Benefits of the Cloud
- Cost reduction (hardware, administration ...)
- Resource optimization (Processors, memory ...)
- Economy of scale (You only pay for what you use...)
- Flexibility and reactivity (If the needs evolve ...)
- Ease of implementation
- Quality of service
- Access from anywhere
- Backup
Public Cloud
Benefits
- Cost. Infrastructure at the charge of the service provider. The customer does not bear any IT investment.
- Fast and easy deployment (usually web portal)
- Easy credit card purchase
Disadvantages
- Random performance (pooling)
- Geographic location of servers / data
- Legal security requirements for auditing
- Random ALS
- Overall robustness dependent on the weakest link
- Complication of data backups and restores (Symantec survey showing that 68% of companies experience restore failures
Private Cloud
Benefits
Same advantages as simple virtualization with the addition of the following points
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- Responsibilities given to the different departments
- Ease of deployment
- Possibility of precise re-invoicing to each department
- Evaluation and anticipation of future IT costs
Disadvantages
- More complex security rules
- Management of the infrastructure is also complex