Why Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing adoption is often driven more by its business and operational model’s advantages and benefits than its “technology” or “location” factors.

The benefit of the cloud computing model is that it gives another option and more choice in how computing resources can be provided and consumed by a business to suit its operating model most appropriately.

Cloud computing-based resources can be hybrid, so they can be located in the cloud platform provider’s or customer’s facilities. In the case of the Azure Stack portfolio (HCI, Edge, and Hub), the cloud provider platform can offer the control plane and operations platform elements.

Adopting cloud computing also does not have to be a binary decision between a fully public cloud or a more traditional on-premises computing model. Your compute resources and data may remain on-premises, and you may use the “cloud” for the control and operations...