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Most companies that operate in a cutthroat business environment strive to accomplish greater flexibility and set higher standards for maintenance that their rivals cannot outdo. The onus is on the technical teams to pursue the level of innovation that the business needs to scale up. In this context, technology becomes a very critical factor to their competitive advantage- something they cannot afford to compromise on.
Speaking of cloud adoption, companies look at a few factors before they want to take the plunge. Typical benefits of cloud like reduced IT spend and great flexibility have always kept companies interested in adopting cloud. However, the landscape has changed and continues to change. It’s no longer about cost and flexibility.
Even companies that avoid cloud have started considering the risks of not implementing one, and understood they cannot afford to pay the price of avoiding cloud. Considering the level of investment companies make in putting together existing hardware and software, why do they think it is necessary to set up a cloud environment? Let’s find out.
Cloud Promotes Innovation
Cloud certainly makes a difference if you are an innovation-centric company. It can, to a great extent, reduce necessary hardware maintenance which becomes the vendor’s problem rather than the customer’s. Depending on the kind of configuration, it might save the customer a lot of time and effort required to maintain the software and operating system as well. For instance, a company with a completely private cloud setup will be able to allocate a good chunk of its resources away from typical maintenance needs, and distribute it for innovation. The cloud help IT teams move work from one location (server) to another, making a short work of maintenance, and thereby drastically reducing the downtime associated with such work. This frees up a lot of time and resources that the company can use for innovation. Now that’s a stark difference!
Cloud Allows Better Response to Business Requirements
As noted earlier, some companies adopt cloud citing its cost advantage but there are companies out there that purely believe in cloud’s ability to help them better respond to changing business landscape. C-suite executives and decision makers of companies were once apprehensive of the risk of data being lost or breached, the risk of services becoming unavailable, and the risk of assigning power to a cloud provider. But they have started to think beyond the risks now. The rate at which the customer needs are changing and industries are converging has made it challenging for companies to keep up pace.
In a bid to respond to changing business conditions and to make the most of every opportunity to raise market share, a lot of companies now leverage the cloud to optimize operations, improve offerings, and counteract the risk of getting left behind in the rat race. Such companies now count on cloud technology to steer them through safely through the changing business landscape. And, cloud does the trick here.
Where is cloud headed?
Several organizations provide a set of unique applications and services governed by precise and rigid SLAs. With everything going skywards these days, such companies have started to look at deploying private cloud in order to take their business agility and service capabilities to unprecedented levels.
Though private cloud has gained huge traction over the years, hybrid cloud has started causing enough buzz in the market of late. Analysts say that whatever cloud platform a company has set up, it is more than likely to set up a hybrid cloud in near future.
