There are lots of companies that are now moving their businesses and IT infrastructure to cloud providers, either completely or in part. They are reaching this stage because they are convinced that it is the future in terms of infrastructural setup. A survey was conducted that concluded that by 2019 65% of businesses will have moved to cloud.
In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:
- Companies moving to cloud
- Infrastructure driving factors
- Data locality driving factors
- New requirements driving factors
- Design consideration
- Open source versus commercial
- Commodity hardware versus purpose built
- Cloud versus on-premises
- Application architecture
- Cost
Let's first start with some discussion on the driving factors due to which companies are moving to cloud infrastructures.
