Reduced Costs- Cloud technology is paid incrementally, saving organizations money. The cloud promises to reduce the cost of acquiring, delivering, and maintaining computing power, a benefit of particular importance in times of fiscal uncertainty. By enabling agencies to purchase only the computing services needed, instead of investing in complex and expensive IT infrastructures,agencies can drive down the costs of developing, testing, and maintaining new and existing systems.
Access- The cloud promises universal access to high-powered computing and storage resources for anyone with a network access device.Employees can access information wherever they are, rather than having to remain at their desks. By providing such capabilities, cloud computing helps to facilitate telework initiatives, as well as bolster an agency’s continuity of operations (COOP) demands.
Scalability and Capacity- No longer do IT personnel need to worry about keeping software up to date.The cloud is an always-on computing resource that enables users to tailor consumption to their specific needs. Infinitely scalable, cloud computing allows IT infrastructures to be expanded efficiently and expediently without the necessity of making major capital investments. Capacity can be added as resources are needed and completed in a very short period of time.Thus, agencies can avoid the latency,expense, and risk of purchasing hardware and software that takes up data center space -- and can reduce the traditional time required to scale up an application in support of the mission. Cloud computing allows agencies to easily move in the other direction as well, removing capacity, and thus expenses, as needed.
Resource Maximization- Organizations can store more data than on private computer systems. Cloud computing eases the burden on IT resource already stretched thin, particularly important for agencies facing shortages of qualified IT professionals.
Collaboration- The cloud presents an environment where users can develop software-based services that enhances collaboration and fosters greater information sharing, not only within the agency, but also among other government and private entities.
Customization- Cloud computing offers a platform of tremendous potential for creating and amending applications to address a diversity of tasks and challenges. Its inherent agility means that specific processes can be easily altered to meet shifting agency needs, since those processes are typically changeable by making a configuration change,and not by driving redevelopment fromt he back-end systems.
Access- The cloud promises universal access to high-powered computing and storage resources for anyone with a network access device.Employees can access information wherever they are, rather than having to remain at their desks. By providing such capabilities, cloud computing helps to facilitate telework initiatives, as well as bolster an agency’s continuity of operations (COOP) demands.
Scalability and Capacity- No longer do IT personnel need to worry about keeping software up to date.The cloud is an always-on computing resource that enables users to tailor consumption to their specific needs. Infinitely scalable, cloud computing allows IT infrastructures to be expanded efficiently and expediently without the necessity of making major capital investments. Capacity can be added as resources are needed and completed in a very short period of time.Thus, agencies can avoid the latency,expense, and risk of purchasing hardware and software that takes up data center space -- and can reduce the traditional time required to scale up an application in support of the mission. Cloud computing allows agencies to easily move in the other direction as well, removing capacity, and thus expenses, as needed.
Resource Maximization- Organizations can store more data than on private computer systems. Cloud computing eases the burden on IT resource already stretched thin, particularly important for agencies facing shortages of qualified IT professionals.
Collaboration- The cloud presents an environment where users can develop software-based services that enhances collaboration and fosters greater information sharing, not only within the agency, but also among other government and private entities.
Customization- Cloud computing offers a platform of tremendous potential for creating and amending applications to address a diversity of tasks and challenges. Its inherent agility means that specific processes can be easily altered to meet shifting agency needs, since those processes are typically changeable by making a configuration change,and not by driving redevelopment fromt he back-end systems.
