LockDown lesson for software industries : Move your business to cloud for business continuity

It’s an unprecedented time with the almost entire world in a locked-down situation. The very first thing that this pandemic situation taught the industries is how to maintain business continuity. In the future, every sales call, or every deal agreement will bear a clause about business continuity. Darwinian used “Survival of the fittest” to explain the concept of evolution. Well, in the software industry too, this is valid and what better than the cloud that can make you fittest to survive in this tough time. If you are still using on-prem application, probably it’s the time to consider moving to the cloud. Five reasons why the cloud should be your first choice to deploy your applications. Read on.

• Higher operational efficiency: Cloud helps to increase productivity and efficiency as by this system, a person can work anytime from anywhere in the world. It helps connecting team members with great operational efficiency. Take the example of lockdown. Without enabling cloud, the majority of the software companies could not have continued their regular operations. Cloud saved them, literally. Moreover, the infrastructure and environment is maintained by cloud service providers, organizations are not required to hire professionals for maintaining the same locally or on-site
• Smarter Disaster Recovery solutions: For business continuity, organizations need to have a dedicated disaster recovery team. Cloud interface provides great ease in maintenance as well as disaster recovery for the implementation of robust business continuity plans.
• Enhanced security: People will probably debate, but I will still say, the cloud can provide better security than you’re on-prem data centers. Implementing concepts like VPC (Virtual Private Cloud ) you have your private network in a public network and only authorized users with a designated IP address can access it. What more, cloud service providers frequently run security audits to ensure tight security and automatically push security patches whenever required. So you do not even need to worry about the security features of the infra.
• Fast deployment: Needless to say, the deployment of applications over the cloud is much faster than on-prem. As interface supported by the cloud can be accessed from anywhere, it helps in the easy and fast deployment of resources and applications. No extra additions to the IT Infrastructure is required for the deployment.
• Enhances Scalability: Finally, with the cloud, you do not need to worry about your growing customer base or caller numbers. The auto-scaling capability of the cloud will make sure that the infra caters to the load no matter what. For example, if your call center runs on the cloud and you expect an increased number of callers during thanksgiving, the cloud is capable to tackle it at ease. On migrating to Cloud computing, businesses save a lot of expenses at times of upscaling. Downscaling doesn’t provide any loss of infrastructure or IT equipment.

To wrap it up, online businesses need a scalable and robust platform for smooth operational purposes. The adaptive, scalable and versatile platform of cloud computing can help online businesses to store a higher amount of data with a greater level of accessibility, availability, and security. Choose cloud for your business today and ensure peace of mind.