A Guide to Public Cloud: An Inside-Out Approach for Extending Your Data Center to the Cloud

Special events or acquisitions can cause spikes in demand, requiring the business to ramp up resources and then reduce them. As your business grows, you must be able to provide the capacity to meet both predictable and unpredictable situations.

An IT strategy should consider all available options to meet the demand for IT resources. Being capped at the physical boundaries of the data center doesn’t make sense when you have rich cloud options available that can be integrated into your overall IT strategy to meet demand.

Public cloud allows you to augment your internal data center resources, providing a flexible and cost-effective solution to meet a variety of business issues, including:
• On-premises capacity limitations
• Limited IT staff and budget
• Lack of in-house IT cloud experience
• Seasonal or unpredictable usage patterns
• Rapid new application development requirements
• Additional geographical locations