To understand how a cloud deployment model can translate to significant financial savings, consider sites that experience seasonal variation in their levels of Web traffic. Tax companies, for example, have more traffic between January and April than between May and December, and media sites will experience peaks in Web traffic based on current events. Using an on-premise only model, companies are forced to manage the hardware, infrastructure and bandwidth associated with supporting peak volume during non-peak periods. With a cloud deployment, companies can throttle these variables up or down based on their actual month-by-month usage. This flexible deployment model enables companies to ramp up server capacity during periods of increased traffic, without having to pay for peak charges during off-peak times.
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