The Benefits of Cloud Computing

• Increase IT responsiveness and efficiency.
• Reduce capital expenditures and operational overhead.
• Provide greater business flexibility through an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model that scales with your business.
• Get more choice in providers — use in-house or third-party vendors.
• Free up IT resources for innovation.

After years of data center growth and IT evolution, many businesses are left living with complex, overgrown computing platforms that are chronically underutilized. These systems take up valuable data center floor space, depreciate quickly, consume large amounts of power and cooling resources, and can cause management headaches.

What's more, the IT resources in the typical data center are locked into silos that are dedicated to particular applications. This rigid architecture makes it hard for an IT organization to quickly adapt or respond to changing business demands, and it makes it difficult to share resources throughout an enterprise — to increase utilization and improve efficiency.

By providing resources as a service, cloud computing addresses these fundamental data center challenges.