Cloud Computing: Why businesses are moving towards it

18 October 2021

• According to Gartner, by 2025, 85 percent of businesses will have adopted a cloud-first approach.
• With the cloud, IT costs can be reduced, flexibility increases, and efficiency increases.
• Companies have also benefited from cloud tools as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to other experts, moving to the cloud can provide companies with a range of benefits including lower IT costs, increased flexibility, improved efficiency, enhanced security, enhanced performance, and the potential for innovation and developing new capabilities.

What makes companies flock to the cloud?

According to research analysts , scalability was the first benefit that attracted people to the cloud, meaning the ability to increase or decrease resources as necessary to meet changing needs.

Additionally, cloud-enabled companies can benefit from innovations like artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Why has cloud adoption accelerated since the pandemic?

In response to COVID-19, almost 70% of organizations using cloud services plan to increase cloud spending.

During COVID and the shaky economic conditions, companies were focused on business priorities such as becoming more digital, enabling them to be more responsive to changing circumstances.

As a result, cloud services assisted firms in “keeping their enterprises viable, online, and connected with their customers and partners.”