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I recently attended Internet Evolution\u2019s webinar on cloud computing where the benefits of cloud computing were defined as leveraging economies of scale in computing.  This makes a lot of sense. Rather than build your infrastructure one hardware server at a time, you can leverage a pool of resources to maximize efficiency and lower your overall operating costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NIST defines Cloud Computing as: Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.  NIST is implying the economy of scale that goes with cloud computing when they talk about a pool of configurable computing resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, the benefits of cloud computing clearly include the cost savings that come with economy of scale, but also include a number of other benefits.  Here are the Six Benefits of Cloud Computing<\/strong> as I see them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Lower Costs<\/strong> \u2013 Cloud computing pools all of the computing resources that can be distributed to applications as needed \u2013 optimizing the use of the sum of the computing resources and delivering better efficiency and utilization of the entire shared infrastructure. Cost management tools in the public cloud, such as Online Tech’s SprawlGuard\u2122, take lowering costs a step further to manage and optimize your cloud spend for the most efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Cap-Ex Free Computing<\/strong> \u2013 Whether you go with a public cloud or outsourced private cloud computing option, cloud computing delivers a better cash flow by eliminating the capital expense associated with building the server infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Deploy Projects Faster <\/strong>\u2013 Because servers can be brought up & destroyed in a matter of minutes, the time to deploy a new application drops dramatically with cloud computing.  Rather than installing and networking a new hardware server, the new server can be dialed up and imaged in through a self-serve control console.  Or better yet, with a private cloud<\/a>, your service provider can dial up a new server with a single call or support ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) Scale as Needed <\/strong>\u2013 As your applications grow, you can add storage, RAM and CPU capacity as needed.  This means you can buy \u201cjust enough\u201d and scale as the application demands grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5) Lower Maintenance Costs <\/strong>driven by 2 factors:  Less hardware and outsourced, shared IT staff.  Because cloud computing uses fewer physical resources, there is less hardware to power and maintain.  With an outsourced cloud, you don\u2019t need to keep server, storage, network, and virtualization experts on staff full time.  You get economy of scale of those expert resources through your cloud provider<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6) Resiliency and Redundancy \u2013 <\/strong>One of the benefits of a private cloud deployment is that you can get automatic failover between hardware platforms and disaster recovery<\/a> services to bring up your server set in a separate data center should your primary data center experience an outage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud computing provides some strong benefits.  Selecting a public or private cloud implementation will depend on your application, performance, security and compliance requirements, but with the proper deployment cloud computing can provide significant savings, better IT services, and a higher level of reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, read all our cloud articles here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready to speak with a cloud expert? Contact us<\/a> now to learn more about our cloud solutions, including managed public cloud<\/a> with SprawlGuard\u2122 protection, virtual private cloud<\/a>, or dedicated private cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I recently attended Internet Evolution\u2019s webinar on cloud computing where the benefits of cloud computing were defined as leveraging economies of scale in computing.  This makes a lot of sense. Rather than build your infrastructure one hardware server at a time, you can leverage a pool of resources to maximize efficiency and lower your overall operating costs. NIST defines Cloud Computing as: Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.  NIST is implying the economy of scale that goes with cloud computing when they talk about a pool of configurable computing resources. In my opinion, the benefits of cloud computing clearly include the cost savings that come with economy of scale, but also include a number of other benefits.  Here are the Six Benefits of Cloud Computing as I see them: 1) Lower Costs \u2013 Cloud computing pools all of the computing resources that can be distributed to applications as needed \u2013 optimizing the use of the sum of the computing resources and delivering better efficiency and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[67,210,111,113,70],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-computing","tag-cloud-computing","tag-dedicated-private-cloud","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-private-cloud","tag-public-cloud"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Six 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