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Chapter 2: Why Enterprise Cloud?

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Today’s businesses want carefully tailored performance
and availability SLAs for their mission‐critical applications,
but they also want some choice — soft SLAs for less critical
applications, and stringent SLAs for business critical applications. For example, for a particularly important application,
the business may require that at least three copies of data be
maintained separately — public cloud services cannot offer
this level of granular control.

Achieving Flexibility, Agility,
and Choice with Enterprise
Cloud
Once upon a time, not very long ago, business users simply
accepted whatever IT gave them, whether that service was
fantastic or poor.
Not any more.
These days, businesses want to use the public cloud where
appropriate — for example, for backup, disaster recovery, and
applications with highly unpredictable IT requirements — and
switch between private and public easily.
They want three things:
✓ Flexibility: The option to run workloads where it makes
financial and operational sense
✓ Agility: The ability to quickly and easily stand up new
applications and scale as business needs demand
✓ Choice: The capability to shift workloads between providers without worrying about downtime or business
impact

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