In this video, we're going to talk about computer system scalability, how to use IT Services,
Cloud Services and technology to scale up a business and really grow.
Good day Dan, how are you?
Good, thanks Tim.
So you've seen a lot, as a person who runs an IT Company.
You've seen a lot of examples of using technology to grow a business.
Before we get into the specifics, can you give me a story, ones that kind of a killer
story about a company growing a long way through the use of technology.
We actually have a few, but there's one that comes to mind about a building company who
wanted to grow themselves into new markets.
So they had, say around 10 to 15 people in their organization in one office.
And they wanted to grow into different markets, in different states around Australia.
So, we enable them to set up their business in the cloud and then they can set up offices
in different locations very very quickly and be able to use those resources as if they're
sitting in head office, but they might have been sitting in a rented office in Brisbane
or Melbourne or in a different location.
So you enable, so you migrated all their data to the cloud and then that enabled you to
set up offices quite quickly in other towns where they needed to be.
That's right.
Once their data's in the cloud, we're able to create secure connections back into that
data, so that they could access that data and be able
to run their business from any location.
So as a result, that business grew from 10 to 15 people to well over 200 people within
just a few years.
Really? Alright. Terrific.
That makes a lot of sense.
So let's go back to the mechanics of this.
It's a great story, an inspirational story.
Let's talk about the sort of tactics you might pursue just when it comes to growing the number
of people in the business.
Let's say, you know, you're gonna go from 10 to 20, or from 2 to 8, or from 8 to 18.
What sort of tactics should you be considering in terms of IT services
and the sort of hardware you might need.
They're actually fairly critical questions when we're talking to a business about what
they want to achieve and how they wanna grow.
So if a business tells us they wanna grow fairly dramatically and not only in numbers
of staff in the business and also in locations, then we certainly set up the IT and we structure
it in a way that enables them and facilitates that growth very easily and very efficiently.
So say for example, in the past if the business wanted to grow into different locations, and
go from 1 to 5 offices in different states, you'd have to effectively buy say 5 times
the amount of IT equipment to set up in each of those locations.
But now, we centralize it in one location, give each of those offices secure access into
that one location.
And then they can set up as many offices as they want to because they're always connecting
back to that same central source of their data.
So what I'm hearing between the lines is that model where you have to have a server in each
office can be superseded by a cloud style.
One centralized model.
It's taking it from being very decentralized, having servers in each office to having it
centralized in one secure location.
Okay that makes a lot of sense to me.
And in fact that really lead to my next question.
Which is how to leverage cloud computing for scalability.
What sort of benefits might you have as you're scaling up a business if you can centralize
through cloud computing?
So the thing about that server that you would have had to put in the office.
If you're growing, say from 2 to 200 people, that server would need a fairly large upgrade
very quickly.
(sure) It would need more hard drives, more RAM, that means down time, it means cost,
financial cost as well time cost as well.
So instead of doing that to the server in your office, when it sits in the cloud that
same server that sits in the cloud as that needs upgrading.
We literally just change the numbers and increase the amount of RAM, the amount of hard drive
capacity, the amount of servers.
Completely seamless.
Generally, the end-user doesn't see that that kind of maintenance is going on because that's
what data in the cloud enables you to do.
Have that scalability without taking the business down.
It's also good for the business for their cash flow as well.
So instead of having to pay 10,000, 50,000 dollars for just one server upgrade, instead
of that, it's a monthly subscription.
So..
Much lower cost in an on-going fashion?
Absolutely.
So you can actually wind up at a screen, where you sort of, so to speak, say click server,
double server capacity, click and it's done?
Pretty much like that.
Yeah, and within minutes to hours of making it happen and again very little disruption.
Alright, terrific.
Thanks very much.
There are some great tactics there about how to scale a business.
If you like to find out more, or perhaps ask Dan some questions about how to grow your
business in this context, please get in touch through the website sabervox.com.au