Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

Other benefits of the cloud

The first benefit of cloud computing is obvious from all things previously written: it's easier to maintain and manage.

With the cloud there are many areas of expertise you don't need to provide yourself; the cloud service provider manages these thing for you. But this can be kind of a trap—cloud resources are not self-managed and you still need IT professionals who will manage and maintain your resources and keep them in good health. These are different kinds of IT professionals than in a local data center, but we still need people who understand core IT. If you are using IaaS, you still need a Windows Server Administrator (or Linux Server Administrator, depending on your preferences). If you are using databases, ...