The cloud, like the clouds you see up in the sky, is now ubiquitous. This isn’t surprising given how it enables you to access anything digital from the Internet — from simple Word and PDF documents to a variety of apps to entire software and services, such as the full Office 365 suite, Salesforce and Cisco WebEx. You can even choose to use public, private or hybrid clouds depending on your organisation’s needs, thus making it more appealing to explore the enterprise-level use-cases of the cloud.

On so many levels then, business and the cloud are, pardon the pun, a match made in heaven. That’s due to the many benefits of migrating to the cloud. The most notable of these benefits are as follows: