Top benefits of cloud computing
Cloud computing is a big shift from the traditional way businesses think about IT resources. Here are seven common reasons organizations are turning to cloud computing services:
Cost
Cloud computing eliminates the capital expense of buying hardware and software and setting up and running on-site datacenters—the racks of servers, the round-the-clock electricity for power and cooling, and the IT experts for managing the infrastructure. It adds up fast.
Speed
Most cloud computing services are provided self service and on demand, so even vast amounts of computing resources can be provisioned in minutes, typically with just a few mouse clicks, giving businesses a lot of flexibility and taking the pressure off capacity planning.
Global scale
The benefits of cloud computing services include the ability to scale elastically. In cloud speak, that means delivering the right amount of IT resources—for example, more or less computing power, storage, bandwidth—right when they’re needed, and from the right geographic location.
Productivity
On-site datacenters typically require a lot of “racking and stacking”—hardware setup, software patching, and other time-consuming IT management chores. Cloud computing removes the need for many of these tasks, so IT teams can spend time on achieving more important business goals.
Performance
The biggest cloud computing services run on a worldwide network of secure datacenters, which are regularly upgraded to the latest generation of fast and efficient computing hardware. This offers several benefits over a single corporate datacenter, including reduced network latency for applications and greater economies of scale.
Reliability
Cloud computing makes data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity easier and less expensive because data can be mirrored at multiple redundant sites on the cloud provider’s network.
Security
Many cloud providers offer a broad set of policies, technologies, and controls that strengthen your security posture overall, helping protect your data, apps, and infrastructure from potential threats.
anonymous on 09 Oct 16The article I decided to choose this week deals with what we were discussing in our discussions about the POS system that businesses are installing in their restaurants. This article was about how Chili's has implemented tablets about 45,000 across 823 Chili's around the world. Guest can now order their food, pay for their checks and kids can play games on these new tablets. Having these tablets in the restaurant has increase 20 percent in dessert sales. You can see that by guest seeing a photo of the dessert on these tablets have help Chili's sale dessert way more. The device also has a set default for tips which is 20 percent. Some guest does not change the tips so the waiter/waitress are still getting more money. The tablet does not really need a waiter or waitress only until they need to deliver the food. The tablet has allowed quicker table turnaround which means you get more guest through the door so the restaurants gets more money. Since you have the tablets on the table at all time that you are there it tempts you to want to order more and that is more money for the restaurants as well. You will always need the waiter/waitress present because they still have to deliver the food and drinks. But as technology advances, I believe that there will be even more technology that eventually there will be no need for waiter/waitress in a restaurant. For example, having robots deliver your food and drinks.
