Reduce Costs

With hardware servers, companies must predict data usage to determine how much hardware needs to be purchased, budget maintenance fees for the servers, and eventually replace the server hardware. With the Cloud’s auto-scalable feature, infrastructure scales to the current needs of a company so they only pay for what is being used. Paying for idle infrastructure space and unused hardware is no longer needed. Consequently, total cost of ownership (TCO) decreases. While migrating to the cloud is an investment, there are usually incentives from hyperscalers that can reduce the cost of this process. 

Streamline the Workforce

Since the Cloud can be accessed remotely from anywhere, employees are able to collaborate and share data easily throughout the world. As a result, teams’ productivity increases since sending files back and forth can be time consuming, inefficient, and can use more storage than needed. Workforce productivity is further increased during cloud migration when common workflows will be identified and optimized. Additionally, repetitive tasks will be automated. Cloud Migrations also allow IT departments to deploy staff for other tasks as there is less of a need for server maintenance.

Access to Innovation

With workloads housed in the Cloud, businesses have increased visibility into data, allowing for more opportunities to innovate. Hyperscalers often provide pre-made datasets to use or build off of to create reports. Moreover, innovative cloud technologies, like Artificial Intelligence, can be enabled to analyze your business data in order to provide even stronger insights into business trends and decision-making. A subfield of Artificial Intelligence that can be used is Machine Learning, which applies algorithms to the system to automatically optimize through experience and the use of data.