Speed

Possibly the biggest reason why companies are switching to cloud is because of the amount of time it takes for everything to get going. With a traditional software, the time it takes to commission, instrument, and arrange the services usually takes around weeks or months to do. However, if a company uses its cloud provider to get everything started up and going, the whole process can only take a couple of hours. Think about it. Why would you wait for months for an IT department to order and get new servers when you can get one yourself within a couple of hours?

Once it comes down to it all, when your business is at the point to start expanding, you cannot have the lack of technology hold you back. When customers want your new product, it’s hard to tell them to wait. To get all the technology needed to grow, buying and setting everything up usually takes around weeks. With the cloud, the growth of your business can be reached within minutes. Using the cloud in place your company will be put at a competitive advantage to grow effectively, and to outpace the rest of your competition.

Now more than ever it is easy to see that the world is moving at a very fast pace. To keep up with this pace the cloud has made starting up a business very easy and rapid. It is one of the only areas where starting up a business can have the same resources as a common large corporation only cloud does it in very little amount of time.

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