Scalability
One challenge is to ensure that your ICT infrastructure is appropriate to the applications used and the number of staff you have. CloudPC means that when staff numbers grow or shrink one phone call is all it takes to re-align the infrastructure required. This eliminates the need for you to buy more capacity than you need 'just in case' and also means you don't pay for infrastructure you are not using.
Risk Mitigation
The servers at the heart of CloudPC are housed in a secure data centre with built in redundancy for aspects such as power supplies, air-con and security. To achieve these facilities on your own premises involves significant cost and management effort. CloudPC provides this to you at no extra charge. Increasingly executives are being challenged as to what would happen to the business if we lost our ICT functionality - CloudPC dramatically reduces this risk as staff can work from anywhere there is Internet access. All data is automatically backed up, relieving staff of having to remember to do it individually.
Applications, Viruses and Spam
These are either very annoying or downright malicious and substantial expense is incurred in buying and maintaining the appropriate tools to eliminate these. CloudPC provides the most comprehensive mechanisms available to relieve you of this aspect of keeping your business running. The same concept applies to common application software such as the popular Office Suites, email or browser. These are automatically upgraded on the server and immediately all staff can enjoy the new functionality when they log on next time. This also has the effect of ensuring you are using legal copies of such software.
Predictability
The business model of CloudPC allows you to precisely determine the cost of providing ICT infrastructure to your employees - often on a 'per user per month' basis. This means you can confidently predict what your ICT costs will be both now and in the future depending on the numbers of staff. There are no hidden surprises.
Reduce the cost of your infrastructure
One of the constant headaches for management is budgeting for the inevitable 'hardware' refresh - often needed every 3 or 4 years. CloudPC allows you to extend the life of your desktops because the 'thin client' technology used by SoNET means they are never stressed - it's the servers doing the work and running the applications.
Support
Today there are often separate contracts with different suppliers such as for productivity software maintenance, servers management, laptops and desktops support and communications management - requiring different numbers to be called in the event of 'issues'. Often the end-user has no idea of where the problem is - they just want things to be fixed with no 'finger pointing' between various suppliers of components that make up the total solution. With CloudPC there is ONE phone number to call and the problem is resolved irrespective of where it lies. The 24/7 service desk at SoNET has strict service levels to attain and regular reports are provided to customers so that performance can be measured.