Cloud Technology will Make your Enterprise Future Ready
📅 21st Sep 2022

Data is helping enterprises in many ways and making them future-ready in all possible ways. While data is increasingly used to help enterprises make predictions about the future, some disruptions are totally unforeseen. There can be some wars, natural disasters, turmoil or industrial actions that can cause disruptions and have an enormous impact on our business.

The Covid-19 pandemic is perhaps the most recent example of how impactful an unforeseen disaster can be. It is also a classic example of how enterprises already using cloud technology were the quickest to move to the new landscape and why they survived. All thanks to the cloud, that made them able to quickly adopt remote working and helped them keep operations running. Retailers also benefitted in this case by switching to online sales and implementing online deliveries.

Enterprise face small challenges frequently, while the big challenges, like pandemics, don't come very often. Cloud migration helps put themselves in a much better position to quickly adapt to change. Along with the cloud-based software there were a few more remote working platforms that enabled company's system with the home worker when work from home became a necessity.

There are so many open-source, instantly deployable applications like big data, automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning that are created for the cloud. Cloud infrastructure in enterprises makes it easy to deal with the changes. Also, there are no license fees to pay and no worries about whether the app will work in the cloud, as it's cloud-native.

The market is digitizing every day; therefore, enterprises need to keep updating the hardware they use to deliver the services and experiences their customers expect. Also, capital investment which is needed to acquire that hardware will be something which needs to be done regularly.

While cloud technology completely removes the need to invest in new infrastructure. That burden is taken on by the cloud provider, which, to attract and retain customers of its own, has to continually upgrade to better hardware. That means the enterprises that migrated to the cloud will always be assured of the best performance and reliability while growing without worrying about it.

Scalability is known for catering towards unexpected demands. Whatever computing resources the company will need, whether for traffic, processing or other workloads, cloud's scalability feature will serve that without crashing.

Achieving this level of scalability inside an enterprise is a challenge, which includes the purchase of expensive hardware that can be kept redundant for any unexpected excessive demand. It's a huge amount of money to spend on equipment that can only be used occasionally. Also, companies need to wait for it to boot again and brought online until its resources can be used, as it's likely to remain cold until it is needed.

Achieving scalability in the cloud is way more practical and affordable. Service providers have enormous data centers that the amount of scaling up an enterprise can do is almost limitless. In cloud services, additional resources are also available at the click of a button as soon as the company requires them. And, the most important thing is that cloud services can be used on a pay-as-you-go basis, which ultimately reduces the cost as the demand reduces, and make it far more cost-effective than purchasing a server that's rarely used.

Dedicated servers have the power to deliver significant processing power, but as they are physical machines, they will fail. And, these kinds of failures can cause discontinuity.

While in the cloud if hardware fails, the virtual cloud server is easily transferred to a different machine without service interruption, making it more available. If a data center fails, there is a backup data center, at a different location, ready to continue. With today's technology, we can expect 100% uptime guarantee through cloud in an enterprise.

In the last two years, the cloud has emerged as one of the most successful technical innovations. It evolved into a trend that encourages creativity as well as a standard that allows for greater flexibility and cost savings. With cloud services continuing to play an important role in practically all corporate operations, there is no doubt that the cloud is the way of the future. As a result, new cloud-native trends will undoubtedly develop in this vast digital ecosystem of varied and dynamic architecture.