Too many enterprises are handicapped by their physical IT resources, their business responsiveness and agility hindered by fixed computing capabilities and capacity that are expensive and time-consuming to reconfigure to address operational needs. Businesses must also provision for peak demand, frequently resulting in under utilized IT assets and inflexible overhead. Cloud Services eliminate both the limitations of fixed capabilities and overhead by enabling your enterprise to virtually provision your IT resources to meet your business requirements.
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