Cloud solution makes better business sense

Sanjeev Sinha 
IT & Digitization, India Power Corporation

“Benefits of cloud have been seen in light of higher uptime, higher security and playing significant role in putting enterprise’s disaster recovery plan in place. However, the recent pandemic has shown that high accessibility of data has become equally important to facilitate work from anywhere. 

Today, business continues with people working from home/office/ other areas. Organizations with cloud computing services have switched to work for anywhere seamlessly and have continued with their business. Hence, a good cloud strategy is the need of the hour to ensure high level of business continuity. More and more organizations have realized it and this is proven from the demand surge seen in data centers. 

Compared to on-premises hosting, most cloud hosting is safer, more reliable and scalable. Investing in IT resources even when need is less was investing only for future. Cloud allows investing for the present and hence delays higher investment till scaled up needs come up. Hence, looking at total cost of ownership over reasonable people of 5 -10 years, cloud solution offers better value for money and hence makes better business sense. Also, many organizations go for managed hosting and hence take the benefit of shared manpower without investing heavily on building such teams.

Hybrid cloud solution has been a cloud strategy and need of many organizations because of agility and because they want to optimize use of their own infrastructure too. However, despite the benefits of having hybrid architecture, most such cloud system come with a concern – security. This has been an important problem haunting organization. 

While encryption of data has often been a possible solution to many security concerns, the high visibility and control has been an issue to solve. This means that since data is not visible easily, it become difficult to control it. Hence, it is important to recognize such a need and put automation tool to provide better control and visibility to the entire hybrid architecture.”