“Benefits of Cloud Computing
There are three major categories of pros or benefits that we see with cloud computing. These are in no particular order:
• Cost. The pay as you use model allows the amount that you spend to stay closer to the actual usage and is particularly helpful for cash strapped companies.
• Speed. The speed in procurement, deployment, and provisioning is unmatched with other infrastructure models.
• Flexibility. The ability to change an environment from a quality assurance to a staging to a load and performance while not having to pay for three separate environments is advantageous.
The importance of any of these or how much you should weight them when determining whether the cloud is the right environment for you and should be based on your particular company’s needs at a particular time.”
—Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott, The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise.
