Migrating traditional computing systems to the Cloud seems to be gaining more popularity as some organisation fear being left behind in an ongoing tech evolution.

If your organisation hasn't done it, or is considering it, maybe you are wondering what the benefits are - the Cloud Value Proposition.

Cost Saving (reduced TCO - total cost of ownership)

Reduced CAPEX (capital expenditure) - Getting started in cloud computing does not require investment in computing resources, such as mail server, web servers file servers.
A modern server for a small company can cost upwards of £500 each. Larger units for medium to large enterprises are in the region of £2500 each.
Reduced OpEx (operational expenditure) - Traditional data centres usually charge a monthly rate for each server they are housing for your company. On average, this is over £100 per machine per month and can run in to £1000s per month depending on the needs of the client. These costs are payable whether the servers are receiving traffic or not.
Operational costs for virtual servers from cloud computing providers can be as little as £5 pcm. With cloud computing auto-scaling technology the number of servers available to share the workload can increase or decrease with demand - and you only pay for what you use. So, no paying for redundant servers.

Staff Productivity

According to Amazon Web Services (AWS), there is a 2x improvement in staff productivity when comparing cloud computing to on-prem or in traditional data centres. There is no requirement for staff to procure physical servers, transport them to the data centre and the oversee the setup.

Operational Resilience

Worried about outages in the cloud? Every availability zone has multiple tier 1 providers - that is, providers of the power and cooling capacity. In addition, each compute instance has two independent power sources. If one supplier fails, the other will ensure uninterrupted service continues.

Business Agility

Your team will be empowered to instantly provision, scale up, scale down or decommission resources as needed. The avoids the delays inherent with long business procurement processes, as well as the wasted cost of over provisioning (investing in extra resources all year round to cover the annual two month busy period).