Cloud Computing is expanding more than ever. With so many services and applications from cloud juggernauts like Amazon Web Services to new cloud up comers like IBM and Microsoft. This years new technology trend is Cloud services in anyway you can get them. As per the latest Gartner report, the cloud tech services market is projected to grow 17.3% ($206 billion) in 2019, up from $175.8 billion in 2018 and by 2022, 90% of organizations will be using cloud services.
In today’s world, Cloud technology is a trending buzzword among business environments. It provides exciting new opportunities for businesses to compete on a global scale and is redefining the way we do business. It enables a user to store and share data like applications, files, and more to remote locations. These features have been realized by all business owners, from startup to well-established organizations, and they have already started using cloud computing.
In previous blogs we have talked about the ways that the cloud can help save your business money and resources through things like Pay as you Go plans and non existent hardware; as you leave the infrastructure up to the big companies like Amazon and Microsoft. In this blog today we are going to discuss some of the new features and benefits that 2019 brings to the Cloud Service and Infrastructure space.
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Backup and Disaster Recovery
According to Spiceworks report, 15% of the cloud budget is allocated to Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions, which is the highest budget allocation, followed by email hosting and productivity tools. This huge percentage impacts the shared responsibility model that public cloud providers operate on. Public cloud providers, like as AWS (Amazon Web Services ), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud are responsible for the availability of Backup and DR solutions and security of the infrastructure, while the users are in charge for their data protection and compliance.
Cloud Security
As we see the rise in technology, security is obviously another serious consideration. With the introduction of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) security concerns have risen much higher and are the essential thing to look after. Many businesses are shifting to cloud computing without any serious consideration of its security compliance protocols. Therefore, GDPR will be an important thing in 2019 and the organization must ensure that their data practices are both safe and compliant.
Artificial Intelligence Platforms
The utilization of AI to process Big Data is one of the more important upgrades in collecting business intelligence data and giving a superior comprehension of how business functions.AI platform supports a faster, more effective, and more efficient approach to work together with data scientists and other team members. It can help to reduce costs in a variety of ways, such as making simple tasks automated, preventing the duplication of effort, and taking over some expensive labor tasks, such as copying or extraction of data.
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Conclusion
As discussed throughout this article, cloud technology is able to help your business provide better data security, data storage, and streamlining a workflow of any size for any business. Overall cloud services and technology main focus this new year is about becoming more flexible, productive, efficient and most importantly successful. If you want to take a step into the new year right and set your business up for success take the leap and transition to cloud based services.
