Crime in Literature Capitalizing on Elastic Computing

Aside from its potential to integrate and aggregate a host of resources and technologies, Cloud Computing can most prominently benefit the enterprise through the enabling of Elastic Computing.

Elastic Computing is the utilization of the Cloud's nearly limitless scalability to provision resources on demand and at scale without conventional architectural concerns associated with doing so on-premise such as:

Scaling Up and Down -- In physical environments, substantially adding or subtracting resources requires reconfiguring one's architecture to do so -- which is time consuming. Moreover, it is possible that after reconfiguring architecture to scale up, scaling back down again can require even more time than the former process, if doing so is even possible.

Storage -- Storage in on-premise environments is significantly more costly than Cloud-based storage, and was the principle reason that the philosophy of minimizing data within a physical warehouse was derived in order to reduce storage costs.

Network and Bandwidth -- One of the primary issues associated with scaling in physical environments is that doing so requires attaining greater and lesser amounts of bandwidth and accommodating a degree of strain on conventional architecture that is virtually non-existent when utilizing Cloud capabilities.

In comparison, the myriad positives associated with Elastic Computing include:

Increased Speed -- By provisioning resources when one needs them for specific...