{"id":9076,"date":"2018-10-19T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/blog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T03:26:40","slug":"the-5-key-benefits-iaas-provides-for-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/blog\/cloud\/the-5-key-benefits-iaas-provides-for-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"IaaS and the 5 Key Benefits it provides for Retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a huge force in driving costs down in a world where margins are razor-thin. Combined with the increasing competition that pure online retailers pose, it is absolutely vital that your organization be as efficient as possible \u2013 not only from a cost perspective but also from a performance and availability standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get a brief, meaningful snapshot of the benefits that IaaS poses for the retail industry, we have compiled a few of the key benefits of using an IaaS for your organization.\u00a0 It is hard to appropriately rank these benefits, as they are all very important, so pay no attention to the listing order.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"1-enhanced-availability\"><strong>1. Enhanced Availability<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Your organization can\u2019t afford downtime, no matter if that means the website, ERP systems, accounting software, or other corporate applications.\u00a0 IaaS helps maximize uptime from within your environment to having multiple layers of power, network and cooling redundancies on the physical level.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"2-iaas-and-efficiency\"><strong>2. IaaS and Efficiency<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Refocus your resources on more revenue generating functions by utilizing a <a href=\"https:\/\/wowrack.com\/en-us\/service\/managed-services\/managed-private-cloud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Managed Private Cloud<\/a>.\u00a0 With a proactively-managed environment, Wowrack\u2019s team of 24\/7\/365 in-house experts monitor, remediate and maintain your environment, freeing up your time to focus on other tasks.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"3-managed-security\"><strong>3. Managed Security<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wowrack.com\/en-us\/service\/security-services\/managed-detection-response\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cybersecurity<\/a> is one of the biggest factors with going with an IaaS as is business continuity.\u00a0 By utilizing an IaaS such as Wowrack, you can rest assured that your environment is constantly evolving as new emerging threats come out on all facets of the infrastructure.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"4-reduced-overhead\"><strong>4. Reduced Overhead<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>CAPEX can be a huge unexpected burden.\u00a0 With an Iaas, you will have a steady, predictable bill without having to worry about things like UPS or generator purchases and maintenance, physical security, HVAC\/Cooling maintenance, network build-out as well as personnel since Wowrack is staffed 24\/7\/365 in all engineering aspects (networking, system admins, NOC, data center technicians etc.).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"5-iaas-creates-customer-delight\"><strong>5. IaaS Creates Customer Delight<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>IaaS helps facilitate big data analytics so that you know who your buyer is along with providing a fast, simple and secure buying online buying process for organizations with a high focus on e-commerce.\u00a0 Make it easier for your buyer to do business with you by utilizing an IaaS who can optimize your environment for performance with maximum uptime.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-can-wowrack-help\"><strong>How can Wowrack help?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Wowrack is a global leader in various services including <a href=\"https:\/\/wowrack.com\/en-us\/service\/backup-disaster-recovery\/disaster-recovery-as-a-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disaster Recovery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wowrack.com\/en-us\/service\/cloud-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Private &amp; Hybrid Cloud solutions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wowrack.com\/en-us\/service\/colocation-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colocation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wowrack.com\/en-us\/service\/backup-disaster-recovery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backup Services<\/a>, Managed AWS &amp; Azure, SD-WAN services and more.\u00a0 All of these can optionally be co-managed or fully managed by Wowrack 24\/7\/365 team of experts.\u00a0 With a workforce that is 80% engineering, you can rest assured that no matter what challenges you face, Wowrack is by your side to help.<\/p>\n<p>Contact us today to schedule your no-obligation consultation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a huge force in driving costs down in a world where margins are razor-thin. Combined with the increasing competition that pure online retailers pose, it is absolutely vital that your organization be as efficient as possible \u2013 not only from a cost perspective but also from a performance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[1078,1133,1066,1134],"class_list":["post-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","tag-cybersecurity","tag-ecommerce","tag-iaas","tag-iaas-for-retailers","post-wrapper"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wowrack.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}