In the past, starting a business required not only building your own data center, but also providing the IT infrastructure. Now we live in the grand age of cloud services like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Luckily, they can all provide this service for you.
For a business just starting out, it’s easy to join the cloud. But businesses that already have an IT infrastructure are often stuck. Now, however, there are hybrid clouds that allow established organizations the ability to utilize cloud services while maintaining their on-premises platforms.
One such business embracing the hybrid cloud is Fitness First, a health club/gym founded in the United Kingdom. The gym was facing struggles in its flexibility of managing costs. This led leaders to make changes at the IT level to balance out these expenses. They started by looking for a hybrid cloud provide, eventually settling on Microsoft cloud computing solutions.
Now they can change the services they use as their demand increases or decreases – whether day-to-day or with the seasons.