On-demand provisioning of resources is the biggest advantage of Cloud

Dr. Rajeev Papneja, Chief Growth Officer, ESDS Software Solution

"Cloud promised and delivered few things that made the enterprises rethink, and ultimately for majority of them it seems to have become an affordable affair compared to the loss incurred for even a small downtime in availability of systems. Also, in today’s eCommerce world, reputation loss takes precedence over business loss. 

The biggest advantage that cloud provides to organizations is on-demand provisioning of resources, thereby decreasing the time to market for new offerings by organizations considerably. While purchasing a server could take anywhere from weeks to months, on cloud, it can be provisioned in matter of minutes. It also provides cost effective SaaS & PaaS solutions to experiment on new technologies and business models, without any heavy capital expenditure, and with the peace of mind that they will not be stuck with infrastructure or any software for life if it doesn’t turn out as expected. With the pain of managing infrastructure and platforms out of the way, CIO’s can put more of their time in transforming the organization digitally to create new arenas for growth. 

 Ultimate security is a myth! Security is an ongoing process and there is no magic bullet that can guarantee it. Properly designed and well thought Hybrid cloud architecture can help the organizations to decrease the number of breaches while making the least possible expenditure on security services. With hybrid cloud model, the organizations can use the public cloud counterpart for hosting data that is not mission critical, thereby having more control of critical data in-house. While on the other hand, if the data is required to follow certain compliance guidelines and the primary Datacenter does not have the compliance handy, hybrid model can come to rescue. While on one end it is true that it is difficult to steal if you don’t know where the data resides, it is not to be forgotten that majority of these attacks are insider driven and hence unavoidable in many cases. With hybrid cloud model, it might become a little more tedious for the attacker since a) the attacker is not well versed with the security layers of the cloud service provider b) CSP keeps on updating the architecture with continuous audits happening on regular basis and c) CSP is more vigilant of data security as it is their bread and butter.”