SaaS, HaaS and??? Arista? Curbing IT Costs and Increasing Technology Adoption

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SaaS and HaaS are no longer buzz acronyms that can be discounted as recent Internet hype words or entrepreneurs' flights of fancy. Both Software as a Service and Hardware as a Service are business models which have gained industry adoption and implementation by Tech giants such as Amazon and Google. Both SaaS and HaaS use existing infrastructure deployments to service a greater number of services and users. Google provides its office and e-mail suite of products based on the SaaS model while Amazon???s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) follows the HaaS model and provides a reliable and expandable sanbox for developers to create, deploy and expand their products and service offerings.

That is all wonderful and good ??? but how can it help you?

First, keep things in perspective. SaaS and HaaS are good tools to have but should be deployed with care and for certain business objectives only. Migrating all services and hardware requirements to a SaaS or HaaS provider puts your IT infrastructure and critical data at risk.

Second, using either Service will require one critical component: a reliable, redundant Internet connection. If your Internet goes down, business stops. Simple.

Thirdly, the point of these models is to reduce initial and continued capital expenditure and provide a means of scaling and updating to new hardware and software without painful migration or interruption to business processes. This advantage is eliminated if your Internet connectivity costs become unmanageable. Any gain in reduced capital costs in hardware may be offset by capital costs in connectivity. It becomes a tricky balancing act.

Helping to balance things is where SmarttNet???s Arista Service comes in.

Arista is based on a reliable, bonded DSL solution backed end-to-end by Cisco hardware. Multiple fail-over DSL lines provide the throughput you need to allow users at your office to properly use the HaaS and SaaS deployments. As Arista is based on multiple connections, the redundancy is built-in. Any single line failures reduce overall bandwidth but connectivity is not compromised.

Along with these benefits, Arista is scalable as your bandwidth requirements increase and costs a fraction of Fiber to deploy and maintain. Standard Arista Services can provide asymmetric service up to 24Mbps of download and 4Mbps upload.

Another major benefit of Arista is its widespread deployment capability. Nearly 99% of business addresses are serviceable and deployment time is measured in days not weeks or months as is the case with some Fiber deployments. This makes Arista a perfect solution for remote office environments.

SaaS and HaaS are realities that will become more and more prevalent in business processes. Adopting these models on a select few business processes will not only help in the overall migration of your business to a more easily managed and upgradable IT environment, but help your employees become accustomed to new business realities. SmarttNet???s Arista Service is the connectivity solution by which these business goals can be achieved.