Your client doubts the advantages of cloud-based IT solutions. How can you convince them of its benefits?

Os custos em soluções baseadas em nuvem também estão relacionados a maturidade das soluções e times que as gerenciam, podendo até ser maior durante a fase inicial de migração e reduzida gradualmente assim que uma gestão eficiente for sendo alcançada.

In my opinion the savings mostly come into play when factoring the services that need to be hosted in the cloud and weighing that up with your organization processes. For example organisations with huge work from home or hybrid policy, could be convinced to migrate a percentage or all of their workloads and services to the cloud, to reduce unnecessary CAPEX on in house hosted IT hardware

Cloud migration can potentially reduce maintenance costs associated with on-premise appliances. The remote accessibility and elimination of hardware maintenance burden provided by cloud computing offer significant advantages. Additionally, the cost of IT staff required for hardware maintenance is reduced as it becomes the responsibility of the service provider. In conclusion, cloud computing can lead to overall cost reduction for organizations by optimizing resource allocation.

- Cloud CAN be a powerful tool for cost optimization, but it's not a one-size-fits-all solution. - The true savings come from carefully analyzing your IT needs and choosing the cloud services that best align with your business processes and objectives. - One must factor in the upfront migration costs, and managing cloud services, which often requires ongoing attention. - However, by optimizing your cloud environment and avoiding unnecessary services, you can achieve significant savings in the long run.

Sometimes it is not easy to convince non-technical clients for the advantage of cloud investment. I even faced it in one of my consulting assignments with a government client. To convince them, we told them the broad benefits like the same application can be used elsewhere, any changes of increasing/decreasing the resources can be taken up anytime, the application uptime and availability will be high, cost of adding new features will be less as no new infra will be required. I told them future cost savings by detailed examples, scenarios and some already implemented use cases too. So giving exact and appropriate examples alongwith accurate data & facts helps in convincing in such situations

The biggest value in cloud services offering is it’s ease of use and acess, and it’s elasticity. However, with great power comes great responsibility. Hence when exploring any As-A-Service model, consulants along with key business holders and CSP Sales Engineers should weigh up the costs of that flexibility. As it could potentially ramp up more costs over time than expected. One way to do this on AWs and Azure for example, is to explore Spot Instances and reserved instances for discounted pricing

Business continuity through High Availability is a core selling point for cloud providers. I would approach Business Continuity with specific guardrails. One of those guardrails is exploring data sovereignty regulations in region for which the “Business has to Continue to” or failover to.

While the statement highlights the advantages of cloud computing in enhancing business continuity, it does not fully appreciate the benefits of local private cloud providers or the complexities involved in ensuring regulatory compliance and cost management. For many enterprises, especially those in regulated industries or with significant data sovereignty concerns, local private cloud solutions may offer a more viable and cost-effective approach to achieving robust business continuity.

With cloud in mind, business can stop thinking locally, your data is not at your data center, now our data center is globally spread and data can be closer to users enhancing user experience.

Business continuity is one of the biggest advantages of cloud. - Information is replicated across secure data centers, protecting it from local disasters. - Even if one data center experiences an outage, your data remains available, minimizing downtime and keeping your business running.

- Cloud allows a more collaborative work environment. - Employees can access, edit, and share documents from anywhere on any device. - Real-time updates and communication lead to faster project completion and a productivity boost.

I often evaluate clients' IT security and their on-premises security posture to illustrate the benefits of cloud services. By highlighting specific examples and issues from their current environment, I demonstrate how cloud solutions can offer better security with reduced effort and complexity. This approach frequently leads clients to reconsider their opinion, especially given the persistent threat of ransomware today.

I tend to explain to my clients the advantages of the cloud. Like, I understand they might have some concerns about keeping their data in the cloud. But cloud providers actually have a lot to gain by keeping their clients’ information secure! Cloud is like a high-security vault for your data. It provides constant guard duty, automatic updates, disaster recovery, and encryption everywhere. Cloud security isn't perfect, but the benefits are significant. Reputable cloud providers take data security very seriously and have robust systems in place to keep your information safe.

In my experience, the cloud allowed us to implement an AI system for demand prediction in record time, something unthinkable with traditional infrastructure. We went from idea to prototype in weeks, not months.

Another important point to consider is that in most cases, it is practically impossible for an organization to be fully cloud-based. For instance most healthcare providers have specialised software that can and must only remain on prem, whilst also, trying to adhere to data privacy and protection requirements of the healthcare sector. Not to mention the adverse effects of a temporary internet outage could have on their cloud hosted services. Hence, having a Hybrid cloud model were critical and sensitive applications resides in DC’s Or Collocations, whilst non-sensitive services are hosted on cloud. In summary hybrid cloud model is the new cloud paradigm.