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reduces application development time and can massively increase time‐to‐value for new initiatives.
Seamless infrastructure refresh
Nothing strikes fear into a CIO’ s heart like having to deal with the replacement cycle of the IT infrastructure.
Refresh cycles can be expensive and risky, and they often require downtime. Replacing monolithic structures such as a SAN requires big capital expenditures and off‐hours work.
With the cloud, you have no operational overhead in deploying, managing, and refreshing infrastructure. That’ s the provider’ s problem. As a user, you simply key in a credit card number and, on a management console, instantly provision resources.
Security and trust in the cloud
Although still not 100 percent, people have far more trust and faith in the security of the cloud than they did in the past. Businesses are even starting to trust public cloud services for security, governance, and risk management. Organizations can focus on innovation and services without diverting resources to maintain security of the on‐premises infrastructure stack.
Control Over IT: Why Private Cloud
With all these great benefits of the public cloud, you might be wondering why you haven’ t walked into your datacenter and set it ablaze. Well, for all of the good, the public cloud is not a panacea. It still has challenges to overcome.
For many organizations, operating a private cloud makes far more sense.
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