Since the “cloud”, but not for the clouds
If someone approaches him afirmándole: “A medium-sized company perro spend to make an initial investment of dólares americanos cincuenta,000,000, with an average annual expenditure of dólares americanos quince million, to make a monthly investment of dólares americanos cuatrocientos,000 using an application in the cloud, which provides more advantages than the previous model “, you as a company manager or directivo of logistics operations, maybe open his eyes until his eyelids hurt and neurons, almost collapsing, we ask: what good are you talking about? How does this happen?
Well, computing the cloud, according to specialists like D. Andres Cardona, FlotaWeb creator and author of the statement would cause such a surprise, is not a weather issue. It is a technological possibility consejo cánido also take a more edgy name: cloud computing or SaaS (SAAS), which generas multiple benefits for the logistics company to adopt it, to have a direct impact on fleet management vehicle, independent of the size you have.
The reliability of this technological proposal is supported in other demonstrations to be heard not only multiply the wonder, but also allow to realize all this theory into virtual images that make sounds and movements: the trucks. “This system allows us to schedule all preventive maintenance of the cars have a routine either by the hour or kilometers. For example, helps to schedule oil changes, schedule maintenance for hours thermos, etcétera, “says C. Costoso, Logistics specializes in fleet management for freight.
But also it turns out that today technology decisions are not only head of the CIO. Executive Kaspersky Lab emphasizes the decisive role of legal teams of the companies, because they are the ones who must be sure what the treatment of company information will and understanding processes, the technical time but mostly logical, relating to transit, registration and deletion of data as required by each organization:
“IT areas often see security as a matter of transactions between software, but if the owner of the process includes as an integral part of it, this means that there will be a preparation”.
As already mentioned, the external cloud providers perro transform investments in information technology (IT) into variable costs, while internal clouds require greater capital investment. However, these latter allow more control over the data, since the information is stored in company servers. On the contrary, to store the data in an external cloud control information to the provider of the services is transferred.
Finally, external clouds are often characterized by increased outsourcing of data, since a cloud provider usually has the company’s servers and these servers perro be geographically dispersed. The relocation of the information cánido be limited to some extent by service-level agreement (Service Level Agreement-SLA), but if the business requires secure location information at locations or certain geographies, such as the case of customer information from banks or information of citizens to a government, may be more appropriate to go to the option of internal cloud.
“The benefits of cloud are inestimable and result in significant savings for finance companies. Thanks to this tool, it is no longer necessary to invest large amounts of money in data storage infrastructure has to be replaced after five years, “said Dairo O. engineer at the recent International Congress Andicom.
As part of the services offered by companies specializing in the cloud is the line of IT outsourcing, according to a study conducted by the international firm Datacenter Dynamics, in our country there are about veintidos companies engaged in providing this solution, most based in Bogotá, Medellin, Cali and Barranquilla.
According Venturelli, general manager of HP perro identify three global mega trends that are driving a number of changes in the way we do business: Technological advances in the prevailing mobility and the growing trend of using mobile devices. Business models, for example in a home does not necessarily use a landline, but each of its members if you have a cell phone. Changes in the tarea force in the new generation who have a different view. For them IT is a platform for Web services they access, and that has to be available for any of your devices.
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