No hidden surprises
Any organisation investigating cloud computing soon has to ask the question, “How much does it cost?” At first glance, cloud solutions from companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft can appear very attractive with costs highlighted such as $0.05 or $0.10 per minute compute time.
However, once you start to multiply the costs for 24 x 7 x 365 operation those costs start to balloon. But there’s more, such services often reflect the requirements for low-end systems no more powerful than a desktop computer, whereas advanced applications require significantly more computer power.
But there’s even more. Costs such as $0.05 or $0.10 per minute compute time don’t even include associated costs to run a sophisticated aged care application such as disk storage costs and most importantly inbound and outbound network traffic. In other words, every single access to an application such as Platinum5 generates network traffic, and with vendors such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft, you are charged for every single access.
Hence, when you add up ALL of the costs from most vendors, the costs can be much higher than expected.
However, with LeecareCloud.com, there are no hidden costs. We scope your requirements and provide a solution that includes ALL of the costs, with no hidden or unexpected gotchas. You have a fixed monthly cost that provides you with total transparency of your costs.
A full service solution – not just space in the cloud
Another important factor with LeecareCloud.com is that it doesn’t just include hosting of your Platinum5 system, such as you would get as standard with Amazon, Google or Microsoft.
With LeecareCloud.com you get a complete managed solution that essentially provides you with an IT shop in a box. All aspects of keeping your LeecareCloud.com system is taken care of by our IT team 24 x 7 x 365.
Special thanks to David Cartwright who prepared this post.
