What is PIPs Cloud Computing Services ?

Understanding the Future of Business Technology

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate by providing scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions for IT infrastructure. At its core, cloud computing involves delivering computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics—over the internet, or “the cloud” to end users. This allows businesses to access these resources on-demand, without the need for significant upfront investments in hardware and software.

PIP has been running its own cloud infrastructure since the turn of the century. It only uses tier 1 hardware and software suppliers providing clients with a high performance modern cloud. All aspects of the PIP cloud are hosted in secure Australian physical data centres ensuring privacy and security to your data.

Our partnership with Microsoft provides you access to Microsoft’s Azure Platform the business leaders of public cloud service providers for both sales and service through PIP your one stop IT supplier.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable remote servers or resources. These IT resources can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service.

PIP’s Private Cloud

PIP provides a comprehensive private cloud solution tailored to meet the specific requirements of businesses seeking enhanced security, control, and compliance. Our private cloud offers bespoke solutions for organizations of all sizes. By leveraging PIP’s private cloud, your organization benefits from guaranteed uptimes, support levels, and access rights. All data storage systems are stored in datacentres located within Australia, ensuring compliance with Australian legislation regarding security, rights, and privacy. This model is particularly suitable for businesses handling sensitive data, as it provides an isolated environment with elevated levels of control and customization. PIP’s private cloud can be fully customized to meet the unique needs of your business, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Public Cloud and Microsoft Azure

The public cloud, on the other hand, is a cloud computing model where services are delivered over the public internet and shared across multiple organizations. Currently the top 3 public cloud providers consist of Microsoft Azure or Windows 365, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As a partner and reseller of Microsoft since the 80s , PIP sells and recommends the Microsoft Azure platform. We believe the Microsoft Azure is the leader is public cloud platforms, offering a wide range of cloud services, including those for computing, analytics, storage, and networking. As a reseller of Azure and a Microsoft partner, PIP provides businesses with access to Azure’s comprehensive suite of services a dedicated customer portal and a complete support agreement, which can be easily scaled to meet changing demands.

Azure’s public cloud services are designed to help businesses innovate faster, achieve greater agility, and reduce costs. With Azure, businesses can deploy and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centres, ensuring high availability and performance.

Benefits of Cloud Computing for Business

Cloud computing offers numerous benefits for businesses, including:

  • Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for large capital expenditures on hardware and software, as resources are provided on a subscription basis.
  • Maintenance Costs: By leveraging cloud resources for your business, you can elevate half of your IT resources once allocated to hardware, backup and security maintenance
  • Scalability: Allows businesses to scale resources up or down based on business needs, providing flexibility and efficiency.
  • Up Time: Cloud computing datacentres, have redundancies on redundancies in an effort to keep your servers running 24x7x365. These systems eliminate power outages, network outages or device failures.
  • Accessibility: Enables access to applications and data from anywhere with an internet connection, supporting remote work and collaboration.
  • Disaster Recovery: Provides robust backup and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring business continuity in case of data loss or system failures.
  • Security: Cloud environments, offer advanced security features, including data encryption and access controls all to enhance your data security.
  • Innovation: Facilitates rapid deployment of new applications and services, accelerating business innovation and growth.

Hybrid Cloud: The Best of Both Worlds

A hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud environments, allowing data and applications to be shared between them. This model offers the flexibility to move workloads between private and public clouds as computing needs and costs change, providing greater flexibility and more deployment options.

Hybrid cloud solutions enable businesses to maintain critical workloads either on-premise or in private clouds, sometimes with physical servers, while leveraging the scalability and cost efficiencies of public clouds and a farm of virtual machines for cloud applications. This approach can lower costs, enhance security, and improve overall agility by tapping into the best features of both cloud environments.

Unfortunately, over time, organizations operating in a hybrid environment are often compelled by software vendors into cloud migration of their end-user applications. Eventually, it becomes inefficient to maintain in-house IT hardware for the diminishing number of business applications it supports. In such scenarios, best practices involve reassessing the current infrastructure and developing a plan to eliminate any remaining IT infrastructure. Thereby, saving power, capital expenditure and IT human resources.

Software That Works Well in the Cloud

As an IT service provider, PIP has and will provide your business with the best platform on which to run your particular software applications. Some products are built for dedicate cloud hosting these include:

  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems: Cloud-based CRMs like Salesforce allow businesses to manage customer data and interactions efficiently.
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Solutions like SAP and Oracle Cloud ERP streamline business processes and improve data accessibility.
  • Collaboration Tools: Software like Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace facilitate team collaboration and communication.
  • Data Analytics and Business Intelligence: Tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Google BigQuery offer powerful data analysis capabilities, this combined with unlimited processing resources provide unparcelled performance for financial services and big data analytics.
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI): Artificial intelligence (AI) thrives in the cloud environment due to the cloud provides scalable computing power, which is essential for handling the large datasets and complex algorithms that AI requires especially from mobile devices
  • Development and Testing: Cloud environments provide scalable resources for software development and testing, with platforms and development tools like Azure DevOps and AWS CodePipeline.
  • Content Management Systems (CMS): Web browser based CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal allow for easy content creation and management.
  • Backup and Disaster Recovery: Services like PIP Microsoft 365, PIP Warm Backups, Azure Backup and AWS Backup ensure data protection and recovery.



Cloud computing is an indispensable tool for modern businesses, offering a range of solutions to enhance efficiency, security, and innovation. By leveraging the power of private, public, and hybrid clouds, businesses can achieve significant competitive advantages and drive growth in an increasingly digital world.