In addition to the previously discussed benefits of greater cost savings, stability, and predictability, hosting IT services in the cloud also brings enhanced mobility, scalability, and even enterprise-level security.
In this blog, we will continue to look at the benefits of the public cloud and see what makes the cloud environment a better option for businesses.
Some organizations are still reluctant to the idea of cloud computing; however, many of us have been using the cloud without realizing it. Applications like Google Drive, iPlayer, Apple’s iCloud, Spotify, and Kindle Cloud Reader are examples of cloud technology as a utility in our everyday life. We’ve enjoyed the easy and instant access to our favorite, music, books, and data on-the-go regardless of the location or device.
Workspace cloud computing is the next phase of cloud transformation because it offers the same benefits of mobility for your employees:
For mobile companies, offsite locations, contracted workers, and the traveling sales force, this means the cloud allows end users to access corporate data as soon as it is posted. For businesses that are starting up or expanding geographically, the cloud provides the most cost-effective way to have a new business or an international office up and running in a heartbeat.
Staff can collaborate in real time even though they are thousands of miles apart. This capability allows startups and SMBs to compete in the global marketplace with limited resources and hardware investment. In the cloud, businesses are getting things done at lightning speed with ease.
Since the number of servers you can provision is no longer bound by the physical size of your server closet, a whole new way of scaling your infrastructure can be unlocked:
Efficient infrastructure scaling in the cloud is achieved by performing both horizontal and vertical scaling. You can increase the storage or change the size of your virtual machine to accommodate the increasing needs of users. Once the servers can grow no further, you can just add another one to handle more requests.
This kind of flexibility is invaluable - it removes the fear that we might make the wrong hardware investment at the onset of our architecture layout, and therefore overpay for unused equipment or constantly make additional investments tying up resources. It's nearly impossible to truly understand how an application will need to scale in the future – especially when your developers haven't written the application yet!
There is no “one size fits all” strategy to infrastructure architecture, yet the cloud allows you to expand alongside the unique personality of the applications you host in just a few clicks instead of adding physical hardware, which can take days and weeks.
Cloud security is the most common misconception of the cloud.
Many people often mistake data breach as the biggest concerns when adopting cloud computing. However, cloud security is one of the major reasons that companies are moving to the cloud.
You can take advantage of the cloud while reducing security and compliance costs with a variety of built-in security services provided by a public cloud provider:
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