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The CloudPowering the Modern Business and Application
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The cloud is one of the largest shifts
in IT over the past decade, fueling
innovation across the globe.
Today, it powers many businesses and
mission-critical applications, allowing
organizations to take advantage of its
inherent flexibility.
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$200BGartner estimates
cloud-related spend to
exceed by 2016.
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It’s Time to Move to the Cloud
90%of new spending in the
next six years will be cloud-based.
87%of businesses
are using public cloud.
We stand to gain from thesefive cloud advantages
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Rather than keeping physical servers
online that may not be used, the cloud
lets us pay only for the power we need.
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1. Pay Only for What We Use
The cloud gives us the ability to add
resources on-demand, especially
during a high-traffic event.
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2. Horizontal Scaling
Instant provisioning in the cloud
replaces the lengthy purchase
order process.
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3. Quick Provisioning
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4. Abundance of File Storage
Storing large files on a content delivery
network (CDN) frees up server
space, enables faster data delivery
and can prevent our site from
crashing.
Gives us the ability to utilize the scalability of the cloud
alongside the performance of dedicated hosting.
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5. Hybrid Cloud Flexibility
Hybrid CloudPrivate Public
Workloads in the Cloud:Moving the Basics
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Workloads in the Cloud: Moving the Basics
We can offload the time-consuming job of managing mail servers.
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Large Media Files
Hosting highly-requested images or videos on a CDN can free our server’s storage space and mitigate a popular file crashing our site.
Web Servers
A load-balanced configuration can scale horizontally to keep our site online when there is a surge in traffic.
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