelligent use of resources, a better use of IT budgets, assurance and certainty.

On top of all of these benefits, cloud computing is also a key way for operators to reduce operating expenditure and deliver competitive advantage. You can selectively outsource your infrastructure and applications to be delivered from a high quality managed environment via private and public networks.

Alternatively, enterprise can focus on establishing an internal private cloud environment to create the same operating efficiencies, cost savings, and agility.

Ultimately, you can make the decision about how much or how little to have on the cloud, improving business performance, rapidly adapting to change and lowering your risk.

Specific enterprise issues addressed by cloud computing

The following are some of the key reasons it makes sense for any enterprise to at least consider cloud computing for some if not all of their IT solutions:

1. Business agility - no longer be constrained by your physical infrastructure. Rapidly establish project and development environments without the traditional long procurement and provisioning cycle.
2. Rapid ROI - Avoid the whopping bills associated with capital expenditure for your IT infrastructure and instead pay only for what you  so that you need today so you can focus on taking advantage of your new found IT freedom and flexibility on the cloud.
3. Total control - Provide the business with the level of control they demand without compromising security. Focus on longer term planning and infrastructure provisioning and growing the business instead of fighting fires and continually playing 'catch-up' with the business requirements.

LC9's role in providing the right solution for you

Still not fully convinced that cloud computing is for your enterprise? LC9 has the skills and more importantly, experience, in building both public and private cloud environments. LC9 can guide you along the journey to the Cloud. We know you want systems that can provide business agility, while minimising cost and also reducing or eliminating vendor lock-in from proprietary stacks. We work with large enterprises to provide:

• Business Case Development - Analysing business needs, building the financial model, defining cloud roadmap and use cases, articulate the vision of cloud computing within the enterprise.
• Technology Strategy and Architecture - Create the longer-term technology roadmap and how to integrate the cloud environment and leverage off existing organisational investment.
• Cloud Design, Build and Implementation - Develop the cloud design, gather the 'nuts and bolts' of the solution and build the cloud.
• Organisational Change Management and Empowerment - One of the most overlooked areas of cloud solution development, being able to assist in transforming organisational culture to ensure the new cloud paradigm is fully embraced.

Whether your enterprise is looking at building your own internal private cloud environment or leveraging off LC9's existing cloud platform (either public or hosted private), we pride ourselves on partnering with your team to build solutions that will differentiate yourselves above your competitors and provide the business agility you seek.

LC9 is one of Australia's only specialist Cloud Computing companies that not only assist enterprises in building your own cloud environments but also have our own cloud platform. The LC9 cloud platform partnership provides you with:

• Using cloud infrastructure that can scale for solutions of all sizes
• Solve specific problems that can be better addressed off premise than in-house
• Offering easily integrate with existing networks
• Customers can be as hands on or hands off as they like
• Easy to use control panels
• SLA backed guarantee