Why Do Enterprise Organizations Choose The Cloud?

In the earliest days of the cloud, adoption was driven by startups and smaller businesses eager to access enterprise-grade infrastructure without making a large capital investment. Enterprise organizations were more conservative, constrained as they were by regulatory compliance concerns and legacy deployments.

In the intervening decade, as cloud platforms matured and cloud vendors pursued enterprise IT budgets, enterprise IT spending gradually migrated to the cloud. It is estimated that around 80% of all IT budgets will be spent in the cloud within a couple of years. More than half of enterprises prefer cloud compared to on-premise data centers.

But, before cloud vendors become too complacent, it should be noted that there has been a shift in what enterprises want from the cloud. Originally seeking to reduce capital expenditure and benefit from the cloud’s agility, the enterprise now looks for cloud solutions, not just cloud platforms.

Steadfast Simplicity Clouds combine the expertise of Steadfast’s team, who have been building custom enterprise infrastructure solutions for over a decade, with cutting-edge public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms.

The cloud reduces complexity

A major driver of enterprise cloud adoption is the reduction of organizational and budgetary complexity. In the cloud, there is no need to manage hardware lifecycles, data center real estate and staff, or the power and bandwidth resources servers require.

On-demand pricing with a flat fee pricing model helps IT departments to spend their budgets effectively and avoid overruns, especially if they have the help of the cloud vendor like Steadfast to maximize the efficiency of their infrastructure investment.

Faster time-to-market and streamlined iteration

DevOps has changed the way enterprise organizations think about and use their IT infrastructure. DevOps erodes the walls between development and operations departments, allowing for more efficient information exchange, cohesive planning, and faster iteration.

With DevOps strategies like continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure automation, and experimentation, enterprise organizations get code into production more quickly and with fewer mistakes.

Cloud is an essential enabler of DevOps: the ability to deploy cloud servers on-demand and to automate infrastructure makes DevOps possible, reducing wait-times and complexity while increasing productivity.

According to a recent report from Puppet, businesses that adopt the DevOps approach spend 22 percent less time on unplanned work and rework. They deploy to production 200 times more frequently and have three times lower change failure rates.

The enterprise wants solutions

As Chris Wilder, and analyst for Moor Insights and Strategy has written:

“Enterprises are now looking to cloud service providers (CSPs), public or otherwise, to solve specific business problems, rather than just offsetting CAPEX and driving incremental change” Cloud migration can be risky and expensive if it doesn’t run smoothly. Enterprise organizations want to partner with vendors who can help them with compliance, privacy, and security issues.

They want insight into server utilization and cloud spending. Put simply, enterprise organizations prefer vendors that can provide a complete package of infrastructure hosting solutions.

Steadfast’s managed security services and regulatory compliance bundles help enterprise organizations manage risk. We make sure you aren’t spending more than you need to with routine resource utilization monitoring. Steadfast’s transparent flat-rate billing and simple cost structure means you can budget accurately, minimize spending, and avoid cost overruns.

Steadfast Simplicity Clouds are designed to help large businesses successfully migrate to the cloud. Our infrastructure experts will work with your IT team to build custom public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms tailored to your business’s needs.