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Cloud Computing is re-shaping the way IT is provisioned for businesses. However Cloud Computing is not just about outsourcing your IT Infrastructure, or storing your information "somewhere" in the internet...

Virtualisation effectively helps advance Cloud orientated computing. Why?
By implementing a Virtualisation Solution into your environment you are effectively making the shift into the Cloud Computing world.

Cloud computing provides a vastly more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective way for IT to meet escalating business needs - and this "Cloud" can be implemented within your own environment for you to manage, or provisioned on a ready made infrastructure that has the capacity to grow on your demand.

VMware's Virtualisation solutions enable businesses to begin making the move to a cloud based infrastructure. VMware has a solid foundation with a unique ability to run robust and resilient cloud based applications to your users.

However - to ensure your company retains competitive advantage, your cloud infrastructure must be flexible and tailored to meet your individual needs. That could mean a cloud that’s internal and private, one that leverages external services, or a hybrid cloud that combines both.

Internal to your organisation - a private cloud enables your business and your users an internal secure computing environment with complete flexibility. You are in control but must recognise the importance of the design and not underestimate the investment needed to manage, protect and grow to meet changing business needs.

The public cloud is available to all - and ready now. Large organisations (including Google and Microsoft) offer businesses and consumers "cloud" computing for storage, applications and backup. The risk in this scenario will always remain - security and lack of control.

There are many benefits in combining your "Private Cloud" with an external infrastructure provided by a trusted partner. You can reduce cost by sharing an internal and external resources. You can bridge skills gaps in management, backup and recovery and you can off load tasks like backup to save you time and heartache.

Basic have invested in virtualisation in order to provide our customers the ability to share our resources. Our solutions can offer a fully managed cloud service where we host your virtual machines, or just simply be a target for your backups or archive data.

Our aim is to offer the "Hybrid Cloud" - giving our customers the opportunity of combining their "private cloud" solutions with a trusted external partner.