ENDURING ASPECTS OF CLOUD COMPUTING – HERE ARE THE TOP FIVE

Cloud computing has altered the IT service delivery model by providing numerous benefits including on-demand scaling, consolidation of resources, better asset utilization, reduced maintenance costs and more. Cloud computing influence the practices of business technology in one way or another. 

Here are five Abiding Aspects of Cloud Computing -

1. Resource Optimization - With cloud computing, provisioning of resources is a matter of minutes, organizations can scale resources up or down as per the demand to align with the changing business needs. Consolidation and pooling of resources leads to better asset utilization and results in reduced maintenance costs and resourcing needs.


2. Efficient Delivery - Adoption of cloud technology reduces delivery lead-time for services and software, as automation and on-demand scaling are basic features that comes with cloud computing. It allows companies to optimize capability delivery to keep pace with the runaway demand. In addition, shared resource pool, improves the capacity utilization by reducing the number of resources allocated thus resulting in diminished-time-to-value and controlled costs.

3. Increased Collaboration - As per a survey by Frost & Sullivan, with increased collaboration, companies has experienced 400% return on investment. With cloud enablement, businesses experience increased collaboration as all employees can access information or vital data from anywhere, anytime. It allows employees and clients to keep track of critical updates in real time, as they can synchronize and work with ease on shared apps and follow updated records. 

4. Software Design Discipline - Cloud computing is highly effective when it comes to software design discipline. In software design practices, use of this technology brings positive outcomes in terms of separation of concerns, deployment readiness, code execution efficiency and modularity. Software design will need to accounts for run-time and change-time concerns including bundling strategies. 

5. Emergence of platforms - Cloud computing has also altered the development experience, whether it is about working directly with OS services, data storage, middle-ware protocols or working together with development toolkits, programming interface or API’s of integrated platforms. Developers benefit by utilizing offered infrastructure services, data, assembly and presentation services. In addition, they can add their own configurations or codes to deliver business capabilities. Most popular platforms include iPhone, Facebook, Google App Engine that allow developers to focus on technology-based strategies and business models.