Don't spend money on the right remedy

Case: Inquira Select cloud infrastructure provider Skytap

Just this time last year, with the heat of cloud computing, some commercial recovery and profitable companies were also on the road to cloud computing, when software vendors Inquira decided to increase their IT size, using natural language Processing (NLP) technology, At the same time, a large data and business processing framework similar to SAP is used to solve the difficulties in the continuous growth of enterprise data.

Like Apple's technical Support customer Service center, self-service service Support site and "Genius Bars" in the Apple Store (Genius Bars is a customer service area specifically for customers to solve difficult problems), Nokia, Honda, Axis and 3M are Inquira customers and customer service. Is such a strong backing of the company, in 2009, the company began to be in a state of stagnation, the traditional software sales model and some demonstration products can not continue to maintain. Why this is the case, for the enterprise, the requirements of the server as well as the occasional manual delivery of products is too expensive, inefficient to discourage enterprises.

"We have overseas engineers who are responsible for designing distribution solutions. "he said.

What Chakravarti is now looking for is a concise solution, as well as the construction of an online sales and demonstration infrastructure. He is acutely aware that companies are being affected by inquira existing IT conditions. "The challenge, of course, is that we haven't virtualized the infrastructure yet." "He spoke.

And Chakravarti found the answer from cloud computing. He chose Skytap, a cloud infrastructure provider focused on the virtualized lab environment.

Chakravarti said the first factor he considered was cost, and the cloud computing model was good from the start. First, simply paying for the cost of using is far more cost-effective than spending heavily on new servers. "It's easy for us to pay on demand, but it's hard for me to get approval for early fixed-cost input." ”