What’s the cloud?” “Where is the cloud?” These are all questions you’ve probably heard or even asked yourself. The term “cloud computing” is everywhere, and MTech Computing is here to explain it to you.

 

5 Cloud Business Benefits

One of the benefits of cloud computing is increased efficiency; services are rapidly deployed and ready for use in a matter of minutes versus the weeks or months it traditionally takes. But there is more to cloud computing than just getting your computer resources, storage capacity or application as a service within minutes. Based on personal experience with cloud consumers, here are the top five business benefits beyond efficiency.

Business agility

Being able to deliver results faster, cheaper and with more quality might just give your business a competitive edge and make it more nimble. I have seen a data analytics project being reduced from 4 months to just 3 weeks, reducing the projects time-to-market and overall cost significantly.

New business models

It has become much easier to start business innovation initiatives, often enabled by readily available cloud services. Utilizing or combining these services can result in new and innovative business models, generating new value propositions and resulting in new revenue streams. There are even companies that are building entirely new business models and value propositions solely using cloud services

Less operational issues

Utilizing standardized services can significantly reduce issues and defects. This increases business continuity and reduce time spent on operational issues, focusing more on the things that matter. Cloud computing allows you to deploy the same service or topology of services repetitively, with the same result every time. This allows organizations to predicatively deploy pre-build server images; application services or entire application landscapes defined using design patterns.

Better use of resources

On the other side of the “business agility” model, more efficient projects and less operational issues allow your employees to spend their time on other more useful activities that may offer a greater potential value to your business. This benefit is different for every organization and harder to quantify, but people are an organizations biggest asset and this allows you to better utilize this asset.

Less capital expense.

There is some debate about the value of shifting from a capital expense (CapEx) model to an operational expense (OpEx) model. Overall sentiment is that, specifically for short and midterm projects, the OpEx model is more attractive because there are no long term financial commitments. In the OpEx model zero upfront investment is required, which allows organizations to start projects faster but also end them without losing any investments in the cloud services.

As you see, there is much more to cloud computing than technology alone. The true power of cloud is what the technology, implementing rapidly deployed services in the cloud, can mean for your business.

Cite: “5 Cloud Business Benefits | WIRED.” Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital, n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.

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MTech is pleased to offer to your organization Cloud Services. Cloud Services are IT services that are delivered to your business through the internet. Our Cloud Services can help your organization reduce its investments in physical hardware and software, while maintaining performance and stability. Our Cloud Services include:

 

• Cloud Servers – fully managed virtual servers that provide your organization with the same services that a standard server offers, but without the costly investments in hardware and upgrades.
• Cloud Backup – ensure that your organization’s critical data is backed up in a secure offsite location.
• Cloud Symmetry – your organization can continue to operate in the event that your business is affected by natural disaster.

 

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