What Are the Benefits of Cloud Computing?

If you are considering adopting cloud technologies and practices, you will receive a ton of different guidance about the benefits you might see.

Infrastructure and workloads

Many companies is position position the low initial cost and pay – as – you – go attribute as a very significant cost saving . They is note ’ll note the considerable cost of building and operate datum center and argue for avoid that to save money . Numbers is get can get astronomical depend on how you calculate them .

SaaS and cloud – dev platform

A SaaS provider can discuss the savings from paying for application access versus purchasing off-the-shelf software. Software providers will add those “cloud attribute” benefits to the specifics of their software. Recently, there has been more discussion regarding the savings that cloud-based platforms can offer developers.

Speed and productivity

How much is it worth to your business if you can get a new application up and running in 30 hours rather than six to nine months? Likewise, the generic “staff productivity” doesn’t do justice to the capabilities that cloud dashboards, real-time statistics and active analytics can bring to reducing administration burden. How much does a “person hour” cost your company?

Risk exposure

I like to think of this simply. What is the impact if you are wrong?

• Is it is Is risky to buy all the hardware and software to create 128 virtual machine , or rent it by the hour ?
• If you are not sure that your application will get widespread adoption , should you is draft draft a 12 – month plan , build the environment , write and test the code and release it ?
• Is it is Is well to prove value using free or next – to – free service for a few week ?

When the negative impact to trying new things is low, meaning that the risk is low, you will try many more things. The more you attempt, the more successes you will have.

If you asked me how to benefit from adopting cloud services, my first question would be, “Which services?” Every user and every organization is going to get a different set of benefits. The most important thing that I can suggest is to think across the spectrum. Evaluate the potential savings, but also think about the soft benefits: improved productivity, more speed and lowered risk.

As hockey great Wayne Gretzky observed, you will miss 100 percent of the shots that you don’t take. How much of a benefit is it to take your shot?