10 Answers to the ubiquitous question: Why Cloud Computing?
(and why the Lego™ man? see #10 below)
- Reduced costs: Cloud computing reduces your hardware (computers, software (all those downloaded programs), networking management and overall IT expenses. In addition, with cloud computing, you pay for what you use.
- Scalability: You can scale your business’ storage needs seamlessly rather than having to go out and purchase expensive programs or hardware. A not-for-profit ran a cookbook project and was able to pay for all the cloud apps they needed to create, implement and market their project on a month to month basis. They didn’t have to purchase a piece of hardware, buy software licenses or worry about overloading their servers.
- Automatic Updates: There is no need for IT to worry about paying for your future updates in terms of software and hardware.
- Remote Access: employees, partners and clients can access, and update information wherever they are, rather than having to run back the office.
- Disaster Relief: With your company’s data safely stored on secure data centers instead of your server room (previously known as your storage closet), losing power due to hurricanes, earthquakes or a construction worker cutting the power lines, you are back at work as long as you have an internet connection.
- Ease of Implementation: Your IT team (hopefully older than a 10 year old) may not like this, but implementing cloud services is as easy as, well, setting up a LinkedIn page.
- Skilled Vendors: Who would you rather manage and protect your data? A company such as InfoStreet (with over 16 years experience serving enterprise clients), IBM or Amazon or your IT staff.
- Response Time: Cloud computing accomplishes a better response time in most cases than your standard server and hardware.
- Even playing field for small firms: This allows small companies to complete more effectively with some of the larger businesses, balancing the playing field. Your small business can utilize the same tools that Fortune 100 companies use and can do this because with cloud computing, your business will only pay for what you need (see #1).
- Lego: Children have been playing with Lego since 1916 because Lego allows them to build whatever their imagination designs. Cloud apps allow your business to select what your company needs, when you need it and use it how you want to. You can select an intranet as your platform, email and CRM from InfoStreet, email marketing tools from Topica, financial services from yet another vendor….. you use and pay for only what you need
It’s like Lego™ for grown-ups. Only better.
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The More Competition, the Business
In theory, the nature of cloud computing introduces greater numbers of collaborative but competitive solutions. Each consuming company makes a separate determination but those implementations, as they become possible to execute in the cloud, are directly related to the prior cultivating decision of the cloud’s pool of participants.
The cloud’s intermediary performance functions to convey three indispensible services to interconnected consumers, merchants and or service providers.
1. Authentication at the browser interface
2. Security setup and tear down
3. Validation of the authenticated parties
Device and location independence is a key attribute of the Cloud. Businesses can consume Cloud services via a multitude of devices such as PCs, mobiles, smart phones, etc.
The biggest thing is that cloud computing is operated remotely which greatly increases productivity and workflow assisting multiple users in multiple platforms. This simplifies work and creates a more streamlined approach to several functions of business.
Agreed. Obama signed Telework Enhancement Act into law, requiring all government agencies to determine which employees are eligible to telecommute and to develop policies and processes to allow them to do so. Read an interesting article on GigOm.
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Empowerment, best practices, time to market, economics are also mentioned as the top benefits of database cloud computing, which is supported in this other article http://blog.caspio.com/web-database/top-benefits-of-database-cloud-computing/
Nice post. I found this blog which describes the top benefits of utilizing cloud computing in general, and a cloud database in particularhttp://blog.caspio.com/web-database/top-benefits-of-database-cloud-computing/
This cloud computing is something I’m not sure many people saw coming. When you think about how much society has progressed in the last number of years, it is amazing really. There is all these cloud computing sites that are popping up such as http://www.dropbox.com, https://www.mypdv.com, http://www.box.com amongst many many others…I wonder where we are going with this in the future??!!
I wonder myself but I see the possibilities as exciting and liberating.
1) Reduced costs: In general terms I agree but mileage will vary depending upon your usage model. Cloud will definitely reduce capital expenses in exchange for operational expenses.
2) Scalability: Yes, scaling is abstracted from the user but even more importantly you are only paying for what you use not only in terms of storage but network and compute as well. This goes hand in hand with rapid elasticity since not only do you scale up as required, but you can scale back as well such as might be required to ramp up for holiday shopping season and then scale back down after the rush.
3) Automatic Updates: Correct, as the consumer there is no need to worry about updates and the costs for them are shared by all of the consumers as a pool rather than being absorbed as a whole by one organization due to the shared nature of Cloud services.
4) Remote Access: This is old news and not unique to Cloud in my opinion.
5) Disaster Relief: Yes, VDC and Cloud have revolutionized DR and BC – there are many great use cases for Cloud based DR and Business Continuance.
6) Ease of Implementation: Many of the Cloud offerings are very easy to setup thanks to the use of portals and service catalogs, and one of the greatest advantages is offloading the management of the underlying infrastructure and sharing those costs.
7) Skilled Vendors: One of the key here is that the larger vendors have premium access to the hardware vendors and associated support, as well as a large staff with many domain experts dedicated to managing the complex infrastructure.
8) Response Time: Cloud based computing is typically going to be bound by network latency as compared to a local infrastructure so a Cloud offering might not be the best candidate for real-time applications for example.
9) Even playing field for small firms: Actually, I’ve always felt that smaller organizations have always had a tremendous advantage over larger ones, especially with respect to agility.
10) Lego: Yes, I love LEGO as well, but we also need to keep in mind that they too can get very expensive if we decide to purchase every set available. Application sprawl can become a concern in the Cloud and it is important to control purchasing and access to cloud services.
Cloud Computing, particularly in the legal arena, is only as good as the way the documents are organized. Not much sense in having the cloud unless documents can be accessed easily, quickly and with good customer support.
Warren Hernand, CEO
ExtraAccess Services, dba CaseHomPage
This is a good post. All I know is that cloud computing works wonders for the SME as such companies have to have flexibility in very affordable rates in the field of IT services.
Cloud computing may also follow the ITIL services, and this could actually run down on the outsourcing business as well.
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