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By Alberto Jessurun / May 25, 2022 / Blog

The Newest Use Cases for Cloud Computing

The cloud is king in today’s data-driven economy. Here are the key factors contributing to and enhancing its increasing commercial use.

Key Takeaways:
  • Increased connectivity demands are making cloud applications indispensable
  • Massive amounts of raw data are being filtered through the cloud to sift actionable analytics
  • Cloud storage and operations have become critical to the success of disaster recovery plans
  • The need for public and private access to company data has seen hybrid cloud use boom
  • Augmented and virtual realities are further driving cloud adoption
Cloud computing’s ascent during 2022 makes it the dominant form of data storage and exchange. This makes now a great time for businesses to look more closely at how in-house vs cloud storage could impact their operation. The global preference is certainly toward the latter and is driving a market that will be worth $800 billion by 2025.

Today’s organizations have more than 60% of their corporate data stored in the cloud. Cloud computing is currently adapting to many uses, ranging from hybrid models and disaster recovery to greater connectivity and big-data analytics. This guide will cover what’s new in this evolving area, and how businesses benefit from each development.

SD-WAN to improve cloud connectivity

Software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) is becoming a multi-billion-dollar market because it addresses one critical weakness in cloud computing structures: fluctuating connectivity, which can significantly hinder application performance.

The sheer amount of data being shuttled back and forth within an organization’s onsite and cloud framework can lead to mounting latency and substandard performance. SD-WAN breaks down the bandwidth needs of all applications to provide the amount they need to optimize cloud connectivity and effectively maintain the business’ quality of service.

Breaking down big-data analytics

Data gathering helps businesses gain greater insights into their customers and the effectiveness of their operations. Companies are becoming more aware of how cloud computing helps with collecting and studying vast amounts of data. Quickly transforming raw information into actionable statistics via cloud computing’s real-time processing is giving today’s companies a future edge.

Backup and disaster recovery

Maintaining and rapidly reestablishing business operations, preventing and halting interruptions is of paramount importance, making a disaster-recovery strategy critical to continuity. Smart companies use every possible means to stay resilient against disruptions, like record cybercrime rates and increasing natural disasters. Cloud computing has proven among the most reliable methods of protection.

Companies increasingly rely on the cloud as a backup space for all data and operations because it provides remote access in a secure virtual environment. This allows businesses to continue with little to no interruption, even if one storage location is compromised or erased.

The cloud as a security tool is also typically more cost-effective. Organizations don’t have to build and maintain their own remote disaster-recovery site, nor budget continuously for third-party disaster-failover computing services, instead only paying when they need them.

Increased adoption of hybrid cloud services

This model continues to be the most popular choice with new cloud users for several reasons, including its impressive security performance against serious cloud threats. Hybrid is built on a combination framework of a private cloud, used only by a single business, and a public one operating simultaneously. Today’s companies use an average of five different cloud platforms.

Companies realize that adding a public platform to their cloud computing allows greater data storage and manages cost; fully private storage is more expensive.

Hybrid storage also offers greater scalability, integrates more effectively with existing systems, and meshes with another trending aspect of data management: edge computing. Read our previous blogs on colocation and cloud transparency if hybrid is on your horizon.

The ubiquity of employee-owned devices

An increasing number of people are either working from home or in transit, using their laptops, phones, or tablets. However, this flexibility also significantly increases the chance of a security breach because many remote workers access sensitive company data without first safeguarding their devices.

This is the perfect scenario for cloud computing. This allows more secure partitioning of data between private and public networks, and allows employees to utilize the latter without compromising data. Workers can also access virtual desktops, which their employer has already secured against threats. This removes the reliance on and vulnerability of carrying out processes on personal devices.

The rise of augmented and virtual realities

Augmented (AR) and virtual (VR) reality were once the stuff of science fiction, then the tools of future-facing gamers, and now an increasingly viable means of business communication. VR use has boomed in the workplace since 2020 due to COVID-19. This is one of numerous changes imposed on cloud function brought on by the pandemic.

The cloud will be at the center of VR’s exponential market growth as more companies adopt readily available tech, such as HVC Vive Pro and Oculus Quest 2 to train employees, conduct meetings, and serve the public. VR and AR also show great potential as tools for product engineering and design and data visualization. Cloud computing will be at the center of hosting these revolutionary technologies.

The “cloudification” of alternative realities, combined with the advent of 5G, makes them more accessible to businesses that reap VR and AR benefits without the huge expenses connected to privately hosted image processing, hardware, and data storage. Widespread adoption is some time away, and security issues are still being ironed out, but companies are already using the cloud for this purpose.

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