1. Efficiency / Cost Reduction
By using cloud infrastructure, you don’t have to spend huge amounts of money on purchasing and maintaining equipment. This drastically reduces CapEx costs.  The Cloud also reduces costs related to downtime. Since downtime is rare in cloud systems, this means you don’t have to spend time and money on fixing potential issues related to downtime.

2. Scalability
Different companies have different IT needs — a large enterprise of 1000+ employees won’t have the same IT requirements as a start-up. Using the Cloud is a great solution because it enables the enterprise efficiently — and quickly — scale up/down their IT departments, according to business demands.  Cloud-based solutions are ideal for businesses with growing or fluctuating bandwidth demands. This level of agility can give businesses using cloud computing a real advantage over competitors.  This scalability minimizes the risks associated with in-house operational issues and maintenance. Scalability is probably the greatest advantage of the cloud.

3. Data Security
One of the major concerns of every business, regardless of size and industry, is the security of its data. Data breaches and other cybercrimes can devastate a company’s revenue, customer loyalty, and brand positioning.  The Cloud offers many advanced security features that guarantee that data is securely stored and handled.  Most enterprises supplement these protections with added security measures of their own to bolster cloud data protection and tighten access to sensitive information in the cloud.

4. Competitive Edge
Not every company will migrate to the cloud, at least not yet. However, organizations that adopt cloud find that many benefits that cloud offers positively impact their business.  Cloud adoption increases every year since companies realize that it offers them access to world-class enterprise technology.   Using a cloud-based solution, an enterprise can prevent a lot of problems that plague organizations that rely on on-premises infrastructure.

5. Disaster Recovery
Data loss is a major concern for all organizations, along with data security. Storing your data in the cloud guarantees that data is always available.  Cloud-based services provide quick data recovery for all kinds of emergency scenarios — from natural disasters to power outages.  Cloud infrastructure can also help you with loss prevention.