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Investment For The Future A Roadmap To Cloud Technology Adoption In India

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Manoj has over a decade of experience in cloud computing and he launched India's first cloud platform to help businesses reduce their heavy reliance on expensive, inflexible cloud providers.

We are living in a digital age at an accelerated pace, and businesses and organizations are shifting to online operations. Several industries had to make this transition to ensure continuity in the new normal, full of uncertainties, post-COVID. At this time, concepts like Work from Home (WFH) and Hybrid models have made workplaces go more digital, and they will certainly remain relevant in the future.

Most enterprises are investing heavily in cloud computing as part of the accelerated digital transformation. Cloud service providers are adding advanced enterprise cloud solutions to assist businesses in this fast-evolving digital era. Let’s assess some of the changes that cloud technology adoption is going to bring to the future of workplaces.

"Cloud adoption can begin at a small scale in such cases and when businesses scale up they can plan ahead and have a robust cloud infrastructure in place"

Adaptability
The growth phase of a business requires extensive capital investment for hardware upgrades and installations. A company in its early stages won’t have the budgets or the teams to have a cloud infrastructure in place. Cloud adoption can begin at a small scale in such cases and when businesses scale up they can plan ahead and have a robust cloud infrastructure in place. That’s where the role of cloud service providers becomes crucial as they understand the nature of the business, and the customer base and suggest and implement a cloud adoption strategy to suit the needs of a business. If businesses plan in advance, it can go a long way in allowing them to achieve the levels of scalability and make them quickly adapt to the changing business environment with the aid of cloud technologies.

With localizing data becoming the need of the hour, cloud service providers and businesses are investing in local data centers with end-to-end support which includes automated backups, ease of access and advanced security measures


Data Management
With hybrid work models, multiple people try to access data from different locations which becomes a challenging task for the companies. With localizing data becoming the need of the hour, cloud service providers and businesses are investing in local data centers with end-to-end support which includes automated backups, ease of access and advanced security measures. A well-managed data management strategy can allow service providers and businesses to have realtime data analytics in place and maintain consistency with data storage without any hassle.

Security
As companies adopt digital technologies, there has been a notion that cloud technology was vulnerable and data won’t be safe if stored in the cloud. Cloud providers have been around for a while, but it's only recently that they've become a popular option for businesses in different industries. Cloud providers are offering a number of features and benefits that are suited to building robust data security for businesses. With methods like two-factor authentication, stricter protocols and select user access it is easier for cloud service providers and enterprises alike to have a robust security mechanism in place to protect both consumer and business interests.

Bottom line
India's and the world's businesses globally are being modernized by cloud computing.The government’s initiatives which include Cloud Vision for India 2022 and Meghraj are aimed at benefitting small and medium-sized businesses and letting them be the early adopters of cloud.The public cloud services in our country is expected to touch $7.3 billion approximately in the next few years. It will bring more new-age capabilities like predictive modeling, self-reliant cloud services, big data and analytics to the fore and will become core in letting businesses stay relevant in the long run.