Start-Up

The case

Like most of the Stat-Ups, a new company lacks at first from large amounts of financial resources. It has yet to provide an internal robust infrastructure (such as PBX and shared storage), plus a scalable and reliable outsourced solution for their website, blogs and services. At the company, they have both full-time staff and part-time and not all the work is done from the same location. This implies a strong challenge.

This company has the following characteristics:

1. Need to avoid high initial costs whenever possible

2. Non-location of the internal infrastructure in one place

3. Need a proven, from recent experience, scalable infrastructure

Classical solution

The company buys a server. This allows for a shared drive, email, phone, etc., serving its internal needs in terms of resources. To activate the external services they have an array with a private server's provider, or they have to make down payments on higher-capacity servers without knowing exactly what the consumer will have in the days ahead.

There are a number of disadvantages for a start-up associated with this system:

  • Significant costs in advance, inevitable in the purchase of dedicated hardware
  • Long-term contracts with companies that provide shared hosting or dedicated server management
  • Limitations in the effective access to internal infrastructure, major software costs and maintenance efforts that often exceed the management capacity available
  • Little or no capacity for flexibility and scalability in their services

A company launch is one of the worst cases to conform with the traditional solution, because it does not provide what they really need: reducing initial costs and a high degree of flexibility and scalability.

The XephStratus solution

Benefits:

  • The company creates a file server and a PBX server using the virtual infrastructure of our cloud
  • Employees come from where they are directly to the virtual servers in a very simple. For example, any member of the company can access the PBX server from your phone and being in the same box sharing his work with the rest of the team, with its own extension, even if being in different countries
  • The company creates a virtual web server. A database server (if necessary) and external infrastructure needed in our cloud

Simply moving the internal and external infrastructure they need to our cloud, as a result, the company saved to prepay for capacity that may not need in the future, also retaining the ability to react quickly and effectively to changes in demands for its products. Similarly, they can create a network of employees and guests at their best. Which enables a significant improvement in cooperation and integration.

Main advantages

Every new company has to control costs and maximize the impact of its resources. Starts-ups needs to provide a professional service to their customers and large opportunities without having the same resources and the solutions that larger companies may possess.

Using XephStratus Solution a new company is favored by:

  • Only pay for the use of the resources they need at that particular moment. If in the future they need to scale their services our cloud allows them to automate their resources in harmony with the consumer necessities
  • Avoild advance payments and major infrastructure investments in addition to not being tied to long-term contractual commitments
  • Professional integration from multiple locations without hiring expensive software and hardware solutions difficult to address
  • Ability to meet the rapid growth expected in the event that the project is successful (very common expectation in these cases)

With the adoption of the XephStratus Platform a company can minimize and/or eliminate the vast majority of costs associated with creating both an internal and an external infrastructure. They can reach an affordable level of integration and complexity, which is not achievable with traditional solutions. Using a solution based on our cloud they also acquired a good flexibility and scalability for a company that wants to grow quickly without debit the upfront hardware costs and maintain their competitive advantage against larger competitors, including: their speed and adaptability. The rapid deployment of new solutions, in the precise scale and in a smooth way, are the main advantages that a Start-up gain from pulling up their infrastructure to our cloud.