CLOUD Services
Cloud computing providers play a foundational role for businesses. Virtually every enterprise uses cloud computing in some manner, whether it’s to deliver key infrastructure and services, host applications or a content delivery network (CDN), or handle machin learning and software development.
What does your organization require? Different cloud platforms are better suited to different organizational requirements—and geographic footprints vary greatly. Similarly, different platforms focus on different services. A few of the factors to consider include your dependency on legacy systems currently in place, the type of cloud services needed, the applications and services they support, security and compliance requirements, and overall scalability and flexibility.
Cloud frameworks also support an array of emerging digital technologies, mobility, artificial intelligence(AI) and machine learning (ML), and the Internet of Things (IoT). As networks expand, the edge becomes more important, and a greater need to manage data in an agile way takes shape, clouds deliver evolutionary and sometimes revolutionary gains.
According to Gartner, the worldwide-iaas-public-cloud-services market grew 40.7% in 2020. “Hyperscale providers are continuing to build distributed cloud and edge solutions that extend the public cloud’s reach into private and on-premises locations, addressing the needs of organizations relating to data sovereignty, workload portability and network latency,” noted Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner.
