With enforced Work From Home (WFH) orders across the globe in its 4th week, many companies and their employees are finding it impossible to perform any work from home. IT infrastructure of these companies resides within their office premises with no way to access it from outside. Circumstances such as these makes these companies helpless and puts them on backfoot. It is expected that viruses similar to COVID-19 might affect human kind on regular basis resulting in at least 2-3 weeks of enforced Work From Home (WFH) directives on annual basis.

Companies would have to take a holistic look at their existing IT infrastructure & Business Solution footprint & prepare for such adverse situations.
CLOUD IS THE WAY
First & foremost, these companies need to move their business-critical IT solutions to Cloud.
Be it e-Mail servers, ERP solutions or any business-critical applications including accounting solutions. They could opt for a Public cloud or a Private cloud. This would offer them business continuity and remote working flexibility. Here are TOP 5 benefits companies could avail by simple moving to cloud.
FLEXIBLE WORKING:
Cloud provides greater flexibility to companies and employees. With cloud, any place & every place is virtual office enabling employees to work remotely or in office.
HIGH AVAILABILITY:
Downtime for any business is always disastrous. Server failures could result in companies coming to complete standstill resulting in significant losses. On the other hand, cloud hosting removes any such possibility and guarantees consistent high performance and uptime.
A GREAT EQUALIZER:
With cloud, SME’s are on equal footing with their bigger competitors. Deploying solution on cloud is instantaneous, giving you strategic advantage. IT servers & IT capabilities is no more an issue as capabilities could be extended and added instantaneously.
SAVES MONEY:
Cloud does not mean increase in cost, rather it will reduce your cost & provides you good return on investment (ROI). You don’t have to invest on your own serves and people to administer these servers.
INCREASED SECURITY:
With cloud, your business is better protected against hacking and data theft. Cloud providers have to comply with stringent security regulations to protect customers data using firewall & intrusion prevention systems.
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