Cloud Computing

Our Overview to Cloud Computing

The “cloud” is a term that can be interpreted as referring to the Internet. Cloud computing is essentially Internet-based computing with shared servers providing data, software and resources to computers and other devices within the group. Cloud computing services can be likened to the electricity grid, in that they turn IT into a utility.

Private cloud computing from The Internet Group provides greater operational efficiency and helps your business to maximise its investment in IT. With almost unlimited processing and storage capabilities, the cloud can grow as your business grows, making your IT investment supremely flexible and cost effective.

Cloud computing can be split into three major service areas:

1. Software as a Service (SaaS): Applications are hosted within The Internet Group’s own infrastructure and made available to users within your organisation through the web. Anything from customer relationship management to email can be hosted and used via the SaaS model.


2. Platform as a Service (PaaS): This provides a development and hosting environment where software, databases and other critical architecture can be stored.


3. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Administrators and developers use this model to roll out the resources needed to run operating systems and applications.

The Internet Group’s approach to cloud computing allows you to harness the power of virtualisation at the level most appropriate for your organisation’s size, structure and growth ambitions. At all stages, our IT outsourcing and IT management teams follow a consultative approach married with ITIL and SDI best practice frameworks.

Our Approach to Cloud Computing

The Internet Group offer a range of private "cloud" and "hybrid cloud" solutions. These are flexible and created to meet the individual and unique requirements of your business.

We recognise that one size doesn't fit all, which is why we tailor our offerings around your processes and procedures. We offer solutions that range from a fully hosted private cloud environment to offsite disaster recovery servers and online cloud backups.

There are many instances in which cloud computing may be relevant to your business. For example, if you would like to increase your IT capacity or add new capabilities ad-hoc, in time for special events. You may want to give staff access to the same software across a number of different locations without physically installing the package on every machine. Or, it may be that you a have a single business function to fulfil such as performing payroll tax calculations. Whatever your reasons for considering cloud computing, our solution is guaranteed to work in harmony with your business.

Our approach is:

• Consultative: We won’t suggest a solution before taking the time to analyse and plan your current IT needs and existing resources. We’ll also conduct stakeholder interviews to help us create a usable system that meets each individual’s unique IT needs.


• Design and Planning: We don’t advocate a one size fits all approach. Our design and planning service means your new virtual environment is a best fit now, and in the future.


• Virtualisation Sizing and Capacity Planning – Capacity Planning to ensure best fit solution is put into place


• Service Transition and Operation: We’ll get your private cloud up and running and help your users make the most out of new shared resources. When the cloud is operational, problem management, an IT service desk and plain English reporting will help to keep it that way.

For further information about how we can help you maximise the possibilities of cloud computing, click on one of the links below.

The Advantages of Cloud Computing for Your Business

Cloud computing is highly cost-effective compared to investing huge capital expenditure into your own hosting infrastructure. The Internet Group hosts services for a range of companies on one server, allowing us to pass the savings onto you and for you to only pay for the services that you actually use.

Cloud computing is quick to set up, perfect if you’re in a rush to start reaping the benefits of virtualisation and a shared virtual environment. Even the most complicated database and software cloud computing solutions allow you to avoid the stages of capital expenditure and hardware procurement that are associated with alternative solutions. The most basic services, meanwhile, are frequently immediately available to use.

By adopting cloud computing services from The Internet Group, your company can also keep up to date with the latest available software, benefiting from new features as soon as their respective providers make them available.

A private cloud is ideal for those firms that find their IT requirements periodically spiking or that are rapidly expanding. Clouds are designed to deal with drastic and sudden changes in workload.

Cloud computing systems are also ideal for the modern, mobile workforce, given that they are designed to be accessed from a distance – making for greater productivity on the part of all of your employees whether they are office bound, home based or travel overseas frequently.

Overview of Cloud Computing Advantages

• Using an IT outsourcing service to provide a cloud is much more cost-effective than investing in your own infrastructure


• Fast, both to use and to set up


• Frequently and easily updated, due to online access


• Scalable for fast-growing companies or those whose requirements vary over the course of the year


• Designed to be accessed at a distance, making it highly suitable for the increasingly mobile, modern workforce.

Why Us?

The Internet Group combines a focus on constant operational excellence with a team of the most highly skilled and knowledgeable cloud computing engineers in the industry. We aim to build excellent long-term working relationships, both with our clients and our various cloud computing partners.

Designing solutions that fit around your requirements and scaling to allow for further growth, we offer strategic consultation, end to end implementation management and London-based IT support for the lifetime of your project.

All of our IT managed services and based on a strict performance without fail ethos. Working to internationally recognised ITIL and SDI best practice guidelines, we will manage your virtualisation project as if it were our own.

If you would like to find out more about our cloud computing services, please contact a member of our team on +44 (0)800 007 5797 or click the link below.