Why cloud computing?

Cloud computing adoption is often driven more by the advantages and benefits of its business and operational model than its technology model or location factors.

Cloud computing doesn't have to be a binary decision between a fully public cloud and no public cloud. The benefit of the cloud computing model is that it gives you a choice in how computing resources can be provided and consumed by a business to suit its operating model in the most appropriate way.

Cloud computing-based resources can be in the service provider's facilities or the customer facilities in the case of the Azure Stack portfolio (Edge, HCI, Hub), being a private cloud. Therefore, you can have on-premises cloud computing resources; it doesn't always have to mean resources in a provider's facility that are shared with others and accessible over a network, but that is the most typical deployment model, that is, the public cloud.

The core benefits of the cloud computing...