Wipro Executive Summary

Reaping the Benefits of Cloud Computing
Introduction:
In the current business environment, organizations are mandated to run lean and mean,
holding down costs while maximizing the resources they have. Organizations must also hone
their competitive edge with the ability to quickly deliver new products to market. An agile IT
environment with operational flexibility can go a long way in helping companies successfully
compete in the today’s highly-charged economic environment.
Cloud computing, an Internet-based model for IT services consumption, supplementation and
delivery, can be instrumental in assisting companies in dealing with today’s most pressing
issues. It typically involves providing dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a
service over the Internet. Cloud computing providers normally deliver business applications
online, making them readily available via a Web browser. Software and data are stored on
servers.
Because they only pay for what they actually use, organizations that implement the cloud
computing model avoid the substantial upfront investment in hardware, software and related
services. Resource consumption is typically billed or available by subscription. Cloud’s many
benefits include dramatically reduced costs, low management and maintenance requirements,
and immediate access to a variety of applications.
In addition, cloud delivers computing capacity to organizations quickly and on an as-needed
basis. Conversely, cloud can enable organizations to scale back as their business needs change.
This ‘elasticity’ is an important feature for organizations that don’t want to commit to the full
capacity they want today but desire to stay poised for the future ebb and flow of business
demands.
Cloud’s major benefits include:
• Agility, since users can quickly and inexpensively provision infrastructure resources on an asneeded
basis;
• Reduced cost, lowering barriers to entry and making it unnecessary for firms to make major
investments in infrastructure;
• Anytime/Anywhere access, because services are delivered over the Internet;
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