Over the years we have seen the cloud debate moving from Infrastructure to Services and Applications.
More and more CIO’s and CFO’s have started looking at the cloud as a medium to transform the way existing applications are running and experienced by the user or a way to innovate and support new activities. Today, they are more open to assess the added value of migrating their existing applications to the cloud.
For instance, there are a lot of questions companies need to ask themselves prior to embarking on such a journey. For example
- What is the added value of moving it to the cloud?
- Will it reduce costs?
- Will it improve the agility and responsiveness of the company?
- Will the benefits be enough to justify the cost of that migration?
- What cloud model is ideal for your business? Etc
Today, majority of companies have adopted the hybrid cloud model, with the core agenda being security, governance and to keep a tab on the cost.
A lot of companies across the globe use the cloud for:
- Web Hosting
- Email Hosting
- Disaster recovery and Backup
- Security and Monitoring
- Application Hosting
- Content Management
- Data Management & Archiving etc