Cloud computing provides two main advantages: flexibility and cost reduction. For companies, the monetary costs or benefits of adopting cloud services depends on factors like company size, existing IT resources, staffing, and technical skills. While large companies previously had an edge, cloud computing now helps level the playing field by reducing barriers for new and small companies.

1. Cloud computing has two main advantages namely
flexibility and cost reduction. The monetary costs or
benefits of introducing cloud services in any company
depends upon the size of the company and its existing
IT resources like computer hardware, software, internal
processes in the company, IT staffing and technical
skill set.

2. Often it has been seen that big firms have had an edge over small
corporations in their access to large capital and their ability to control
their existing resources like human, software and hardware which
supports the new marketing and strategic initiatives in the

3. corporation Things have changed after the introduction of cloud
computing in the past year as the obstacles got reduced for new and
small companies Cloud computing also helped to balance out the
strategic advantage which the large and established corporations
have against the smaller or newer companies

4. A small and talented team of individuals can now get together with
their individual talents to tackle the market needs without an
immediate need for a huge investment to provide the necessary
infrastructure There are a large number of cloud providers who
provide the essential software development tools, code repositories
and test environments

5. As these small companies grow their business into midsize and
large companies they face varying expenditure equations that alters
the relative costs and benefits of cloud computing For Example,
when the volume of the data traffic increases, the costs of operating
on a cloud provider's infrastructure may become more
expensive than the necessary IT infrastructure budget

6. In this case it would always be beneficial to use a policy in which
some of the applications and services are brought in-house and
others continue to be used in the cloud The cloud computing model
gives major benefits to any enterprise

7. The major benefits include reduced costs, improved service levels,
increase in IT awareness and greater business flexibility However,
the real challenge is in recognizing and calculating the opportunities
that cloud computing embodies, and developing an effective practical
cloud computing strategy to use a cloud model to its fullest

8. For introduction of cloud computing in a business it may require
major changes in the entire business processes, application
architectures used by the company, and IT infrastructure Moreover,
cloud computing has its potential risks also if not properly executed
and implemented

9. Most organizations have limited experience in this field and thus are
unsure of how they should proceed There are three cloud service
models and those are SaaS (Software as a Service) for web access,
PaaS (Platform as a Service) for software development and IaaS
(Infrastructure as a Service) for system administration

10. You can have your own cloud inside the organization, or the public
cloud of any external provider or a hybrid cloud which includes both
own or external Lastly, Cloud computing is being used by many
government agencies and organizations for their businesses needs

11. Cloud computing helps them to give importance to matters which
are significant and critical to business rather the technical side of
things