A summary of Benefits of Cloud is listed below.
- Opex vs Capex, no new staff, no buying of servers and storage upfront!
- No physical, servers, network, switches, protocols etc
- Focus on core business instead of infrastructure
- Reduced Time to Market
- Zero upfront costs and higher efficiency in resource utilization
- No stand-by capacity. Capacity added on demand
- Massive scalability, Storage, network and cpu’s
- Improved risk management
- Configuration Flexibility
- Improved Reliability
- Instant deployment and provisioning
- IT is no longer a infrastructure nightmare for Business growth
- Cloud databases offer horizontal scale out, automated indexing, fast query and data partitioning for event Tera-bytes of data
- Going green
