Nowadays companies moving towards cloud computing isn’t just a smart move for innovative business but also have become a necessary move. Let me explain to you how in detail. In the early days, the goal of the business was really simple which is to continue workforce operation. But now due to this pandemic, we are made to follow social distancing due to which it forced the retail, banking, education and many more sectors of industries to mostly go online and expand their offering to engage with clients. So all business owners wanted to maintain and manage their clients by providing fast, secure and robust foundation through online and on further study people came to know cloud could get that job easily done so people adopted and harnessed the power of the cloud. This is the reason for the rapid growth of the Cloud. Let me tell you some hidden facts about the cloud.
#1 Cloud Boosts Speed and Agility
Just completed the book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and the author states that businesses are evolving at an ever-accelerating pace, so it’s now or never. After giving it a thought I came to an understanding about what the author was trying to say. He was trying to say that every business is under pressure to respond more quickly to the changing business environment. Unfortunately, classic IT processes are a poor match for today's speed. Classic/Provisioning resources commonly take over weeks or maybe months thereby showing the reflexes of the business. But with cloud computing, resources are available in minutes, which means companies can respond or even come to know about new technologies and market developments much more rapidly.
For instance, let's take blackberry in 2007 they ruled the smartphone market during that time apple’s biggest seller was iPod. And by 2014 blackberry was at the verge of bankruptcy but apple was selling millions of iPhone’s and captured the smartphone empire from Blackberry.
#2 Perpetuation of Innovation
Success in today's business environment requires more than just speed. Just as critical is innovation- the ability to develop new offerings and evaluate their potential market adoption and then roll out the successful ones while cutting the failures. Cloud computing is a much better match than the traditional IT approach. Because resources are available so quickly and it is easy to experiment with new offerings very quickly. Which means the cloud can adopt any technology easily.
#3 Helps Manage Costs
Another reality of traditional IT infrastructure is how expensive it is. Obviously, infrastructure requires physical resources such as servers, storage and network. Besides that also we’ve got a lot of expenses like manpower, power and facility. At most of the IT companies, the infrastructure isn’t efficient. Procurement is done inefficiently and in a small amount, so the costs of the resources are really high than you could expect. Operational processes are not automated so labour costs are also high.
The big cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft buy in bulk. Think of them as a Walmart of computer resources. And because they operate at such a scale they are forced to invest in process automation. They couldn’t/cannot afford that much manpower to manage their vast servers manually. Those lower costs flow through to smaller organisations. Most IT companies can achieve significant saving by using cloud computing, although to be fair, not everyone agrees with my perspective. Most IT organisations cannot meet the cost of the big cloud providers.
#4 Backup and Recovery
Information security continues to be a major hurdle for small businesses. Threats evolve quickly and complete defence of critical infrastructure is beyond the capabilities of small IT organisations. A survey taken in 2017 states that only 30% of business could remain profitable for more than 8months if they lost their critical data. Cloud-based data storage helps address security concerns by building redundancy into a companies information management approach. A hybrid system that backs up local data to the cloud in real-time offers protection against security breaches allowing companies to reduce their dependency on physical infrastructure, storage devices and manual backups.
#5 Like It or Not It Is The Future Of Your Workspace
When employees come to know that cloud computing is the future. There will be two types of groups one who understands it and the other who criticizes it just because they don’t understand them and they don’t want their skills stuck in obsolete technology, because that limits their career prospects. So if an employee fails to embrace cloud his future is to leave the company with follows cloud and join a company that embraces and stuck in the past.
Therefore, to ensure you have a motivated IT organization, it is essential to implement a forward-looking protocol that involves cloud adoption. Saying in a much simpler way building your skill in both current and future technological trends.
Well, there you have the 5 golden reasons to why you should use cloud and why this tech particularly is growing. Demands on IT organisation is only going to grow so it’s time for you to prepare about future trends and technology, if your only starting now during this lockdown, don’t hesitate. You can’t afford any longer, Ciao.
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