Key Ways the Cloud can Benefit Businesses amidst the Pandemic

By Apac CIO Outlook | Thursday, March 25, 2021

Businesses can no longer afford to let important documents get lost in endless email chains these days. Cloud-based document sharing is an excellent way to ensure that key pieces of content can be viewed and accessed by anyone who wants to see them without having to dig for hours.

Fremont, CA: Cloud computing has long been predicted to transform the business landscape. Cisco expects that by next year, 94 percent of all workloads will be handled in the cloud, and the COVID-19 crisis is hastening the process.

As the coronavirus wreaks havoc on the business world, your company cannot afford to be unprepared. In today's fast-paced tech world, old server-based computing options can be slow. By implementing cloud computing, you are ensuring that your organization has the digital tools it requires to face whatever challenges may arise in the future.

padding: 5px;More and more businesses are being compelled to go online, but not all of them have the necessary digital infrastructure in place.

Let us look at how the cloud can benefits businesses:

Document Sharing

Working together is difficult and important than ever as COVID-19 sends workers home. Fortunately, document-sharing platforms have begun to respond to the pandemic, with Dropbox, the market leader, integrating many of its features with Zoom to enable seamless collaboration. Apps like Dropbox or Google Docs make it easy to keep a tight grip on a company's key content, even if everything else is in flux.

Cybersecurity

Cyberattacks have always posed a serious threat to the increasingly digitized business world, but the pandemic is exacerbating the situation. According to McKinsey research, the rise in workers working from home, as well as the pressures that some companies are under, has greatly increased the likelihood of breaches.

Many of the issues that companies face in this area can be solved with cloud-based cybersecurity. Keeping security operations in the cloud provides your company with considerably more digital horsepower, with many of the best security platforms employing artificial intelligence to detect and neutralize threats in real-time