As we hit 100 POSTS on Instagram, Five Minutes SST shares 100 reasons Cloud Computing should be your next IT venture! Shifting your applications and workloads on cloud can come in with several benefits for your technology spend, overall infrastructure and speed up several operational processes. Here are 100 more convincing reasons for you to migrate your IT assets to cloud now!

1. Cloud systems offer flexibility for growing and changing business needs.
2. It offers scope for scalability based on fluctuating demand bandwidths. 
3. Cloud Computing offers greater data and system security.
4. Cloud Services are on-demand without the need of any contracts or the hassles of documentations. 
5. It offers Disaster Recovery models to ensure that no data is lost and everything is protected in the system. 
6. Along with Disaster Recovery, a cloud model, based on your chosen cloud vendor and service provider, offers easy and automated back-up options to ensure that sensitive data is saved in a variety of formats. 
7. Unlike On-premise hardware and systems, cloud systems reduces the chances of redundancy of workloads and are less prone to outages. 
8. Even during natural disasters and calamities, one can ensure that the technology processes remain in progress and there is no loss of business continuity. This also holds beneficial during power failures and other times of crisis. 
9. Easy pay-as-you-go pricing models, after initial migration and set-up, that makes cloud spend minimal and easy to track. Unlike on-premise models where business buy or own all the hardware and resources, in cloud pricing models they only pay for the resources, software, storage and networks they use!
10. Promotes cost reduction as it cuts off the spend on the maintaining and handling legacy systems, including old-outdated hardware, on-premise facilities and utilities on the ground.
11. Apart from cloud running costs, the total cost of ownership is considerably lesser than the total cost of maintaining and running an on-premise data center. There are major cost savings running a virtual database along with lesser administrative costs.  
12. While cutting costs, cloud computing services do not compromise on efficiency. Hence, the SMBs and Enterprises using cloud rent cloud services they need and the return on investment is assured. 
13. SMBs usually have lesser budgets for IT spend and technology expenses. But with cloud, many of these small businesses have recognized their budgets even with limited budgets. Hence, one can work with cloud to minimize IT spend after initial set-up. 
14. Cloud Services ensure that third party integrations are simple and timely based on need and technologies.  
15. Most cloud providers have their own marketplace where businesses can search and find the right tools offered by third-party companies to enhance opportunities for automation, delivery services faster and offering more customized solutions. 
16. Major benefits in virtual storage options that allows to migrate, maintain and manipulate vast amounts of data, even in petabytes in some cases.
17. The storage space in the virtual cloud space is unlimited for your business processes and data to run with no hiccups and pauses. 
18. The data gathered and stored on cloud has no limitations. It can be of any format, variety, size, or velocity. The cloud systems handle it with ease! 
19. Storing image and video files on cloud environments ensures that there is no loss in the resolution of these media files. Even during updates, these files are made usable and adaptable to new system changes without changing existing hardware capabilities.  
20. The cloud data platform enables business to collect data from a variety of sources and share their insights with partners and allies while regulating the flow and publication of their own data to ensure privacy and data security. 
21. Cloud data platforms empower businesses with the capabilities of indexing. With this service, each content piece is simplified into meta-tags making it simple for the cloud customers to search and combine different bits of content. This helps in easy retrieval of data from a cloud environment. 
22. While working with large video files, powerful cloud based systems help to lessen the time in final rendering and sharing video editing workflows while allowing collaboration among several teams. This decreases the need for purchasing expensive local machines. This holds true while working with other forms of data, including text and images. 
23. Data stored in the cloud can be easily converted to models that come with greater scope for data visualization and analysis. This makes data scientists to clearly see through the changes in data unlike the raw data that is obtained from earlier systems. 
24. With a business’s global data on the cloud, data scientists or even a layperson can run queries to fetch data from anywhere on the planet. This offers insights on patterns and lessons of success from other centers to enhance outcomes and business structures. 
25. With the power to access the data anytime round the clock with lesser turnaround time, there is an increased efficiency of IT systems and workloads after the migration to a cloud system that suits the business needs. 
26. The data and workloads stored in the cloud can be accessed anywhere across the globe as they are stored on a virtual data center.
27. With access of data across the world, there are increased opportunities for collaboration with industry partners and strengthen the operational processes of your business across the globe. 
28. Regular updates and notifications make it possible to track the working of cloud functions. Additionally, right predictive alerts when things are going haywire help to protect the system and data. 
29. A fully functional cloud system reduces the strain on the business developmental team to fully concentrate on business innovations and gives an upper hand in competitive edge in the market. 
30. The responsibility around the cloud systems is reduced as the workloads, storage and everything associated with the cloud environment are managed by the cloud vendor or cloud service provider. 
31. Ensuring that the systems and technology infrastructures meet the compliance rules and regulations is an expensive and formidable task. But with a cloud service provider with the right certificates for compliance specific to your industry can reduce your stress on these authorized rules and laws. These certificates of the cloud provider are valid globally and suit the needs of any governing body. But ensure that you inquire about these certifications and audits from your cloud vendor before you plan to migrate.
32. For start-ups and SMBs, the cloud systems compensate for the lack of IT expertise as the Cloud Service Provider handles and manages several workloads and data with security on the cloud. 
33. Unlike other technology resources, a business with cloud need not have staff to acquire expertise or support skills. There is a decreased need for training of staff and manpower in the organisation. With a smoother learning curve, any organization can lessen the time taken for deployment with the existing staff capabilities. 
34. Even with a IT team, cloud reduces the burden on these development teams to work with continuity without worrying a lot about back-ups and disaster recovery. This assists the team to run quicker while all workloads are happening on an user-friendly platform. 
35. Technology and IT are not a stagnant and there are several new system updates that come with any technology infrastructure. In cloud systems, a business’s workloads and systems have access to automatic updates based on IT needs. This would comprise server & software updates along with enhancements to computer processing power. But beware, these updates are automatic, not free. 
36. With cloud applications regularly updated, the performance of these systems is high and workloads are handled with increased efficiency. The latest generation of software capabilities ensures that the system has decreased network latency and higher possibility for scalability. 
37. Maintaining a version is very easy as everything is maintained by the cloud service provider, including models of server less and virtual systems.
38. Even back-up and recovery is maintained by the cloud service providers ensuring that the data is safe. 
39. Additionally, this backed-up and recovered data can be monitored and tracked for changes in versions. 
40. Back up and recovery make it easy for the data stored in cloud systems to be reliable and have 24/7 availability to the businesses hosted on cloud.
41. Although there is greater access, the access on cloud data centers can be restricted and only authorized users can view and modify data. This lessens the possibility of hacking and increases security around sensitive data. 
42. Even when there is a breach of the system, cloud service providers works towards ensuring that there is no accidental leaks of data or security information. 
43. Better access to cloud ensures that the authorized users get access to data at all times, ensuring peace of mind and increased confidence on systems during retrieval of mission-critical data and workloads. This enhances the trust with the system too! 
44. Cloud Services ensures that you have the highest quality of data and consistent reports of your projects and workloads. With all the processes stored and managed in a single area, one can ensure that they can get the right data and reports. 
45. The data procured, analysed and displayed by cloud systems are usually the free of human error and lesser confusions in storage areas compared to legacy models of storage.
46. Cloud resources offer easier and better manageability. This is one of the major reasons SMBs shift to a cloud environment. With accessible portals and automatic configuration of resources, one experiences enhanced management of resources when compared to a non-cloud infrastructure.
47. Every service that is offered through a cloud model can be measured. Hence, for a cloud model, this measured services is the baseline for charging and resource planning. Hence, moving to a cloud system enables users to obtain better cloud usage information. 
48. With the right dashboard tools, one can analyse every part of the system and optimize resources and spend based on past usage. While unused workloads can be removed, one can upscale parts of the system that are frequently used with the detailed reports from the system. 
49. With better resource planning, cloud solutions help to control and reduce the spend and thereby any overhead charges, unlike the on-premise model, can be easily eliminated in the next payment bill. 
50. Cloud Computing solutions offer high speed in development and deployment, as one can reply on these solutions to create and work on several virtual instances with ease. 
51. There are lesser limitations of these systems as they avoid dependency on on-premise hardware and out-dated legacy systems and their limitations, including lesser speed in processes and higher downtime. 
52. With easy working models and quicker deployments, the cloud model ensures that the IT resources have lesser time-to-market. 
53. The downtime, the time during the unavailability of a machine, is minimized after the shift, as most cloud systems are highly available 24/7. 
54. Cloud systems enable users to obtain real-time data analytics from all digital applications on the cloud environment to enable insights at finger tips. 
55. With regular insights about the systems, one can track and monitor customer activity across all possible digital products and channels and plot the customer journey with the business with ease. 
56. Powerful data analytics helps the business to understand every customer persona and create personalized experience for them on their applications and social platforms to engage and connect with the customers. 
57. Additionally, the data insights on customer activity are useful to make changes in the systems to help enhance customer experience and their impression about the business. 
58. With cloud’s powerful data analytics, businesses now fulfill their customers’ needs in lesser time and ensure that the customers are satisfied with the services offered. 
59. With a cloud service attached to the back-office, a business can drive higher engagement with the customers who get timely and best support and form stronger links with the business or enterprise.  
60. Cloud computing, when implemented and managed rightly, also enhances rates of repeat business, making customers loyal to them. 
61. Further, the data from the past customer activity and engagement with the business can be fed into the system to make forecasts on purchase behaviors, trends and drips in the sales of any business using technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. 
62. Cloud services make it easy to gather and analyse feedback from a large population. Hence, businesses can focus on gaining performance data from customers and check on the quality of their services. 
63. Customer experiences can be made intuitive and adaptable based on customer needs and preferences. With AI technology empowered user experiences, the platforms and digital interfaces become easy to use, reducing confusions and complexity to show the customer what they want to see and reduce redundancies. 
64. Apart from customer satisfaction and service, the cloud systems are also useful to engage with employees and perform Human Resource Activities. 
65. HR Processes can be streamlined and made easy after deploying cloud solutions. With this, businesses can enable the community of employees to engage in self-services while ensuring that the HR gets a complete view of every employee. 
66. Just like customer insights, any business can track employee decisions and make sure employees and collaborators are taking the best decision to enhance workplace productivity and internal business processes. 
67. With the increase in work-from-home culture, businesses can now ensure that they can work without a pause, even with remote workers in their bag. Cloud Services make it possible to overcome WFH challenges and ensure that the work goes on, even when the world is locked down.
68. With only a need for internet connection, cloud services ensure that there is increased employee mobility in your business. Hence, there is no loss of productivity in any scenario. 
69. Along with empowering remote working across various geographic locations, cloud systems also ensure that the workloads and applications are accessible on every device and hardware that is owned by the business without loss of security, quality, and efficiency of data.
70. With a variety of feedback gathering mechanisms, employee communication and workspace ideas can be procured and analysed with ease. This would help to supplement town hall discussions and public hearings. 
71. After gathering feedback from employees, organisations can work on publishing and show progress in projects on a public stage. This aids in creating transparency of the organisation’s initiatives to the public, competitors and partners. 
72. The data stored on the cloud is centralized and is stored at one single place. This makes easy data sharing and eliminates the use of employee’s personal hardware and storage devices to carry sensitive business information.  
73. Large data files can be accessed with ease and the need for sending files is eliminated with the use of cloud computing services. These help in reduction of delays due to sending and distribution of large files which are difficult to accommodate on a simple email server. 
74. Any change in this data and workloads, modifications, duplication and deletion, is recorded in the system and can be retrieved at any point in time to check the data assets on the cloud. 
75. Cloud Systems help to streamline various complex business processes, including Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Human Resources and Customer Relationship Management systems for the business. 
76. Cloud computing models eliminate the upfront costs for application software licenses for these business processes. Instead, cloud models make use of monthly fees based on the usage. 
77. Taking advantages of complex business processes is instant and quick as the installation associated with hardware, software and other devices is eliminated in a virtual cloud model. This means the implementation speed of these complex processes is lesser when compared to on-premise models. 
78. Cloud computing services help to analyse the present data models, forecast the condition of the data warehouse, and help to create and drive actionable insights for a business. This is possible with the use of the capabilities of technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 
79. With a Cloud-Based Customer Relationship Management system, a business can track customer details and updates without manual recording. One can make notes, create reminders and follow-ups,build work order assignments, set up reports, track the sales representatives and many more actions can be taken on a cloud -based CRM platform.
80. Further, CRM on cloud will help to build trust and loyalty among your customers and create a brand image in the market. This will help to achieve success in a long run with the customer database, procurement models and follow-up rates. 
81. All these processes can be unified with data features, operational processes, user experience statuses and cloud service delivery in simple steps. This ensures that the cloud users get a comprehensive view of the end-to-end process and related details in a single space. 
82.  Lot of automation features are available within a cloud system, including geo-location, fall-back and fail-back, making it easy for businesses on cloud to ensure that they spend less time with the system doing routine and manual tasks. 
83. Unlike traditional computer models of data visualization and operations using complex spreadsheets or even manual paper work, a systematic cloud infrastructure enables easy management of data storage and manipulation, which when enhanced automation, offers drastic reduction in the processes and operations that were employed earlier. 
84. Integration of Artificial Intelligence is easy in cloud systems. This fancy technology can be made to forecast trends in internal functioning and customer demands with ease based on past data.  
85. Integration of advanced technologies like blockchain, mixed reality and Internet of things is useful to develop and deploy powerful applications and build technologically superior products that give a competitive edge are possible within a cloud environment.  
86. The infrastructural advantage of cloud computing includes lesser use of physical servers (even in a hybrid cloud model) which frees up space in your office from bulky data servers. 
87. Usage of cloud systems enables legacy systems to exist with cloud models. This makes it possible for businesses to shift the workloads that are critical and specific in a cloud model while retaining bits of the system in legacy systems. This type of cloud environment arises when a business uses a hybrid model of cloud. 
88. Unlike on-premise technology settings, the cloud service and environment upscale and downscale themselves based on the business goals and IT changes.This is essential for a growing business with increased storage and workload specifications. Hence, cloud supports business growth and stabilizes the technology resources automatically based on the growth.
89. Unlike traditional data models, a cloud infrastructure can be heavily customized and personalized to suit the objectives of any business. From workload management to the type of applications, everything can be tailored to suit the business’ needs. 
90. Cloud Hosting opens up avenues to host workloads and applications on various cloud platforms. While these acts as a fallback in case of failure of one cloud platform, this also allows flexibility for the business to use the facilities and features offered by several clod providers without restricting themselves to one vendor. This kind of approach to cloud is seen in a multi-cloud model. 
91. In comparison with on-premise systems, there is lesser need to adopt for extra machinery and equipment to fulfill hardware needs. This drastically reduces IT spend and support for any business. 
92. Business innovations and, thereby, industry disruptions only come when a company pursues a new idea or strategy to restructure the way a service is being offered. With time and money constraints, many companies leave out on this innovation, especially in technology. But with cloud, one can try out new solutions and ideas with immediate configurations at minimal cost within a matter of a few hours! Hence, cloud helps in business transformation and innovation too!
93. While researching for new solutions or answering latest problems, every business can simulate the scenario in a virtual world, gather diverse data sets from past records, and use machine learning capabilities on cloud to test and analyse the results of the solution. This feat on cloud systems helps to accelerate development, analysis, and approval from several team members. 
94. With detailed AI based analysis and reports from cloud environments, a business leader can make more informed and better decisions about the technology needs as well as business necessities. 
95. A cloud-based payroll and finance management system is helpful to analyse and plan about the financial position, planning on assets and liabilities and revenue management results. This becomes a great aid when trying to get the while financial picture when making better accounting decisions. 
96. Cloud Services enable even mediocre businesses to shine in this tech-savvy world. They are given a chance to embrace business process and replicate offline business processes with ease on a cloud platform. In essence, cloud helps a business to become technologically empowered.  
97. Use of cloud technology also enhances website usability and improves website speed. This trend is replicated across all the digital assets a company hosts on a cloud platform.  
98. Cloud solutions are available to all industries and fields irrespective of the needs and goals of the business. Cloud models help many businesses in any industry to align their projects and applications with their business objectives and strategy. 
99. While using cloud systems, one also ensures that their carbon footprint is less and with infrastructural data centers eliminated, there is a great deal of advantage for the environment too!
100. Finally, the disadvantages of cloud can be overcome, controlled and tracked. So every disadvantage becomes an advantage while using cloud environments. 

Choosing the right Cloud Service Provider and perfect cloud computing services that match your needs and overcome business challenges is an integral part of the migration to a successful Cloud Infrastructure. With many competitors in the market, one is bound to get confused about the right choice. With experts like Five Minutes SST to guide you through the process, one can easily eliminate this doubt and migrate to a fully functional and successful cloud infrastructure for their organization and further Business Transformation and enhance the pace of innovation.