The Cloud – Many Hidden Benefits
If you are planning to move to the cloud business plan 
is the first step and often a requirement for most organizations. That plan will contain expected outcomes. The success of the move to the cloud will then be judged by if those outcomes materialize. In this post we explore what most organizations put into those plans.
The post takes a look at the unexpected outcomes organizations, that have jumped to the cloud, are seeing they did not include in their original plans. Lets call those the hidden benefits of the cloud.
The general expected outcomes
Almost every company starts their journey looking into the cloud as a money saving exercise. 
This makes sense as it is rare for investment to happen without some payback expectation. Investments in the cloud are no different.
Costs organizations generally factor into that business case, that they hope cloud can help with, can include many things but often these 4 are always present:
- New hardware capital expenditure as things scale.
- Maintenance capital expenditure around existing hardware (including any extended or special warranties).
- Operational expenditure around running a physical location (buildings, cooling, electricity and more) – could also be a capital expenditure if they have to buy the property outright.
- Capital and/or operational expenditure focused on support and maintenance of parts of the software stack (applying hotfixes, having access to technical support etc).
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