Most of companies globally are moving towards the cloud computing model. The traditional model of hosting the system or application in physical servers is diminishing. Since I'm currently working in a Cloud Product Management team, I would like to discuss about the factors driving the businesses shifting from the traditional to cloud computing model in this post.
Here's Why!
Affordable
- Cloud computing are on OPEX model. While the traditional hosting model is on CAPEX model, whereby the companies need to buy physical servers, set up and maintain the computing resources, Cloud-based model is on OPEX model. Businesses would just need to subscribe the virtual machines from the Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and they can instantly install their appplication or system.
Utility-Based
- Most of the cloud computing resources are being billed based on the usage of the subscribers. Therefore, business could actually set-off the risk of underutilizing the resources that they had bought in the traditional computing model.
Scalable
- Cloud computing resources are scalable. Businesses can scale up or scale down the computing resources according to their demands and needs. For an example, an event management company may want to temporarily host scale up their virtual machine's (VM's) performance during the peak hours of the event being held.
Faster Deployment
- While it takes longer for businesses to set up, test and deploy their physical servers with the traditional hosting model, the cloud computing don't have to! Setting up, testing and deployment of physical servers may take a few months to complete and for businesses, time is money. Through cloud computing, the virtual machiness could be easily set up and ready to be used in the matter of minutes.
Above factors justify why Cloud Computing is better than the traditional hosting model.
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