About Cloud Computing

Definition

Cloud computing is the use of resources that are located and managed remotely offering computing and storage to users on demand.

Benefits

Cloud enables business intelligence tools to be delivered at a low cost without additional infrastructure or maintenance since they’re hosted on external shared servers that are accessed via the internet.

There is a long list of benefits for adopting the cloud within your business, which include.

Version Control

Security

Resiliency

Speed

Collaboration

Keep pace with Innovation

Agility

Accessibility

Focus on value-add

Why Businesses Needs to Adopt Cloud Computing Today

Adopting Cloud Computing is no longer solely about economics and agility though it does provide both. It has become enterprises most critical and dependable source of sustained technology innovations as innovative technologies like Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and internet of things are available for everyone through the cloud. Digital transformation drives organizations need to develop new cloud-native applications to create immersive experiences for their customers.

Cloud Tool Types

Infrastructure as a Service

Infrastructure as a service allows the most control. Essentially all you’re asking a cloud provider for is a server to host the machine.

Examples are virtual machines or storage accounts.

Platform as a Service

Platform as a service allows users to manage the applications data and the access, while the cloud provider does the rest.

Examples are a cloud hosted database.

Software as a service

Software as a service allows user to manage the data and access, while the cloud provider does the rest.

Examples include Salesforce or even Gmail accounts.

Cloud Providers

Summary

Upload data services can be used singularly or together in any combination of data storage, data analytics, reporting tools and different applications across different vendors. Currently the 3 taking up the largest market share are.

Google Cloud platform

Microsoft’s Azure platform

Amazon AWS platform

Cloud Key Strategies

Utilization and Determination of Top-Line Metrics Reporting

Top-Line Metrics Reports: Designed for tracking key performance indications on a recurring basis.

Key performance indications: High-level metrics capable of tracking and/or predicting financial figures reported by the company. For example, website visitors and daily sales.

Top Line: Refers to gross financial figures reported by the company, which is primarily revenue and sales. The Top Line indicates a company’s ability to sell its goods or services as well as indicating growth.

Employ DevOps

DevOps: practices that combine software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It is a combination of culture, processes, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver improvements to applications and services at a faster pace than organizations using traditional management processes.

Business Upskilling and Education

Invest in upskilling and education for IT and the business

Migrate Processes to Applications on the Cloud

Identify key applications for migration or processes being done on the cloud via laptop

Champion Modern Data Platform

A modern data platform is a set of best practices that allow you to get the most out of your data with the least amount of platform management.