1. It dramatically lowers the cost of entry for smaller firms trying to benefit from compute-intensive business analytics that were hitherto available only to the largest of corporations. These computational exercises typically involve large amounts of computing power for relatively short amounts of time,3 and cloud computing makes such dynamic provisioning of resources possible. Cloud computing also represents a huge opportunity to many third-world countries that have been so far left behind in the IT revolution — as we discuss later, some cloud computing
providers are using the advantages of a cloud platform to enable IT services in countries that would have traditionally lacked the
resources for widespread deployment of IT services.