What is the advantage of cloud computing?

In many cases, it is a question of cost. By taking advantage of the cloud, overall IT expenditures may be reduced with a lower cost of hardware, software, infrastructure and personnel. This tends to be the driving force for many companys to move to the cloud.

There are also disadvantages that are often overlooked or intentionally left unstated by those offering cloud services. A loss of your internet connection will bring those hosted services to a halt. With locally maintained services your workers can still work. If you are concerned with privacy regulations regarding your data, you need to take care since you cannot be 100% sure of what country your data is even being stored in and the rules of that country may open up your data in ways that could endanger the company’s legal standing.

There are probably other factors to consider, but you should not only look at the advantages offered by anything, but the disadvantages as well in order to fully understand the impact of the proposed changes.