Benefits Of Cloud Computing for Business
Flexible Costs
- Cloud computing eliminates the capital expense of buying hardware and software and setting up and running on-site datacenters the racks of servers, the round-the-clock electricity for power and cooling, the IT experts for managing the infrastructure.
- The costs of “sas cloud computing” are much more flexible than traditional methods.
- Companies only need to commission and thus only pay for server and infrastructure capacity as and when it is needed.
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- More capacity can be provisioned for peak times and then de-provisioned when no longer needed.
- Traditional computing requires buying capacity sufficient for peak times and allowing it to sit idle the rest of the time.
Do More With Less
- With cloud computing, our companies can reduce the size of our own data centers or eliminate our data center footprint altogether.
- Big data stores are now, more than ever, accessible via standard and well-know interfaces like SQL.
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- Cloud Data Services or Data as a Service (DaaS), as it is quickly becoming known are providing API (Application programming interface) interfaces to help organizations access and publish data with documented access support.
- This provides organizations with the ability to receive and provide access to data that would otherwise be difficult or costly.
- The reduction of the numbers of servers, the software cost, and the number of staff can significantly reduce IT costs without impacting an organization’s IT capabilities.
Fresh Software
- saas cloud computing - (Software as a Service), the latest versions of the applications needed to run the business are made available to all customers as soon as they’re released.
- Immediate upgrades put new features and functionality into workers’ hands to make them more productive.
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- Software enhancements are typically released quite frequently.
- This is in contrast to home grown or purchased software that might have major new releases only once a year or so and take significant time to roll out.