What are the top 3 benefits of cloud computing?
Here are my musings:The top 3 benefits will vary by customer size, complexity, maturity, market vertical etc. What do I mean by this?
Well, for an SMB, lower cost may be number 1, but they'll only get that if they buy from public cloud - they won't achieve lower cost if they build a private cloud from scratch until they reach a critical mass..
For a large organisation's dev and test teams, agility, low cost of entry, ability to tear the environment down when they've finished etc., will be a great benefit. If they're doing that in a public cloud offering, that could well be acceptable for that particular use case. But for a production environment in the same organisation's highly regulated market place (where regulators are notoriously difficult to pin down when they use the term "adequate"), a private on site solution (cloud or not) could be the most cost effective and / or lowest risk approach to meeting regulatory requirements.
For a large and complex organisation that needs agility, that might be their number 1 benefit, but it doesn't apply if the main business of a large and complex organisation is doing the same business activity over and over again and they're busy refining their processes to eek out every last cent of efficiency. However, that organisation might choose to sell their super-efficient process as a "cloud" offering to other companies...
And so it goes on. I wish you luck with your video, but I do find that there are many attempts to simplify "the cloud" that business execs are exposed to (e.g. airline magazines) which really don't cover off the basics of going back to what the organisation needs to achieve and then mapping the right approach specific to their needs, be that public, private, hybrid or no cloud at all. Missing this fundamental point and doing cloud because an article, video or other source says you should do cloud because its a "good thing" is a mistake.
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