Re: [Hampshire] Due Diligence of Service Providers

Imran Chaudhry wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I think I'm getting old, since I read this thread with a growing sense of
>> horror. If you outsource the total gamut of your IT infrastructure in a
>> SaaS sense (fancy name for cloud-space), are you really saving in the long
>> run?
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> As with anything, there are caveats and SaaS isn't appropriate for all
> scenario's - but for a business of a certain type and size then I
> think it makes a whole load of sense.

For a number of businesses IT is not business critical, so reducing the admin
and hardware spend can make a lot of sense.

As a dev business working with customers that tend to have business critical IT
requirements I would be wary of cloud sourcing unless the risks were clear and
understood.

Jacqui