The Pro's and Con's of Cloud
Pro's:
- Opex vs capex – are your needs getting bigger than your capex resources can cope with? Cloud can allow you to use your opex to meet these demands
- Easy to deploy – with cloud you can move quickly from planning to testing to launching to market and then just as quickly remove it
- Scalable – no matter how big or small your needs might be cloud can be the perfect solution
- Agility – with cloud you can commit IT resources without having to sign long term contracts so you can really make dynamic business decisions.
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Con's:
- Data bandwidth shock – when sending data back and forth in the cloud you need to make sure you have allowed for the increased bandwidth costs
- Performance – some applications may perform poorly especially in a public cloud where latency is an issue so check out the private cloud route or choose what you take to the cloud carefully
- Making your ROI – moving to the cloud may not mean you greatly reduced costs, especially in the short term so it is important to understand the true costs and returns
- Security – while there may be many applications you could put into the cloud the data that runs on those applications could be sensitive so make sure you understand the security implications.
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