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10 Reasons Why Cloud is Changing IT Michael Mansour 5 Jan 2011 8:01 PM Comments 5 As we continue to see a rapid migration of infrastructure and services to the cloud, we list the top 10 reasons why cloud is changing the consumer and business landscape: 1. Cost: an on-prem solution requires the constant purchase & maintenance of hardware. A public cloud offering negates such cost – as IT management is handled off-prem. Saving estimates range anywhere between 35-65% depending on hardware investments. Companies can now channel those funds towards business innovation instead of IT assets. 2. Service Availability: outages not only affect a customer’s productivity but can also violate SLAs with the customer’s customers. Cloud providers are far better equipped to ensure availability to the end-customer. 3. Efficiency: virtualization of servers will continue to proliferate in order to optimize hardware utilization. Microsoft System Cen...

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