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Cloud computing has become a major discussion thread in the IT world, but it has been redefined in recent years to speak to the increasing number of deployment scenarios – and their practical uses for business workloads.

The business benefits of cloud computing are clear: the ability to leverage virtualized infrastructure for greater efficiency, and to be able to dial up — or dial down — a specific service, based directly on business need. Rapid provisioning is a key element in supporting this scalability and elasticity. In this era of economic constraints, the ability to "stand up" a new cloud service, and then use it only as long as it's needed, is a valuable business attribute of leveraging cloud computing within the enterprise.