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CLOUD COMPUTING
WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?
cloud computing allows you to rent instead of buy your IT. Rather than investing heavily in databases, software, and hardware, companies opt to access their compute power via the internet, or the cloud, and pay for it as they use it. These cloud services now include, but are not limited to, servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and business intelligence.
WHAT ARE BENEFITS OF CLOUD COMPUTING?
1. Cost—eliminate capital expenses 2. Speed—instantly provision space for development and testing 3. Global scale—scale elastically 4. Productivity—increased collaboration, predictable performance, and customer isolation 5. Performance—better price/performance for cloud native workloads 6. Reliability—fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed systems across all services
HOW DOES CLOUD COMPUTING FOSTERS
INNOVATION? Cloud customers benefit from automatically having the latest innovations and emerging technologies built into their IT systems, because the cloud provider takes on the work of developing new capabilities and features. It’s about the speed of innovation. With the right cloud provider, customers can leverage a modern cloud computing architecture to innovate faster, increase productivity, and lower costs.
WHAT ARE CHALLENGES IN CLOUD COMPUTING?
Many organizations today are still deciding whether or not to migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud. For most organizations, the promise of trouble-free, cloud-based information systems remains an elusive goal. Although cloud technology is pervasive, today’s installations primarily consist of new applications in private clouds managed by in- house IT staff. The vast majority of enterprise applications and infrastructure still remains on premises, although that is rapidly changing.
However, IT leaders often hesitate to move critical applications into the
hands of cloud service providers—partly because they don’t see a clear migration path for entrenched legacy assets, but also because they aren’t sure whether public cloud services are ready to meet enterprise needs. They are right to be skeptical: Most public cloud offerings are characterized by insufficient deployment choices, limited compatibility between on-premises and cloud systems, and a lack of enterprise-level management capabilities