Cloud computing helping businesses to save time and money

Biren Shah, MD, Adit Microsys 
 

The key trends 
Emphasis on cybersecurity - With more computing and IoT devices connecting over the Internet than anyone ever imagined cybersecurity has become an immense challenge in the industry.  To address the growing cybersecurity concerns, “Zero Trust” is the trend to watch out for.  Companies will need to build higher-level cybersecurity standards with the stance of “never trust, always verify.”  

Cloud to scale the customers’ business 
Cloud computing can help businesses of our customer save time and money by boosting productivity, improving collaboration and promoting innovation. Benefits of adopting cloud services such as (1) ease of access anytime, anywhere, (2) ease of backup and restoration of data and (3) scaling up or down on-the-fly to meet sudden fluctuations in business demand, all enable customer to focus on business instead of IT administration and free up funds from CAPEX, helping customers grow their businesses.

The latest technology adoption trends in MSMEs 
For an MSME now, the digital revolution is no more a distant dream which only large companies could think of a few years ago. The latest Technology adoption trends in MSME are adoption of top technology thru’ the “as-a-service” model, covering IT infrastructure, networking, ERP, payment, security solutions, data storage, online marketplaces, and so on.

The pandemic has accelerated the pace of digital transformation at such a level that more and more Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are seeking to move to the Cloud and there adoption is faster compared to large enterprise. The affordability cloud offers to start small and pay as we go plays a key role in digital transformation. Most MSMEs are becoming cloud-native first.  Larger companies are relatively less nimble and decisions such as on-prem versus cloud take long time involving many departments with varying views and consideration of many factors.  MSME decisions are mostly driven by the promoters or a small team of top management, making for faster decisions and adoption since they also find it a big challenge to hire experienced IT professionals, retain and manage them to do everything in-house.