- Lower cost
- Easier for end user
- Easier for administrators
- Easier to integrate with on premise systems
- Greater breadth and depth of services
- Better industry leadership
- Better pace of new service/feature delivery
- Better quality of technical support
- Improved security capabilities
- Better security management features
- Better compute performance
- Better storage performance
- Better network performance
- Broader geographic footprint
- More reliable
- Ability to deploy more rapidly
- Easier to scale up or down
- Easier to do business with
- Easier to find skilled staff in this platform
- Our previous experience with / relationship with the provider
- Better place for development
- Easier to understand pricing
- More compatible with my private virtual/cloud infrastructure
- More suitable for Microsoft applications, such as Exchange
- The provider's knowledge of our business
- Complies better with regulations