The pandemic (Covid-19) impacted most businesses and organisations worldwide. In many cases, businesses experience difficulties. Others can maintain what they have, and others are lucky to find a solution to cope.
The situation made the Cloud prominent in most businesses worldwide. It has been introduced and significantly changed individuals and organisations’ behaviour when delivering different services and within their organisation through the internet.
The Cloud
It is the availability of data, programs, applications, servers, and other computer system resources in the cloud and can be accessed using the internet.
One of the most recognised cloud features and a well-known reason businesses migrate to the cloud is its storage capacity and accessibility. But that is not all. You can take many things when you decide to migrate to the cloud.
Migration to the cloud
You can choose from services available When migrating to the cloud to ensure that you meet your objective in using the cloud and have the facility that fits your needs.
Cloud services. It is how the cloud will work and manage your data and applications
| Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) | Platform as a service (PaaS) | Software as a service (SaaS) |
| It serves as a virtual data centre and provides the traditional data centre features. It also offers a pay-as-you-go basis. | Mainly supports software or application developments users. It provides a good platform and tools for software developers in creating applications. | Most used cloud service as it can be easily accessed over the internet and is popular with small businesses. |
| Servers and storage Networking firewalls/security | Operating systems, development tools, database management, business analytics | Hosted applications. |
| Microsoft Azure, Google computer Engine, Amazon Web Service (AWS) | Windows Azure, Google App Engine, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Force.com | Dropbox, HubSpot, Mail Chimp, Google workspace (G-Suite), Salesforce. |
Cloud locations. It is where your cloud server is placed. There are four types of cloud locations and
below are their differences.
| Public | Private | Hybrid | Community | |
| Suitable | Supports SMEs and large businesses | Intended for single enterprise or organisation | Both use public and private clouds | Different companies with the same interests. A hybrid form of private cloud |
| Host | A cloud computing company or provider maintains infrastructure | Infrastructure is managed exclusively for an organisation or by an organisation. | An organisation manages them for different organisations. | They were managed by one or more organisations in the community, a third party or both. |
| Cost | Cheaper | Excessive cost | Costly | Costly |
| Security | Low | Most Secured | Moderate | Secured |
Migration to the cloud benefits
- Cost Reduction – You will save a lot when migrating to the cloud. You will refrain from buying extra servers, storage devices, and other equipment following the drop of establishment and space acquisition for your data centres, electricity, taxes, etc. Everything will be up in the cloud and provide you with the same data, information, and service you used to get and have. It also offers “pay for what you use”, which means that no extra cost will be charged to you that you are not using.
- Accessibility – When on the cloud, your data is precisely right inside your pocket. You can easily access it if there is the internet and a device. Immediate updates and upgrades are also available to help customers and employees increase functionality.
- Security – Each cloud host’s top priority is to carefully monitor the safety of their customers’ data, programs, and applications. Cloud-based services have different encryptions and security settings designed to protect customers from cyber-attacks.
- Reliability – Others might wonder how a cloud can be more dependable than those on-site servers and systems you have direct and physical access to. However, clouds have different automation that enforces security, configurations, policies, and access controls that will immediately act up when suspicious activity or unrecognised user is detected.
- Flexibility – The ability to access and update everything in the cloud makes you work more and faster anywhere you are if you have an internet connection. You do not need to sacrifice your health by working outside and working with others to do what needs to be done. It will also make the business focus more on things that need to be done and have the cloud responsible for other automated works in the servers.
- Disaster Recovery – Cloud is also very responsible when it comes to adversity. It helps regain functionality for its tenants and keeps them from unforeseen and natural disasters.
With the help of the cloud, many of them established a work-from-home setup to continue businesses services. It became a gratifying thing to them and the best solution.
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