Month: July 2021

Since the past decade, cloud services have globally risen over each year with a valuation of around $400 billion in the past year itself. The fact that excessive creation and use is everywhere invites the necessity of surplus data storage. Furthermore, with more inventories and repositories for data storage, physical storage has become obsolete, opening doors for cloud storage for all corporate and non-corporate data. Thus, data being an inevitable factor for corporate accounts to demand cloud adoption frameworks in 2021.

Cloud Adoption by Businesses and Enterprises

The cloud has been the most efficient and effective data storage solution compared to any individual storage platforms. They are ideal for data generation, creating innovative solutions, data operations, and enhanced scalability; cloud solutions have expanded globally, allowing enterprises and organizations to develop innovative business processes that align with their business competencies instead of spending on IT infrastructure that usually gets redundant after a certain point in time.

The mid-year in 2020 created opportunities for more cloud-based solutions because of the remote work facilities. With uncertainties because of the pandemic situation around, it pushed organizations to switch to cloud adoption frameworks and cloud technologies as a part of their business continuity plan in 2021. As a result, more and more businesses migrated to cloud-based frameworks and solutions to provide a remote work environment for their clients and employees. Within no time, the cloud has become an inevitable part of the business continuity plan in 2021. It is soon going to be a notable factor for organization growth in coming years. It will be no surprise that cloud services will grow around 20% in the next quarter of 2021 as per some forecasts.

Pros and Cons of Cloud-based service models to Business Continuity Plan in 2021

Cons	Pros
Casual downtime and failures in data centers	Always up
Need updates about cloud providers and their processes of data backup	Automatic and secured backups
Get clarity on understanding security and backup processes and plans	No need to install and manage cloud services onsite
Cloud security is not trusted by most professionals and cybersecurity organizations	Dedicated security experts for monitoring and safeguarding setup 24/7
Need to invest more in personnel, resources, and other environmental assets	Purchase on the go

Cloud Benefits

Cloud offers secure, error-free, and timely data backup and recovery with less human intervention. While the traditional recovery platforms often consume hours and days for data migration and recovery from on-premise data storage or servers to drives.
Here is a look at the undeniable role cloud plays in business continuity:

• Reduced downtime
• Reduced recovery time
• Offers better network management.
• Enhanced information security management
• Offers regular backup.
• Offers plans for every business need with improved security and maintenance. 
• Eliminates the time to visit onsite premises in emergencies or uncertain conditions
• Summing it all, cloud adoption is the present and the future.
• To stay steady and secured with your data, it is high time that businesses should switch to the cloud if not done already.

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The future of work demands our attention as the COVID-19 pandemic shook things up in the workplace environment. The present and the future of the digital workforce is likely to see experiments in work models given the focus on digital talent and the on-demand workforce.

Against this backdrop of disruption and change, businesses will have to adopt these latest five trends as this will be the critical acceleration for transformation that they cannot ignore.

1. Bring your own environment (BYOE) into the remote workforce

The tremendous setback of recent times has led businesses to exponentially shifting towards a remote workforce . Not only has it sustained business continuity, but thereby it has given employees the flexibility and accessibility to be productive all the time. Bring-Your-Own-Environment gives employees the freedom to be reliant on the remote working system. To monitor productivity and ensure employee emotional well-being, businesses should see through the lens of human-centricity and drive a better employee experience.

The tremendous setback of recent times has led businesses to exponentially shifting towards a remote workforce . Not only has it sustained business continuity, but thereby it has given employees the flexibility and accessibility to be productive all the time. Bring-Your-Own-Environment gives employees the freedom to be reliant on the remote working system. To monitor productivity and ensure employee emotional well-being, businesses should see through the lens of human-centricity and drive a better employee experience.

2. Adopting Automation

Automation tools help to automate management activities and measure performance. Automation augments the efforts of the workforce to drive productivity and in fact, even facilitation creation of new job positions. The menial, routine nature of operations is efficiently handled through automated processes without errors. Likewise, employees are adjudged based on specific KPIs and assessed without bias through automated checks and triggers, reducing manual intervention.

3. The Future of Work is Hybrid.

The future of the workforce will have a hybrid/ blended workplace model to maintain mobility. The hybrid workplace model combines both remote and office work together, giving employees the flexibility to work in both environments. What the model does is, give employees access to complete individual tasks and yet use the office for collaborative tasks with peers and groups, making it the best of both worlds. Organizations will most adopt a hybrid work environment to support the needs of both the employer and employees.

4. Cloud Computing Will Bond with Facilities and Operations

The future of the workspace will be aligned with cloud computing as one of the biggest Digital workplace trends. Cloud computing has enabled businesses to stop investing in costly infrastructure that could turn out redundant in some years. Instead, businesses can already implement cloud computing in the workplace, with their data stored in secured cloud silos , helping authenticated users to access information on the go, anytime, featuring improved cloud security too.

5. Creating a compelling employee experience

When employees work remotely, you need to showcase periodic feedback and training to keep them motivated. Employee and service management tools can allow employees to access data and respond quickly to departments and evaluations. Companies can host training and development workshops and modules to train employees at their own pace. Employees can use social media systems to voice their ideas and opinions related to tasks and operations, ensuring a transparent workplace.

Conclusion

The workplace is now witnessing improved productivity, flexibility, cost management, and resource management. By choosing these digital workplace trends, businesses have become more resilient and flexible to turn insight into action and produce useful outcomes. This new working model could serve as a blueprint for the long-term and will surely be the new norm for many businesses in the foreseeable future.

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