As a Hosted IT Services provider, we provide a wide range of services from server colocation to private virtual clouds.  The primary difference between your traditional IT provider to a Hosted IT provider is the way your IT infrastructure is setup and where it lives. A traditional IT company will setup and manage your network onsite at your location. A Hosted IT provider will setup the majority of the network infrastructure in the cloud, or an offsite data center. There are many advantages for using an offsite facility. Most importantly are the reliability and the cost savings. You can dramatically reduce your costs for energy, licenses and hardware expenses. You can also free up your IT staff to stay focused on mission critical projects instead of updates and patches that can end up eating much of their time. 

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Expenditures on the surface are very black and white but what does it really mean, what’s necessary vs. what’s not?  Why are we managing this when it’s not our expertise?

What are my real options to reduce expenses, and increase profitability in this area or for the business as a whole without negatively impacting my business operations or clients in the process?

Consider the following typical annual expenditures running your business in any IT Department vs. outsourcing those same services or hard costs on an annual basis:

In Closing, as a Financial Manager myself it’s easy to see how compelling these numbers appear, certainly compelling enough to investigate the options further.