IT budgets pointing to the cloud, expansion

“Computerworld – When debt collection agency Deca Financial Services LLC was formed last year it had two IT paths: It could buy its own servers, software licenses, and hire an administrator, at a total of cost of about $700,000, or it could turn to a cloud provider with first year costs of about $60,000.

At first, James Hefty, director of operations at the Fishers, Ind.-based company, didn’t believe a cloud provider was a possible option. It had financial compliance rules and concerns such as a client audit.

But the provider, in this case BlueLock LLC in nearby Indianapolis, said it could meet all the security rules, service levels and disaster recovery needs. “We very quickly realized with a little bit of analysis that everyone benefits from it,” Hefty said.

Deca has its own network, router and firewall and server in an Hewlett-Packard blade system and VMware environment.”

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