By decreasing costs and increasing functionalities, the cloud has truly changed the way businesses work. Here are some of the ways cloud has changed IT infrastructure:

Software Centric Design

With cloud being software centric, there is no need to worry about the underlying hardware. There is also no need to cross check if the applications can be supported by your system. Since all the resources are connected to the cloud, all you have to do is scale your cloud storage to run bigger applications.

Easy Flexibility

With hardware-focused systems, you would ideally have to buy a bigger and more expensive hardware to increase the capacity of your computers. But if you only had a need for a few months, it would still be a big one-time investment. On the contrary, cloud companies provide pay-as-you-go plans which you can subscribe to. So you could increase your storage capacity for a month or two and then go back to the original plan.

Scalability

Setting up data storage units in your organization can be a complex and hectic, to say the least. You not only have to calculate your current storage requirements but also predict your future requirements so that you don’t suddenly go out of resources. Now, you may end up using the entire storage quickly or you may not use half of it — leading to loss of investment.

On the other hand, cloud companies provide the scalability that you require by adding infrastructure in small increments. For example, we at Simform have used AWS EC2 instances to eliminate manual intervention of increasing or decreasing server capacity for one of our clients. Here’s the case study.

Automation

With automation, cloud companies no longer need to continuously reconfigure their servers whenever a change in the infrastructure is made. Instead, the applications are designed to adapt to the changes automatically.

VM-Centric

By taking a VM-centric approach, administrators can easily backup their data and update replication policies for virtual machines without any extra work.