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With any transformation, there are drawbacks and benefits. What are some benefits to cloud transformation (besides cost)?

Amy Hylden Anderson
It's all about agility and speed to market. We work with thousands of small developers who now have access to enterprise class IT.

Brendan Wright
the ability to scale - cloud lets small companies act big, but it can also let big companies act small. for example launching new sites on cloud and bypassing legacy infra.

Eric Saint-Marc
Choice as a benefit shows no boundaries in most cases, and will only be limited by your OPEX budget.

Brian Fanzo
Scale your IT compute needs faster & Elasticity are huge advantages of the cloud!

Amy Hylden Anderson
Those small developers and build and test like large organizations when they have access to cloud.

Brian Fanzo
We live in a real-time, On-Demand, Mobile & Connected world.. There is no longer time to buy, unbox, rack & stack equipment to handle new features and needs!

Brendan Wright
the ability to deploy solutions is much faster on cloud - we see customers deploying in days, legacy solutions might be weeks or months or quarters - as timeline goes up risk of budget and delivery slip also do.

Amy Hylden Anderson
We are also seeing a real growth in Continuous Delivery techniques, which automates all the application delivery steps that happen after "code complete." Cloud gives developers access to more of these tools, like Puppet and Chef, without lockin.

Eric Saint-Marc
Scale, Flexibility and elasticity, again #Cloud offering properly architected with the right strategy will help companies of any size drive engagement and positive sentiments towards products, good or services

Brian Fanzo
Can't hide from the fact that Shadow IT is often the driver for cloud as every department is already seeing the value and using cloud solutions because it is what they need to get the job done!

Brendan Wright
Other benefits at the SaaS level is the specialization of the IT services supporting the solution. Instead of one DBA supporting many apps, you have many DBAs supporting one app.

Gurvinder Ahluwalia
To codify and consume a business process in or on a digital delivery platform - and modify it without performing an IT frontal lobotomy.

Brendan Wright
Also at SaaS level - not having to manage updates to software/versioning. Previously huge wasteful expense. Basically as a SaaS customer you only worry about your data.