How Cloud Computing Boosts Remote Working in Businesses

For the past 5-6 months, we all have been away from our physical desks and working remotely. The current pandemic has given rise to terms like- “Social Distancing” and “Work from Home.” All of us have been collaborating with our team members through various channels like- WhatsApp, Video Conferencing Tools, and Emails, to name a few.

All of these factors have a latent and robust message for what holds in the future for us. The future of our work will be purely dependent on how quickly one can relocate or move rather than where one is located. Most of the leading organizations in the World have favored the practice of remote working.

Remotely working has also brought in specific disruptions for companies- all the internal and informal discussions are now getting replaced with online messaging. The vital business data has now been moved to Cloud to protect against any outrages and cyberattacks.

Cloud has also emerged as the key enabler for employees to take action quickly, expanding business teams easily and encashing crucial business deals with the relevant data present on the Cloud.

Why is Remote Working Preferred?

Employees prefer remote working over the traditional methods due to

• Employees understand the importance of time and the degree of its flexibility. They get enhanced control over maintaining their professional and personal lives.
• Most business leaders understand the need to access data from any location. They can get more productive by saving enough time by not being present at the organization.

Benefits of Cloud for Remote Working

With businesses getting ready to adopt remote working for their employees, they get the following set of benefits-

1. Smooth Accessibility In the usual cases, businesses using data centers often need to migrate their data offline whenever there is maintenance. While using Cloud services, companies can offer their remotely located employees full-time access to the information that is required for performing their tasks. The Cloud also provides easier control access to the various virtually hosted resources. The admins can define identity and access policies and settings for specific Cloud resources. These settings can be remotely configured by providing remotely present employees with all the data when they are away from the office.
2. Enhanced Scalability For any Cloud Hosting, scalability is one of the important features. Scalability in the Cloud can be categorized into- horizontal and vertical Scaling.
   
   1. Vertical Scaling is about the addition of more resources to a server, by replacing the existing ones with a more powerful one or modifying the instance sizes
   2. Horizontal Scaling refers to the addition of more servers to split the workload to restrict the number of incoming requests on a single server. Horizontal Scaling could also mean adding more instances
3.  Cloud computing can become an ideal solution for the admin teams that are not able to access their actual, physical location. Adopting remote working brings in a lot of employees who need constant access to resources hosted on the Cloud. In order to address the growing number of remote users, business admin teams can quickly scale up the Cloud. The elasticity of the Cloud also helps companies to increase/decrease their power at any instance of time, making it an overall cost-effective solution as compared to an on-premise solution.
4. Enhanced Data Security and Protection When a Cloud stores a company’s data, it remains protected from all sorts of data breaches and attackers. The Cloud service provider ensures that the data is monitored continuously in a highly dynamic and complex threat environment. The hosted information on the Cloud remains safe from all forms of losses and hardware failures, leading to almost negligible downtime. The Cloud providers also ensure that several replicas of your data have been created at different locations, in any event of mishappening.
5. Space Savings Most SMBs don’t have sufficient monetary resources for deploying physical servers and creating a dedicated server room. With Cloud services, there is absolutely no need for setting up such infrastructure as data and applications are present at the provider’s remotely present Cloud infrastructure. Cloud solutions also help in cutting down various expenses related to hardware that is needed to run an entire server setup.

Wrap Up:

With Cloud computing, employees of a business get enhanced levels of flexibility, advanced security, and, most importantly, scalability for adding/removing resources without hampering essential business processes. In today’s time, when everyone is forced to obey social distancing and work from home, Cloud can be the best solution for keeping the momentum and growth high, even when the employees are not physically present at their physical locations.

If you’re looking for an advanced Cloud solution that offers enhanced scalability and security to your business, reach out to team bodHOST today.