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Cost Savings and Effectiveness Cloud gives you the ability to only pay for the resources you use. This gives you access to the infrastructure that would cost too much time and money to maintain yourself, which ties back into scalability.

A traditional IT approach to scaling up is costly. It takes planning; it can take months, and it requires hardware with a high initial cost, electricity to keep it all operating and cool, and skilled IT staff capable of getting it all up and running. With the cloud, that’s all done nearly instantly by your cloud provider.

In the cloud, IT leaders can easily allocate computing resources according to unique business requirements and cut wasteful spending. Rather than estimate capacity needs in advance, organizations can make real-time adjustments and eliminate unnecessary hardware or rigid on-premises assets.

Cloud implementations can be rapid relative to on-premise variants. For instance, an on-premises implementation could take three months, while switching your company to a SaaS implementation of the same software would application of the same relative complexity and scope would only takes two weeks.

Many organizations are undergoing digital transformations to create incremental value out of existing assets. Thanks to recent advances in cloud computing, leaders can digitize more core functionality, including CRM, SAP, data analytics, and more.

Migrating to the cloud opens up numerous doors of opportunity when it comes to leveraging modern technologies. For example, organizations that migrate can take advantage of machine learning and AI, which aren’t always feasible on-premises. They can also create implement highly complex cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes containers and data lakes, in minutes.

Cloud shifts tech systems from capital expenditure (CapEx) to operating expenditure (OpEx) — or from an investment that will depreciate in value (like a room full of expensive hardware) to a regular, ongoing cost of running a business (like paying for internet).

Security and Compliance Most cloud providers are large companies, with other large companies relying on them. That’s why they go out of their way to consider security and compliance, always implementing modern security, practices, and trends ensure sensitive data is safe in the cloud.

Public cloud providers typically bring to the table policies, tech, and controls that are a huge step up from the average organization’s security practices. This is paired with considerations for almost any industry-specific compliance need.

Encrypting data at rest and in motion is much easier when using cloud technologies. Encryption is native to the cloud and doesn’t require third-party add-on applications like many on-premises solutions do.

Cloud infrastructure monitoring software allows companies to visualize and track the performance of their cloud applications or services. Monitoring tools aggregate data in real-time to display information related to a company’s cloud-based resources. These tools can track application performance, network availability, and resource allocation, among other cloud-related factors. They are typically used by IT departments to ensure services are functioning optimally and securely while also ensuring no money is being spent unnecessarily.

“Cloud agility” is often used to describe the ability to quickly develop, test, and launch business applications. But the cloud also gives you the agility to respond quickly as needs change.

Even small businesses get access to the same powerful tools the biggest enterprises use. New services can be accessed with a few mouse clicks. When a new need, challenge, or opportunity arises, it’s possible to respond immediately.

Business agility is key in the modern global economy. Having access to flexible, on-demand IT resources is crucial for keeping pace with competitors and rapidly changing industry dynamics. In the cloud, over 99% of what you need is available on-demand. Organizations don’t have to wait weeks or months for hardware components and installations. Instead, they can lease valuable capabilities directly from cloud providers and get to market much more quickly.