5 unique benefits of cloud computing

Grazed from CXO. Author: Editorial Staff.

Organizations can’t stop singing praises of cloud computing. Many cite benefits like cost savings, flexibility, elasticity, scalability, load “bursting”, storage on demand. These are the advertised benefits of cloud computing, and they certainly help make for a solid business case for using either third-party services or a virtualized datacenter.

But after the agreements are signed, systems and processes are set up, and users are retrained, something unexpected happens. The initial use cases are realized, but then additional benefits begin to emerge—sort of like the icing on the cake, but often, these unforeseen benefits provide far more value to the business than initially planned. Joe McKendrick, a contributor for Forbes, writes that the unexpected benefits that emerge as cloud projects are immense. They include:…

More flexibility to get into new businesses: What holds back new the pursuit of ideas among entrepreneurs and large organizations alike? Time and money or the lack thereof. Say you want to design and test a new product line. With the available of on-demand cloud resources, new configurations can be up and running within hours or minutes, so that helps reduce the time element. Since users will only be charged for that amount of time they use cloud, that helps reduce the money needed. Even within the largest enterprises, innovation springs from constant experimentation, the ability to keep trying new ideas, and be willing to fail. On-demand cloud resources provide the way to try out new ideas without extreme investments in supporting systems. And a shift in business focus can be made fairly quickly…

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