Monoliths are outdated. The traditional development approach allows the application components to pack and couple tightly in a single unit, ensuring easy development and deployment. The structure is reliable and offers high performance for small-scale applications.
But as the organizations scale and expand, the traditional monolith applications fail to accommodate the rising operational demands like speed, scale and reliability. The close dependencies slow down the entire operational circle, restricting the applications from performing at the pace and efficiency the organizations hope to.
While on-premise data centres took centre stage for decades, the modern world paves the way for a faster, more reliable, and higher capability software delivery model: Cloud Computing. It offers flexibility by providing on-demand access to computing resources like storage, databases, and servers across the internet.
The overall benefits of a cloud environment will make organizations say goodbye to on-premise data centres sooner or later. It’s inevitable. But before we give solid reasons for why your organization should move to the cloud, here are a few key differences between On-Premise Data centres and Cloud:
| Characteristics | On-Premise Data Centres | Cloud |
7 Reasons why Organizations should move to Cloud
- Cost Savings
On-premise data centres demand significant upfront and ongoing hardware, software, and maintenance costs. It impacts the organization’s bottom line.
On the other hand, the cloud offers a pay-as-you-go model, enabling organizations to invest only in the resources they have utilized. These savings are significant, especially for organizations in the growth or scaling stage. - Scalability and Flexibility
A few organizations have evolving or unpredictable workloads. The lack of flexibility of on-premise data centres restricts organizations from fast growth and affects their efficiency negatively.
Cloud’s flexibility allows to add or remove resources easily, helping organizations to scale up and down based on operational requirements without breaking any sweat. - Reliability and Security
Let’s be honest. Cloud’s complexity and distributive environment invite threats like misconfigurations, API vulnerabilities, etc. But the cloud providers have placed redundant systems to ensure application and data security.On-premise data centres are vulnerable to disruptions, outages, and other reliability concerns. - Agility and Innovation
Innovation becomes comparatively more accessible in the cloud because of its ability to access and integrate a wide range of evolving technologies and services with applications. Organizations are always looking to innovate and produce new products—the cloud, unlike on-premise data centres, does not restrict organizations from integrating and innovating.Moreover, cloud providers constantly update their platforms with the latest features and technologies. It ensures organizations have access to the most modern technologies without having to invest in new software or hardware. Contrarily, this is not possible on on-premise data centres, making organizations outdated and putting them at a competitive disadvantage. - Global Reach
On-premise data centres are limited to a single geographical location. Whereas the cloud allows you to deploy applications and data to users worldwide. This gives a global reach and helps the firms penetrate markets beyond geographical restrictions. - Reduced IT
ComplexityMany tasks associated with on-premise data centres are offloaded when the organizations move to the cloud. This allows the IT staff to focus on more important strategic initiatives within the organization as they don’t have to work on time-consuming tasks anymore.Plus, access to data from anywhere, at any time, increases employee activity and productivity. - Improved Disaster Recovery
The disaster recovery systems in on-premise data centres are slow and inefficient. Cloud’s independent and diverse infrastructure allows it to identify and resolve various security threats without having to disrupt remaining operational functions—only the attacked components are resolved and resolved quickly.The data recovery is reliable, and it is efficient and faster for applications in the cloud to adapt to new kinds of attacks and place preventive measures.
Few more Factors to Consider
Security
Cloud is reliable with its security measures, but do your research and check if the cloud provider meets your specific security needs. Different organizations have different priorities in terms of customer data or intellectual property.
Compliance
It is crucial to ensure your cloud provider supports your organization to the industry-specific compliances it is subjected to.
Performance
Learn more about the networks and infrastructure the cloud provides. Compare it with your current on-premise data centres and check how it affects performance if you move to cloud.
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