Cloud computing is the present and future revolution for all kinds of infrastructures and environments providing an extremely flexible yet affordable IT ecosystem for your business.
It is a culmination of many technologies such as grid computing, utility computing, SOA, Web 2.0, and other technologies, and as such allows delivering virtualized and dynamically scalable services at different levels: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Cloud Computing provides organizations with a new level of efficiency and agility to deliver IT services on demand:
IT Efficiency: Cloud Computing provides a way of deploying and accessing everything from single systems to huge amounts of IT resources - on demand, in real time and at an affordable cost.
- Reduce capital expense: enabling the conversion of IT costs from capital expense to operating expense through technologies such as virtualization.
- Cut the cost of running your Data Centre: improving IT infrastructure utilization rates and streamlining resource management.
- Eliminate Over-provisioning: scaling on demand, combined with utility prizing and pay-as-you-go remove the need of over-provision to meet peak demands.
- Shift the risk of Under-provisioning: organizations’ risk of mis-estimating workload is shifted to the Cloud Vendor.
Business Agility: Cloud Computing maximizes return through rapid time to market.
- Accelerated cycle: faster development and testing cycles, reducing dramatically the time to market. New business can be deployed in hours what used to take days, weeks, or even months.
- Increase agility: Cloud Computing increases flexibility in service creation. Organizations can more easily deploy and manage business-critical applications than with traditional IT infrastructures.
- Pay-as-you-go billing model: organizations pay for the IT resources it actually uses without any up-front.