Capacity
The cloud provides the norms for storing very enormous volumes of data. This is necessary given the extensive datasets that require to be processed as part of maintenance operations, including the processing of historic information.
Scalability
Cloud computing furnishes cost-effective scalability, which is essential when dealing with the fast and continually-growing part of maintenance datasets, containing data from sensors and business information systems.
Reliability
Cloud infrastructures deliver high redundancy and trustworthiness. This is necessary to provide the continuity and graceful implementation of maintenance and asset management applications.
Elasticity
A key aspect of cloud services is their capacity to optimize the use of computing resources, by assigning more storage and processing capability during times of peak demand. This optimization takes place automatically and elastically and does not depend on human intervention for provisioning or de-provisioning computing resources.
Quality of Service
The cloud provides access to the needed amount of computing resources, which assures low latency in the data processing. Overall, it provides a high-quality service.
Pay-as-you-go and pay-as-you-grow
The integration of maintenance data in the cloud releases the demand for costly upfront investments (i.e. capital expenses) in computing infrastructures. Rather, the cloud allows plant owners, plant operators and tools agents to habilitate capital expenses to monthly bills (i.e. operational expenses).
