Cloud computing services have become one of the fastest growing sectors of the IT industry as more and more businesses realise their huge potential.
The cloud computing model provides an efficient and flexible virtualised storage infrastructure – enabling organisations to manage their corporate data more effectively. IT software and hardware resources are provided as a pay-as-you-need-it service, which can reduce operational costs by up to 40%, especially for medium and large organisations.
The technology behind cloud services is able to deliver more efficient computing by centralising storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. It allows quick and easy access to mission-critical systems and information without the need to buy, install, manage or own any infrastructure – simply by tapping into the ‘cloud’.
But how do cloud services actually work?
In a cloud computing environment, a user requests information from an application (for example, via a virtual desktop). Common business applications are delivered online and accessed from a web browser, whereas software and data are stored on central remote servers by the service provider. Employees can therefore access their entire desktop and personal files via the internet or other secure network – whenever and wherever needed.
Cloud computing services enable businesses to add value while reducing costs. If properly exploited, cloud services allow companies to significantly reduce their IT budget as well as their data centre operational costs.
Benefits of cloud computing services include:
- Avoid capital expenditure on hardware, software and services
- Only pay for consumption used with little or no upfront cost
- Low entry barriers with rapid provisioning
- Significant cost savings
- Low IT management overheads
- Highly resilient and fully scalable performance
- Data security, accountability and control.
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