Understand the Total Cost of Cloud

Quintessential Guide to Buying Cloud

One credit card and a few clicks to provision a 2x4 – pricing can be that simple. On the other hand, doing real work on the cloud requires more than simple capacity: There are concerns over security and governance for compliance, access controls and ensuring an “always on” state for the cloud. It’s important to understand the impact these requirements will have on the price of cloud.

Inadequate support by cloud providers, a lengthy list of add-on features, unclear service level agreements and unpredictable billing affect the total cost of ownership (TCO). How much do benefits like innovation, agility and consistency really cost on the cloud?

For CIOs and sourcing professionals, we’re offering a guide to buying cloud written by the Outsourcing Center. It covers all the things that can add cost to a simple rate card and provides guidance for moving from a traditional outsourcer to a cloud provider.

Today, CSC offers three cloud models, with industry-leading SLAs and managed services in precious metal tiers – you match the service tier to the workload or application to control cost. With CSC, many service costs like reporting and security are packaged with the service tier. Clients choose what they will manage and what CSC will manage for them.

CSC cloud specialists use automated approaches like the CSC WAVE^™ and a solutions calculator to develop an accurate cost model. We make it simple to subscribe to the enterprise cloud tailored to your business or mission requirements.

Building the Business Case for Enterprise Cloud

Justifying a move to enterprise cloud requires defining the business value. Gain more insight into the value of an enterprise cloud and leveraging a staged approach to cloud transformation by reading this white paper.

CSC's IaaS Demo

CSC clouds are easy to use and simple to manage. Take a video tour of the user experience and see how IT can give business users what they need while maintaining control of security and cost.