Why businesses are moving to cloud

Why businesses are moving to Cloud?

By: Akber Ahmed Khowaja

Business Analyst / Technology Solutions

“No CFO likes to pay for something that’s unnecessary or being made to pay twice for something”

1. Zero capital costs

2. Lower power costs

3. Lower people costs

4. Utilized full hardware

5. Resilience without redundancy

Cloud computing is now a proven, mainstream alternative for SMBs and enterprise. Moving to the cloud will save you money

Monthly Billing

50% Annual Saving

Less IT Headache

Smooth Working

No Capital Expense

1. Cost Saving

Cloud users are able to increase or decrease their cloud services,

Servers and Virtual Machines according to demand and their

budgeted requirement to spend.

There is no need to pay for services you do not require.

2. Scalability

Businesses can sign up for the specific IT functions they require.

If needs change over time, they can simply pay more or less each

month for access to cloud services.

Simply : Pay as you Go and Pay as you Grow

3. Flexibility

The time taken to commission, implement and configure services is

generally measured in weeks, while a company could use its cloud

provider to get services up and running within a matter of hours.

4. Quick Deployment

Select Size Use it Pay for it

Cloud Service providers usually use latest processors, OEM

Memories, high performance servers, better storage drives like SSD

to provide better computing power.

Redundancy at all levels is main factor to ensure uptimes

5. High Speed Computing

In many cases, the physical security and data protection of a cloud

services provider is better than your own on-premises solution.

With a hosted cloud solution, you still decide who has control and

access, but you can spend less time managing and monitoring the

network. That gives you the freedom—and peace of mind—to focus

on your core business.

No matter what, good security begins with a deeper conversation

about your business needs with your provider.

6. Security

“Nearly 60% of enterprisesbelieve their cloud providers’security capabilities arebetter than their own.”

“2013 U.S. Cloud Security Survey”IDC

Today’s data requirement is much more as compare to 5 years or 10

years ago. Big Data is as much of a buzzword these days in cloud

computing.

Behind all Big Data projects it is a desire for business to be better

informed and for that information to be delivered at faster speeds.

Cloud provides facility to keep big data available for analysis and

decision making

7. Big Data

Cloud Servers and Virtual Data Centers are available from anywhere

24 x 7.

Monitoring, upgradation, patching, scaling, management is now more

easier then ever.

8. Availability

- Moving to cloud is now CFO’s choice, CIOs choice.

- Ultimately, we all have to move business to cloud, only need to decide it will be

Private, Public or Hybrid

- Legacy IT people are still reluctant and need some push from CIOs and CFOs to

move forward

- Moving to cloud would be status for IT heads: “I moved my services to cloud, did

you?”

Conclusion

VSP-5 Cloud

VTSP

Microsoft Private Cloud Management and Virtualization

Microsoft online Services

Microsoft Midmarket Solution Provider

Project Management Professional

Mobile Commerce

VMware Certified Associate Cloud

VMware Certified Associate

Data Center Virtualization

Akber.Khowaja@gmail.com