Benefits of Cloud Computing

Question 1

Reduced Investment and Proportional Costs

Answer 1

• Gives an organization access to IT resources without having to purchases it own, resulting in reduced investment requirements
• Cloud consumers pay a usage fee for only the amount of the IT resource actually used, resulting in directly proportional costs

Question 2

Increased Scalability

Answer 2

• IT resources can be flexibly acquired from a cloud provider, almost instantaneously and at a wide variety of usage levels

Question 3

Increased Availability and Reliability

Answer 3

• An IT resource with increased reliability is able to better avoid and recover from exception conditions
• Cloud providers generally offer resilient IT resources for which they are able to guarantee high levels of availability