Cloud Technology – Why?

Author: Liveops

Date: 30th March 2013

Historically, deploying mission-critical software required that you purchase software licenses from a vendor, install the software locally on employee PCs or servers, and retain on-site IT resources to maintain it. Infrastructure costs, facilities costs, labour costs and maintenance costs, add up quickly as IT staff perform upgrades and patches, maintain security and servers, ensure redundancy and uptime, back up data, and more. And don’t forget — as your business grows, you need to purchase additional licenses for new users, and potentially even more infrastructure, which drives up costs further.

Cloud computing radically simplifies how you deploy, maintain, and access software, platforms, and infrastructure — because everything you need is available through the Internet as a service, also known as Software as a Service (SaaS). Looking ahead, analysts see this as a long-running trend where all types of business services will be virtualized, enabling massive interoperability and the potential for huge cost savings.

 


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