“There’s not one enterprise today that doesn’t have a cloud strategy,” said Terremark Chairman and CEO Manuel D. “Manny” Medina. He later gave one example: If a retailer’s website needs to handle more customers for December, it doesn’t need to buy and install more server computers just to handle that temporary high load of visitors. The computers are expensive, and they wouldn’t be running at full capacity all year, so it would be a waste.
Enter the cloud.
That retailer who uses cloud computing doesn’t need to buy more computers when companies like Terremark treat data storage like a utility. Just like when you need more power or more water, it’ll always be there. You’ll just get charged at the end of the month for using more.
