subject: Improving Business Agility With Cloud Servers [print this page] A recent survey by Harvard Business School has shown that though Cloud Computing brings tremendous Capex and Opex savings through server consolidation, green approaches and savings up to 80% in some scenarios, reduction in expenses is not the most significant catalyst in cloud transformation and adoption. According to Harvard, Business Agility provided by Cloud Servers and Infrastructure in whole are the key drivers for enterprises in deploying onto cloud, to harness the flexibility, scalability and ease of adoption provided by cloud computing.
Cloud Servers enable rapid provisioning of computing resources; Organizations of all sizes dynamically change over time and sometimes have to continuously add up new computing hardware to facilitate the burgeoning number of user traffic. Legacy hardware procurement takes normally 3 days for an un-configured system and overall a week for small and medium businesses, but in some cases this delay can be really costly, whereas Cloud Servers can be provisioned in hours for a dedicated server and mere minutes for shared Virtual Private Server, therefore providing quick procurement of servers. Besides provisioning resources to accommodate peak time, cloud also provides agility in economic efficiency by un-provisioning the resources in non-peak time to reduce operational expense, especially if the cloud sever is leased by public cloud vendor on hourly rental.
Cloud Servers enable quick deployment of applications; Most Cloud Servers are pre-configured to host and deploy popular business critical applications, ERPs and CRM. The flexibility and scalability provided by Cloud Hosted Servers enable the applications to request and consume computing resources on demand without compromising performance and efficiency.
Cloud Servers provide agility in new product development, testing & deployment; Cloud Servers enable an organization to develop, test and deploy an entire solution without worrying about the acquisitions and maintenance of the underlying infrastructure, whereby letting the organization to focus entirely on product development. Cloud Servers available on hourly rental are an ideal cloud server for startups with the most acute upfront cost and virtually zero maintenance.
Cloud Hosted Servers provide many opportunities and avenues for the businesses to make agile business decisions, reduce capital and operational cost and most of all facilitating on-demand real-time provisioning of cloud computing servers, thus allowing the businesses to focus on their core activities with a scalable infrastructure to meet their IT resources whenever required.
