The CloudPowering the Modern Business and Application

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The cloud is one of the largest shifts

in IT over the past decade, fueling

innovation across the globe.

Today, it powers many businesses and

mission-critical applications, allowing

organizations to take advantage of its

inherent flexibility.

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$200BGartner estimates

cloud-related spend to

exceed by 2016.

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It’s Time to Move to the Cloud

90%of new spending in the

next six years will be cloud-based.

87%of businesses

are using public cloud.

We stand to gain from thesefive cloud advantages

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Rather than keeping physical servers

online that may not be used, the cloud

lets us pay only for the power we need.

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1. Pay Only for What We Use

The cloud gives us the ability to add

resources on-demand, especially

during a high-traffic event.

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2. Horizontal Scaling

Instant provisioning in the cloud

replaces the lengthy purchase

order process.

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3. Quick Provisioning

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4. Abundance of File Storage

Storing large files on a content delivery

network (CDN) frees up server

space, enables faster data delivery

and can prevent our site from

crashing.

Gives us the ability to utilize the scalability of the cloud

alongside the performance of dedicated hosting.

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5. Hybrid Cloud Flexibility

Hybrid CloudPrivate Public

Workloads in the Cloud:Moving the Basics

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Workloads in the Cloud: Moving the Basics

Email

We can offload the time-consuming job of managing mail servers.

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Large Media Files

Hosting highly-requested images or videos on a CDN can free our server’s storage space and mitigate a popular file crashing our site.

Web Servers

A load-balanced configuration can scale horizontally to keep our site online when there is a surge in traffic.

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