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Explain the power of the cloud

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Explain the power of the cloud

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- [Instructor] I'd like to introduce you to Leslie. Now, Leslie runs a medium-sized business that collects and organizes data for the hospitality industry. And she needs to make this data available to her clients all over the world. So her company has decided to create an application that will make their data available over the internet. Now, Leslie and her leadership team sat down one day to plan this new application and they realized they needed a lot of computing infrastructure, things like servers and network connected disks, all kinds of networking equipment, they needed server racks, lots of things. They also discovered that they needed a pretty large IT staff to manage all of this infrastructure and to troubleshoot and fix any problems that might pop up. Now, after running all the numbers, they discovered that this application was going to cost them approximately $1.1 million per year. Now, once they finished paying…

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