Achieve business growth with a cloud solution that supports the applications and services that drive your success. A modern multilayer architecture offers a range of advanced technologies—including artificial intelligence (AI), data lakes, WAN optimization and other infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) capabilities—to deliver better apps to your employees and customers and increase productivity across the organization.
Cloud computing delivers measurable business value by reducing costs and shifting IT capital expenses to operational costs. The cost savings come from eliminating the capital expense of purchasing hardware and software and building and running onsite datacenters—including racks of servers, round-the-clock electricity for power and cooling, and IT experts to manage it all. And with the ability to scale resources up or down rapidly using your vendor’s global data centers, it takes the pressure off capacity planning.
Employees and consumers use a wide variety of cloud-based applications, from online shopping to music streaming, on desktop computers and mobile devices. For the IT teams responsible for delivering these applications, a cloud computing platform looks like any other current tech they can access over the Internet, managed with familiar system administration tools.
A well-designed cloud deployment provides a highly secure environment. The major cloud vendors employ a combination of layers of security, including physical and virtual firewalls, intrusion detection systems and data encryption. In addition, they operate large data centers around the world with multiple redundancies to protect against local outages and disasters. This makes cloud infrastructure a great choice for application development, which requires rapid provisioning of resources. Many cloud platforms offer on-demand, scalable compute and storage that streamlines development and testing.