The elastic cloud and how it drives digital transformation
The cloud has helped companies reduced the cost of expensive IT infrastructures. Organizations of different sizes can now accelerate their digital transformation processes because of the cloud. Elastic cloud derives its name from the ability to expand and contract to satisfy compute and storage resource needs. Rather than tie up capital to buy or license depreciating assets like servers and storage hardware, organizations can instantly access on-demand resources in the cloud of their choice, for which they are billed in a granular fashion based on usage
Elastic cloud derives its name from the ability to expand and contract to satisfy compute and storage resource needs.
Cloud computing has transformed major industries and enabled new once to emerge. The entertainment industry, as it is today, is a clear example of the transformational effect of cloud computing. In today’s world music is almost entirely consumed via cloud-based services like Spotify rather than on CDs. Netflix, amazon prime video are among those taking advantage of this technology, to mention a few.
NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction
Virtualization: the ability to create private partitions on a computer’s hardware platforms, storage devices and networking resources, is the technological innovation that makes today’s cloud possible. The idea you could rent units of compute and storage resources that could be instantly provisioned and managed by a third party to support operations anywhere in the world was revolutionary.
The impact of the cloud cannot be overstated, and it is revolutionizing every aspect of IT. Listed below are some of the benefits of the elastic cloud:
- Frees IT department from huge administrative burdens
- Saves Capital as it does not require physical hardware investment and maintenance
- Allows for easier and faster service deployment
- Access to unlimited storage capacity
- Relieves IT departments from the cycle of matching resources with demand
- Increased cyber and physical security of resources
- The lag time between user action and system response is reduced
- Reliable disaster recovery processes
- Allows staff more time to focus on business, not IT
Cloud computing helps drive digital transformation, and organizations that embrace the cloud today would be at an advantage compared to their competitors.
