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Central to this is knowing exactly what you want to get out of the technology. The benefits of the Cloud are varied and wide-ranging, and as such there will almost certainly be advantages to adopting the technology for any business, regardless of whether its goals are to cut costs, expand internationally or improve its efficiency. The flexibility to grow For many organizations, a key advantage of the Cloud is the greater elasticity and scalability that the technology can provide. This is of particular benefit to enterprises facing unpredictable peaks and troughs in demand, or those that are dependent on seasonality. However, the ability to ramp up operations quickly without reengineering a business’ entire infrastructure is useful to any company that expects to grow its operations. Scalable infrastructure in the Cloud ensures that a company has access to the resources it needs, exactly when it needs them. With on-premises systems, an organization might have to make a decision between spending extra money to provision resources it may only need at peak times, or face not having the available capacity when operations get busy. But with a strong, scalable and elastic Cloud service, organizations can rest assured they are only ever paying for the services they use, and can immediately obtain additional capacity from their provider only when required.
