Why Cloud?

There are three major benefits for organisations using Cloud based IT services.

The first is cost. The reduction of hardware and infrastructure and the ability to only pay for what you use, will generally mean that you will save money over a traditionally purchased, "on-premise" solution.

The second is people efficiency. The ability to securely access you data and work whenever and wherever you want will increase efficiency and staff satisfaction.

The third benefit is about organisational agility by using IT, as you need it, as a whole or within smaller teams. Removing much of the need of significant upfront investment in hardware and software licenses mean that the organisation can react and move faster.

Cloud based services are often described as being more environmentally efficient and, to a large degree this is true. The ability to run servers at a much higher utilisation because of scale reduces the carbon footprint of the service.