5 Reasons Your Business Should Move to the Cloud
Cloud computing is the rapid provisioning of on-demand computer system resources and services over the internet, usually on a pay-for-use basis. Like a public utility, cloud computing relies on the sharing of resources to provide coherent resources. Businesses and organizations that make use of third-party clouds are able to focus on their core processes without spending time and money to building and maintaining computer and IT infrastructure.
Many businesses have moved (or have considered moving) to the cloud because of the immense flexibility that is present in the way services are provided. Cloud computing services offer a variety of systems including:
- infrastructure as a service (IAAS)
- platform as a service (PaaS), which includes specialized PaaS types such as integration
platform as a service (iPaaS), data platform as a service (dPaaS) - blockchain as a service (BaaS)
- software as a service (SaaS)
- mobile backend as a service (MbaaS/BaaS)
- function as a service (FaaS)
- as well as serverless computing
Cloud infrastructure can be deployed using several different models:
- a private cloud operated for a single organization
- a public cloud where services are provided over a network that is open for the use of the general public
- a community cloud, which shares infrastructure between organizations from a specific community
- hybrid cloud, which is a composition of two or more of the three clouds models mentioned
- distributed cloud, which includes public resource computing and volunteer cloud computing
- multicolor
- big data cloud
- cloud for executing high-performance computing applications (or HPC cloud)
This whitepaper shares several reasons why your business should strongly consider joining the growing number of companies moving their infrastructure to the cloud. It discusses the numerous benefits to making the switch, including the increasing value of the cloud market, the increasing adoption of the cloud, the high-quality security present on cloud infrastructures, the ability to access files from anywhere online, secure backups for data, and greater scalability. Download this whitepaper today.
