Clouding the Issue? Facts and Myths About Cloud Computing

Cloud costs more in the long run
It depends how you work it out. I could make a convincing demonstration either way with persuasive charts and numbers, but the greatest benefit of cloud is that it allows you to focus your resources and energies on your mission, not on IT. When you work out the costs of buying and maintaining servers, upgrades, power consumption, etc., it’s easy to illustrate that cloud can cost less over time.