CloudStrategies Newsletter: Volume 2 Issue 7 - September 2011

To Cloud or Not to Cloud: Elasticity

To Cloud or Not to Cloud

 

Elasticity

The primary attributes of cloud computing that we hear about most often include cost reduction and improvements in efficiency and service levels.

But one of the most powerful attributes of cloud computing that many businesses truly need but cannot find elsewhere is the "elasticity" of cloud computing solutions.

What Does 'Elasticity' Do For My Company?

Most companies go through cycles.  Sometimes demands are high, at other times lower.  Perhaps yours is a seasonal business that hires additional staff at certain periods of the year.  When those staff leave, what becomes of the computer capacity you had to build up for them?  Does it sit idle?

This is where the elasticity of a cloud computing solution becomes so valuable.  Were yours a cloud-based company, you would simply "throttle up" capacity during the busy season, adding sufficient capacity to support additional users, and then simply "throttle back down" when the season ended.

The same would be true if your business needed to pilot new applications.  Once the pilot was concluded, if you were premises based, you'd have a server sitting there with nothing much to do.  In the cloud you simply unsubscribe from that server.
 

The ability to be very flexible about capacity, and to only pay for that which you use, is a tremendous advantage that can only be achieved in a cloud-computing environment.  To learn more about elastic cloud solutions, contact Cloud Strategies at 973-630-5020 or email info@cloudstrategies.net.