Star Storage – solver partner at Agora’s Cloud Computing event

Star Storage will be participating as a Silver partner during the Cloud Computing event, organized by Agora on April 21st, 2011 at Intercontinental Hotel, Rapsodia Hall, Bucharest.
Little by little, there is a unanimity generated in taking into consideration the certain advantages of cloud computing from a business environment technologies point of view. One of the most important is the one connected to the capital expenses of the companies that, instead of facing the amortization and the depreciation of the estimated life cycle of equipment, prefer to pay a monthly or annual fee for service contracts.

The direct consequence of this preference is the second advantage. Through cloud computing, which is actually hardware, software and networking outsourcing, companies manage to have substantial savings in their IT budgets by eliminating the purchase of equipment and software licenses.

Another great advantage comes from a deep human characteristic: comfort. Basically, more and more companies prefer to rely more on service providers to achieve and maintain IT applications than to confront the costs of building and updating an application that had been customized according to their requirements.

Through the local presence of the world’s leading cloud computing providers, Romania has a great chance to be one of the first countries to widely adopt the latest technological solutions. The Agora conference dedicated to cloud computing will aim exactly to make you aware of the most viable solutions in this field, in order to help you make important decisions in terms of technology and, as a consequence, in terms of the future of the business you run.During this event, Radu Isaia, Presales Director, Infrastructure Solutions & Data Center Services, at Star Storage, will talk about StarVault – more than “just another Data Center”!

Based on an overall experience of more than 10 years in complex storage solutions, virtualization and data security and protection and also on the Tier 3 Data Center, we offer our customers much more than simple hosting services. We permanently invest in the latest technologies and we constantly test concepts in order to deliver real added value services to our customers.

More and more companies become aware of the IT department’s importance in the organization. A normal consequence of this awareness is the appropriate resource allocation, both from an infrastructure and from a qualified human resources perspective, which is actually hard to achieve internally in the conditions of the current economic environment. Moreover, if we consider that IT is not a “core business” activity for most of the organizations, moving infrastructure and applications in Cloud in the Star Storage Data Center offers real benefits and enables companies to focus on their core business and on their customers’ satisfaction.

Whether it’s Cloud Storage, Cloud Backup or Infrastructure as a Service, services can be made available very quickly and expanded as necessary, depending on the evolution of each company; therefore, each customer pays exactly what it needs and only if the services are delivered to the quality level specified in the SLA. Organizations benefit, therefore, of a competitive advantage that should not be neglected, by the release of the burden of infrastructure and IT applications management and the directing of internal resources to the generating income activities.