Yo! Sushi to Save 40% by Moving to Cloud Computing

Yo! Sushi to Save 40% by Moving to Cloud Computing

LONDON, November 4, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    Fast-food chain YO! Sushi hopes never to buy a server again, according
to its IT Manager Billy Waters, and is placing its bets on cloud computing
to improve productivity.

    Running Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office and other applications on 7
year old servers was a cause of concern to YO! Sushi. "The servers were
reaching the end of their useful life and replacing them and upgrading our
core office software would require substantial investment," explained
Waters. "We were convinced that there was a more elegant, cost-effective and
efficient alternative."

    Determined to identify a flexible alternative that delivered the
capabilities that YO! Sushi required - both today and for the future - and
which delivered real value for money, Waters evaluated the options. "Broadly
speaking, there were three options: Replace and upgrade our on-premise
infrastructure, partner with an organisation that provided hosted data
centre services, or the Cloud," said Waters. Yo! Sushi worked with IMGROUP -
Microsoft's Worldwide Partner of the Year in Business Intelligence and Data
Management for four consecutive years, who recommended that the business
migrated its entire infrastructure over to Microsoft Office 365.

    "Microsoft Office 365 takes the industry's most recognised set of
productivity and collaboration tools and delivers them as a subscription
service," explained IMGROUP's Head of Online Services, Jeremy Neal. "With
Office 365, YO! Sushi could lower overall costs and deliver the right set of
tools for the right users, all with appropriate layers of security and
compliance."

    "The more we looked into the benefits of Office 365, the more we
realised that it could have been tailor-made for us - it was considerably
cheaper than the other alternatives, far easier to manage and removed, at a
stroke, all of our business continuity and disaster recovery concerns. It
was, basically, a 'no brainer,'" explained Waters.

    According to Waters, the cloud set-up will save YO! Sushi about 40% over
a five-year period compared to an on-premise exchange server. "In addition
to the up-front and long term savings, we get the benefit of having tools
such as SharePoint online, as well as not being in the position of replacing
an Exchange server again in five years," he explained. "And the solution is
future-proof. If we went the traditional route, we would have to do the same
thing again in 5 years time. This way, we never have to buy a server again!"

Source: IMGROUP

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