Cloud computing as a technology has rapidly spread its wings
far and wide, with most organizations recognizing it as a potent weapon against
competition. Providing the maximum value to customers is the top agenda along
with cutting costs. Enterprises are now beginning to understand the difference
between private, public and hybrid clouds. The only question is which model
will suit their business requirements and be the most cost effective and
efficient solution. In this two part series, we first discuss the advantages of
public cloud over private deployments in a small to medium business environment.
IT admin efficiency: Using the public cloud for managing
applications frees up the time of IT administrators so that they concentrate
their energies on managing internal business applications, instead of trying to
juggle between infrastructure management and applications.
Security and availability concerns: An SMB generally requires
the same level of security and availability as any other business organization.
However, it is expensive to achieve these goals since they require a redundant
server, storage and network infrastructure as well as stringent policies for user
access. Public cloud providers have resilient IT infrastructures, ideal for SMB
needs.
