Cloud computing focuses on the IT infrastructure itself

D V Seshu Kumar, Asst. Vice President - IT Head, Orient Cement

“There is a demand as established companies move towards cloud technologies, companies expand IT departments and new companies. Great opportunities for fulfilling work with great pay. Overall, it is a great time to be in the cloud computing. 

Cloud computing, and indeed the whole concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), is continuing to grow in popularity. Already, these new web-based models of software distribution are completely transforming the way in which companies’ access and store their business-critical applications and data.

One key benefit of cloud computing focuses on the IT infrastructure itself. A strong SaaS provider will have sophisticated systems that offer a much greater level of resilience than most businesses could ever create for themselves. After all, the SaaS service providers whole business depends on the service that it is providing. The important thing is to choose a reputable SaaS service provider, then businesses will increase their resiliency and strengthen their business continuity plans with agility, flexibility, and scalability.

The cloud allows organizations to decrease the time it takes to provision IT infrastructure, speeding delivery of IT projects that are critical to revenue growth or cost reduction. While a physical server could take days or weeks to procure and provision, a cloud server takes minutes.

Moving to cloud computing may reduce the downtime of managing and maintaining IT systems. Rather than establishing data centres and purchasing expensive systems and equipment for business needs. It all depends on the business model and approach. Traditional businesses like manufacturing etc., those industries having flat demand or consistency in the demand across the seasons, for those cloud computing may workout little expensive otherwise domains like ecommerce etc., where one cannot predict the demand will work out cloud computing very cost effective. 

Hybrid cloud computing providers expose a set of software user interfaces (UIs) and APIs to allow users to manage and interact with services. The security is dependent on the security of these APIs. Cloud is safer than on-premise say that majority of security leaders.

 
Research results says that security professionals believe that the risk of a security breach is the same or lower in cloud environments compared to on-premise, it also says multi-cloud approach is seen to be more risky than hybrid and single-cloud approaches.”