The document discusses the benefits of moving business applications and workloads to the cloud. It notes that the cloud powers many modern businesses by providing flexibility and allowing organizations to pay only for the computing resources they use. The cloud offers advantages like horizontal scaling to meet spikes in demand, quick provisioning without lengthy purchase orders, abundant file storage, and a hybrid cloud model combining public and private resources. Common workloads that can benefit from the cloud include email, large media files, and web servers.

1. The Cloud
Powering the Modern Business and Application
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2. The cloud is one of the largest shifts
in IT over the past decade, fueling
innovation across the globe.
Today, it powers many businesses and
mission-critical applications, allowing
organizations to take advantage of its
inherent flexibility.
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3. $200B
Gartner estimates
cloud-related spend to
exceed by 2016.
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It’s Time to Move to the Cloud
90%
of new spending in the
next six years will
be cloud-based.
87%
of businesses
are using public cloud.

4. We stand to gain from these
five cloud advantages
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5. Rather than keeping physical servers
online that may not be used, the cloud
lets us pay only for the power we need.
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1. Pay Only for What We Use

6. The cloud gives us the ability to add
resources on-demand, especially
during a high-traffic event.
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2. Horizontal Scaling

7. Instant provisioning in the cloud
replaces the lengthy purchase
order process.
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3. Quick Provisioning

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4. Abundance of File Storage
Storing large files on a content delivery
network (CDN) frees up server space,
enables faster data delivery and can
prevent our site from crashing.

9. Gives us the ability to utilize the scalability of the cloud
alongside the performance of dedicated hosting.
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5. Hybrid Cloud Flexibility
Hybrid Cloud
Private Public

10. Workloads in the Cloud:
Moving the Basics
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11. Workloads in the Cloud: Moving the Basics
Email
We can offload the time-consuming job of managing mail servers.
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Large Media Files
Hosting highly-requested images or videos on a CDN can free our
server’s storage space and mitigate a popular file crashing our site.
Web Servers
A load-balanced configuration can scale horizontally to keep our site
online when there is a surge in traffic.

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