Much has changes since organizations valued on-premises infrastructure as the best option for their applications. Nowadays, most companies are moving towards off-premise possibilities such as cloud and colocation.
Forrester Inc. reports that Global spending on Cloud services has exponentially increased from $17 billion in 2009 to $208 in 2019, growing at an increasing rate, especially in the last five years.
Some of the benefits for the adoption of off-premise infrastructures are
- improved security with many fail-safes and guarantees
- compliance with regulatory policies
- cost-savings due to economies of scale
- reduction of overhead costs
- better performance through geo-location optimization
- higher availability
To decide which solution is best for your business, make sure you understand the concepts and how they differ.
Cloud Computing
Moving to the Cloud or Cloud Computing refers to relocating servers to a 3rd-party data center. You can rent hardware within data centers along with all required utility services, networking, disaster recovery, and security.
Most current data centers offer much better infrastructure and services than what organizations can set up for themselves. Renting rack space in a data center costs only a fraction of what it would to set up and maintain on-premise infrastructure of such scale. Also, there are considerable savings on technical staff, upgrades, and licenses.
Cloud computing is an umbrella term that refers to many technologies and services. By definition, it refers to platforms that allow the delivery of applications and computing services via the internet.
The key characteristic of cloud computing is you pay for what you use. Also, the cloud service provider takes care of maintaining its network architecture, giving you the freedom to focus on your application development.
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