By Fernando Cardoso, sales engineer at Trend Micro.
The number of companies that use public or private clouds for their applications, emails and data centers is considerable. The image below shows some of the most used applications and large companies that use the cloud structures of providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, RackSpace and VMware vCHS.
The reason why so many brands and organizations migrate their businesses from the traditional environment to the cloud, show the strength of a trend that is here to stay.
Below, some points that show how the cloud infrastructure can considerably optimize the performance of your company:
?1st Agility
Processes that took an average of 4 months to be performed, can be done in minutes. Thanks to Cloud Computing, it is possible to upload 1,000 servers to perform data processing or even new servers for a marketing campaign launch. Most Startups, for example, already start their operations within the cloud, and use these solutions so as not to lose the agility in launching new versions, applications and features for their consumers.
Many companies that still maintain the traditional infrastructure face a rather lengthy process: the purchase and implementation of servers in the datacenter, validation of configurations, installation of operating systems and applications, testing and other steps can make the organization lag behind its big ones. competitors.
2nd Innovation
With the gain in agility, greater innovation is stimulated within the entire company and consequently the launch of new products and applications.
The innovation also allows the amount of available resources to be paid on demand “Pay-as-you-Go”, due to the use of cloud infrastructure, which means that the development team is able to have more resources to solve problems in a timely manner. simple and effective.
Below the amount of resources and solutions that can considerably help the creation of a new application, for a company or Startup using Amazon Web Services:
3rd Automation
With the use of Cloud Computing, we managed to automate several processes in a very simple way. Using only a pre-defined script, we can upload thousands of new servers with installed applications, associated security policies and other configurations that each environment needs. Companies like Netflix and Globo.com, use this to be able to support peak access to their applications and do not result in problems for their end users.
For companies that still work only on traditional infrastructure, the suggestion is to rethink the use of hybrid architectures using Public or Private Clouds as part of the infrastructure. The results may surprise you.
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