Monday, August 18, 2008

Six Benefits of Cloud Computing

A Public CIO magazine article, to be published later this fall, will highlight six main benefits of cloud computing.

  • Reduced Cost
  • Increased Storage
  • Highly Automated
  • Flexibility
  • More Mobility
  • Allows IT to Shift Focus

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know why.. but cloud computing just scares me. The idea of centralized data always scares me.

Kevin L. Jackson said...

Maybe you should think of it as "virtualized data". Centralized data implies that it's in one location and if you lose that one location, you lose all your data as well. In the cloud, you data would be accessible by you from a single "virtual" location, but it would be physically stored in multiple locations (with the the requisite security in place, of course). A cloud infrastructure has failover, disaster recovery and inherently provides for continuity of operations.