Overview
Data management and security protocols are the building blocks of every organization. From startups to top-class businesses, protection of the data is the key element. Traditional ‘offline’ data storage was less reliable, inaccessible, and insecure. Since the inception of Cloud Computing in early 2000, it has made the data storage and accessibility process smooth, feasible, secure, economic, and accessible.
In this blog, we will have a closer look at Cloud Computing – along with its advantages – and review how data security is the essential component of your organization.
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is the most commonly used data maintenance strategy in the world. In layman’s terms, Cloud Computing is storing the data and accessing it through the internet – rather than an actual hard drive. Unlike local storage, Cloud Computing makes it feasible and convenient to access your stored data and run your programs anytime and everywhere. Today, Cloud Computing has outlasted all the conventional data storage strategies as it has a growing demand in the market.
The simplest example of cloud computing is backing up photos with Google Photos from your Smartphone. Likewise, Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Account Sync are other cloud computing services that aim at serving the consumers in storing and accessing their data. However, it also provides more complex storage services to large enterprises to preserve all their confidential information, important data, and programs. Reports suggest that Netflix – one of the largest streaming platforms in the world – also relies on cloud computing to keep up with its data.
Cloud Computing Guarantees Data Security and Reliability
Prior to the introduction of ‘online’ cloud computing, keeping up with the data was hectic and costly. Think of the IT infrastructures that were installed to get the data stored. It was more like storing an inventory in a warehouse. With its emergence, cloud computing made it feasible and reliable. At the same time, it ensured the security of data.
In traditional storage methods, there was a huge risk of losing the collected data. On top of that, those stored data were inaccessible. This is where cloud computing came in. It provided the reliability and accessibility that the business owners and entrepreneurs had yearned for. It provided an unraveling platform to store all the confidential and important information of the data of the business. Every office member can have access to the cloud computed data anytime anywhere – as long as they have an internet connection. This reliability and easy accessibility made cloud computing stand out in the marketplace. A research study suggests that 70% of the US-based businesses were thoroughly relying on cloud computing for data storage. This ratio is expected to be 90% by the end of 2021.
It Offers Flexibility
Cloud Computing offers flexible servers to the users who invest in cloud-based services. It provides the business with unlimited storage and bandwidth that enable them to scale – either up or down – to increase and support their website traffic. A traditional IT infrastructure, on the other hand, will need the installation of various equipment to do the same job. As a result, cloud computing offers cost-effective and flexible services and shares its sheer part in generating greater revenue for the business.
Cloud Computing Has Reliable Backup Solutions
One of the disastrous drawbacks of the previous data management IT services was the inability of backing up the data. The data were essentially stored in the hard drive of a computer system that will give ‘physical access’ to the one on-the-spot user only. If the system gets deteriorated or the PC is lost, there was no other way to back up the data. You can think of all the confidential information – from accounts payables to receivables and numberless other data – of your business being wiped out in a blink of an eye. The loss and agony are apparent.
Unlike these outdated strategies, cloud computing offers a backup plan of all the stored data. You can instantly recover and have all the data handy on any device and in a matter of seconds. Cloud computing is strategically designed in a way that it automatically makes a copy of the stored data across all servers. If the ‘original’ data is deleted or lost for some reason, it will provide the mirrored version of your data, and you can access and recover it right away. Likewise, cloud computing also offers this service for websites. For instance, if a cloud computed data fails to operate in a website, it will mirror the data and provide instant access to it. Quickly accessing the failed data lessens the downtime of the website. Ultimately, it helps in sustaining the functionality of the website. This backup plan has revolutionized the marketplace and has made a thorough shift from outdated data management strategies.
It is Self-Automated and Environment Friendly
In-house IT infrastructure is essentially upgraded by the technician, and it costs both the time and money of the businesses. Studies suggest that in 2010 an average of 18 working days per month were spent on in-house IT updates. No wonder how frequent an update is supposed to be. In turn, it costs the potential time of the workers and a sheer amount of money for the businesses.
Cloud computing, on the other hand, is self-automated. It syncs and auto-updates all by itself. Unlike the conventional ones, no external equipment is necessary to be installed to keep up the server.
Another hailing property of cloud computing is that it is environmentally friendly. Since it has very low energy consumption, it does not mess up with nature like the traditional IT infrastructures. In contrast, the old-fashioned data collection strategies are in stern opposition to the environment and disturb the ecological process with high carbon emission and energy consumption.
Summing Up
To sum up, cloud computing is one of the essential components of modern-day businesses that helps them in keeping up with their confidential and important data. It offers a reliable, secure, flexible, and easily accessible data management service that ultimately adds up to the greater good of the businesses. It has outlasted all the conventional management strategies that used to be costly, time-consuming, and insecure. Based on this analogy, we assume that the future is of cloud computing.
