The novel corona virus has caught us napping. While professional economists and experts continue to evaluate the impact on global economy; this much is clear – the domino effect will percolate more than anticipated. CIOs, business spearheads and technology mavens across the world are swotting their decisions in this period of unpredictability.
Never before has there ever been a time when instant accessibility of IT properties enabled by the cloud would become a prerequisite. The swift response to COVID-19 pandemic empowering millions to work remotely has left everyone imagining a world without cloud. Any enterprise that is ambivalent about shifting to cloud needs to embrace cloud adoption procedure instantly.
At the end of the day, the proceedings of 2020 have acted as a catalyst for cloud adoption. Cloud-based applications like virtual learning and collaboration tools are in demand to keep businesses afloat through the COVID-19 contagion. In fact, the corona virus emergency has accentuated the need for enterprises to not only digitize the flow of work but move them towards the clouds so as to remain completely operation.
For large organizations with huge budgets, implementing various stages of cloud computing has been more feasible as yet. Irrespective of the scale, resources can be assigned to accelerate migrations, while the talent to supervise these initiatives can be employed without much hassle.
For small and medium businesses, the transition to cloud has been largely watchful, driven more by necessity, taking into consideration the price and scale of the task and the budgets involved with public cloud.
But more often than not it boils down to a deficiency of know-how regarding the probable benefits, and how they can achieve accessibility and flexibility, predominantly due to availability of choice in cloud computing services.
Powering business
With a treasure of cloud computing services across Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), companies can explore the services that best fit their operations without massive hardware or software expenditures. Companies can subscribe to cloud power – which can be mounted up and down – as per their requirements and configured to meet their demands.
For that price, the service provider can lever the hardware maintenance, software mending and updates in the background. Small enterprises, consequently, consume less of their valued time and limited possessions on tech, and focus more on the processes to steer their progress and consumer experience.
Connected from anywhere
The landscape of cloud simplifies access and synchronous collaboration from anyplace with an internet connection. This enhances operational productivity and configuration on the hop.
With the benefit of cloud storage services, employees can swiftly access the data and information they want and guarantee that everybody is kept updated from their location.
Additional Security
Small businesses, unprepared with cybersecurity, often fall prey to common misapprehensions that their data is secured only within their four walls. Nothing could be further from the truth. All data is vulnerable if the on-site servers gets hacked or a hard drive disappears. While small and medium enterprises have an important part to play in data security, cloud services have additional security measures in stores to safely secure the data.
Cloud service providers are substantially more difficult to hack and shield the system from attempts to phishing and malware attacks, which can bring any business to its knees.
Cloud Services are repeatedly shaking up the industry. In the last three years, the industry witnessed a compound annual growth rate of 24 per cent, a figure which is likely to get bettered this year. There has been never a better time for SMBs to make a quantum leap. Eventually, cloud computing is the answer for technology woes.
For those interested, IBM is hosting its first ever SMB Cloud Series, Asia – Business Resiliency and New Ways of Working – a collaborative platform for the start-up and SMB ecosystem that showcases innovative solutions built on cloud and how this is accelerating the pace of transformation. You can find out more about the latest products, offerings, and technology by attending their virtual conference scheduled for 4th June 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Here are details about the webinar: https://www.smeventure.com/new/ibm-smb-asia/edm12/
Written by,
Prasad Patkar, Editor