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Cost
Eliminates the capital expense of buying hardware and software and setting up and running
on-site
datacenters—the racks of servers, the round-the-clock electricity for power and cooling, and
the
IT experts for managing the infrastructure.
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Global scale
The ability to scale elastically. In cloud speak, that means delivering the right amount of
IT
resources - for example, more or less computing power, storage, bandwidth - right when
they’re
needed, and from the right geographic location.
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Performance
Cloud Solutions run on a worldwide network of secure datacenters, which are regularly
upgraded to
the latest generation of fast and efficient computing hardware. This offers several benefits
over a single corporate datacenter, including reduced network latency for applications.
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Security
Offering a broad set of policies, technologies, and controls that strengthen your security
posture overall, helping protect your data, apps, and infrastructure from potential threats.
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Speed
Provide self service and on demand, so even vast amounts of computing resources can be
provisioned in minutes, typically with just a few mouse clicks, giving businesses a lot of
flexibility and taking the pressure off capacity planning.
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Productivity
On-site datacenters typically require a lot of “racking and stacking”—hardware setup,
software
patching, and other time-consuming IT management chores. Cloud computing removes the need
for
many of these tasks, so IT teams can spend time on achieving more important business goals.
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Reliability
Cloud computing makes data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity easier and
less
expensive because data can be mirrored at multiple redundant sites on the cloud provider’s
network.