Cost cutting from the cloud
Géza Ragoncsa, T-Systems Hungary Plc.’s.
Chief Officer responsible for info-communication solutions, gave us an
interview on the reliability and popularity of cloud services and the most
important features of the company‘s solutions.
What is
your experience with the current status of corporate cloud services in Hungary
in comparison to neighboring countries?
Unfortunately I have to tell that we lag behind: based on Gartner’s Y2014 IT
Service Line and Cloud Forecast database we prepared a report showing that
Hungarian clients spend only 1.3% of their total IT service and software
expenditures on public cloud services. The same indicator is 3.9% in Eastern
Europe.
As the
total IT outsourcing market is stronger in Hungary than in the regional
countries the low Hungarian figure must be attributable to the lack of trust
towards cloud services.
What is the root cause
of this distrust?
Unfortunately it is hard to address ungrounded concerns, however, now we can
see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last year we made a survey with the
involvement of almost 400 companies and when we asked them to point out the
biggest advantage of cloud services 45% of the respondents said that it was
higher reliability and availability. Lower investment costs were only placed
second among upside factors. Although many companies are still concerned about
the security risks of cloud solutions as the number of users increases there
are less and less skeptical voices.
Once we talk about
cost-cutting: what is the order of magnitude of potential cost reduction in the
case of medium or big enterprises?
It is hard to tell
concrete figures as all companies are different. However, we can say that
significant savings can be achieved at companies where IT plays an important
role, e.g. in the field of hardware, data center infrastructure and human
resources too. Let us not forget that cloud services can be used without
investment.
How can you convince
potential medium and big enterprise clients to use your solutions?
Drawing on its
extensive portfolio, T-Systems Hungary offers a comprehensive scope of services
to such companies, including underlying infrastructure services, communication
and collaboration solutions, different horizontal, industrial and business
applications. We cooperate with the largest international manufacturers to thus
provide state-of-the-art cloud solutions to our partners. This makes our
clients’ life easier because this way they only have to contract with a single
supplier with which they can agree on the necessary level of expert support and
uniform billing. The quality of our work is supported by our long term
experience.
How much
does it cost to update T-Systems Hungary’s cloud solutions?
Nothing. The most
sophisticated solutions can be provided to our customers without any need for
investment on their behalf, always customized to their specific demand and in
flexible schemes, which guarantees growing medium enterprises to use an ICT
background and always up-to-date infrastructure not unlike those used by large
enterprises, pointed out Géza Ragoncsa.
Would you
please elaborate the issue of security in more details?
I think
it is an important telltale sign that our solutions’ firm basis is the
T-Systems Cloud & Data Center which is not only the biggest but also the
most secure data center in Central-Eastern Europe. This has a particular
importance in the case of cloud services because due to the high availability
of the service we can ensure the required level of operation for business
critical applications. Another aspect of security is data security and in this
respect we provide higher quality services than the solutions currently used by
our potential customers. Those who need an even higher level of security we
recommend our instantSecurity service, providing defense solutions from the
cloud, like firewall, virus protection or filtering harmful content from the
company's data traffic.
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