In recent years, the phenomenon of enterprises fully migrating to the cloud has increased visible to the naked eye. Why does this happen? What are the benefits of enterprises going to the cloud? Are all enterprises suitable for going to the cloud?
The heads of the BAT Big Three once had a heated debate on cloud computing at the China IT Leaders Summit.
Li Yanhong said: "Cloud computing is old wine in new bottles."
Ma Huateng said: "The era of cloud computing is very far away, and we have to wait."
Only Jack Ma said firmly: "This thing should be done well, and it should be done now."
Both Li Yanhong and Ma Huateng have technical backgrounds, only Ma Yun does not understand technology, but the facts show that the "cloud era" is not far away from us.
T magazine "Wired" pointed out that the utilization rate of the server in the enterprise's self-built computer room is only 6%, which is terribly low and the maintenance status is worrying. Statistics show that in a year, the traditional IDC computer room in North America was down about 4,000 times, affecting 367 million people.
This is only one of them, on the other hand, for cost and safety considerations. Cloud computing costs, stability, security, and efficiency have far surpassed traditional IT in multiple aspects. After going to the cloud, the overall cost can be reduced by more than half, stability increased by more than 10 times, and security increased by 50 times.
Moreover, with the development of cloud technology, especially the characteristics of storage and computing separation, flexibility, etc., it will have a great impact on traditional IDC.
Why do companies go to the cloud?
1. Reduce costs
The most direct factor why more and more companies choose to go to the cloud is cost. Cost is a topic that all companies cannot avoid. However, corporate decision-making is different from individual decision-making. Corporate decision-making is usually costly. Sometimes, they would rather go the old way than see a series of consequences due to wrong decisions.
Even with high decision-making costs, more and more companies choose to go to the cloud, which shows the correctness of this decision. Cloud service providers can help companies place the required calculations in the network cloud in a distributed and parallel manner, greatly reducing the company's own technical and financial pressure.
Because cloud computing has lost many links and reduced a lot of software and hardware purchases, such as self-built IT back-end, the data center can save 50% of the cost. Moreover, enterprises can also schedule computing power according to their own needs, so that the business reaches the peak without worrying about insufficient resources, reaching the trough, without worrying about wasting computing power, and efficiency is greatly improved.
2. Security and stability
Small and medium-sized enterprises will be largely restricted in terms of the number of equipment and technical support. In particular, misoperation, power outages, natural disasters, etc. will cause irreversible losses. Cloud can solve these problems. Because going to the cloud has a scale effect, and all the data of the enterprise is in the cloud, the security risks brought by hardware devices are eliminated from the root cause.
Moreover, the cloud computing platform will continuously scan its own hardware status, predict the use limit of chips and hard drives, prevent downtime, and greatly improve its stability.
3. Efficiency improvement
For many small and medium-sized enterprises, the early-stage computer room construction is an inevitable problem, and the server utilization rate is only 6%. After the cloud is fully deployed, companies only need to purchase the corresponding computing power according to their business volume and needs, and convert fixed costs into variable costs.
Not all companies are suitable for going to the cloud
Although going to the cloud is good, it is not suitable for all enterprises.
For start-ups and small businesses, the biggest cost is time. There is no time to strive for perfection in the construction of infrastructure, and there is no way to hire reliable operation and maintenance personnel. At this time, going to the cloud is a good choice. Quickly build, quickly cap, and quickly pursue business volume.
The biggest advantage of cloud services is the scale effect. Large enterprises lose their advantage because large enterprises themselves have scale effects. Building your own infrastructure is sometimes even cheaper than going to the cloud. In contrast, large enterprises usually have the ability to achieve the stability and reliability of cloud service providers, and even train an engineering team that can reach the same level.
Of course, some large enterprises do not have technical genes, and at this time they will also rely on cloud services.