Characteristics of Cloud Computing

1. Agility for organizations

2. Cost reductions and centralisation of infrastructure in locations with lower costs. 3. Device and location independence, which means no maintenance, is required.

4. Pay-per-use means utilization and efficiency improvements for systems that are often only 10–20% utilized.

5. Performances are being monitored by IT experts i.e., from the service provider end.

6. Productivity increases which results in multiple users who can work on the same data simultaneously.

7. Time may be saved as information does not need to be re-entered when fields are matched

8. Availability improves with the use of multiple redundant sites

9. Scalability and elasticity via dynamic (“on-demand”) provisioning of resources on a fine-grained, self-service basis in near real-time without users having to engineer for peak loads.

10. Self-service interface.

11. Resources that are abstracted or virtualized.

12. Security can improve due to centralization of data