The following are some of the possible benefits for those who offer cloud computing-based services and applications:
1. Cost Savings - Companies can reduce their capital expenditures and use operational expenditures for increasing their computing capabilities. This is a lower barrier to entry and also requires fewer in-house IT resources to provide system support.
2. Scalability/Flexibility - Companies can start with a small deployment and grow to a large deployment fairly rapidly, and then scale back if necessary. Also, the flexibility of cloud computing allows companies to use extra resources at peak times, enabling them to satisfy consumer demands.
3. Reliability - Services using multiple redundant sites can support business continuity and disaster recovery.
4. Maintenance - Cloud service providers do the system maintenance, and access is through APIs that do not require application installations onto PCs, thus further reducing maintenance requirements.
5. Mobile Accessible - Mobile workers have increased productivity due to systems accessible in an infrastructure available from anywhere.
