Business USES

BUSINESS USES FOR CLOUD

Cloud computing describes a range of IT services that are provided on a utility basis. These services can typically be turned on in minutes, and scale rapidly up and down according to your need. When you no longer need the cloud services, you cancel them and stop paying.

Cloud is a major change in the way businesses are choosing to buy and consume IT. In the past organisations made a forecast and built infrastructures that were sized to that forecast. When the forecast was wrong, the IT systems were either over-engineered, or not up to the job. Cloud computing changes all that. It provides IT on demand, giving you the flexibility to scale your IT up and down in line with the peaks and troughs of your business. This means that you don’t incur IT costs in advance of expected demand. Instead you simply scale up your cloud infrastructure when you’re sure that demand is real. And if demand falls away again, you’re free to scale down your cloud infrastructure, keeping your costs aligned with your revenues. It’s not just seasonable businesses that are jumping on the cloud. Even organisations with very predictable traffic are finding that cloud services are ideal for testing and development. The capability to turn on a server within minutes, running the Operating System of your choice, with the flexibility to reboot or delete the server from a web portal, means that developers in all kinds of organisations are flocking to the cloud. Cloud Servers and Cloud Files have already helped many customers in many different business applications.