Business Continuity Using Cloud Computing Amidst Pandemic

For the businesses that do not have cloud infrastructure in place are facing challenges in pursuing reliable IT infrastructure, security requirements, compliance constraints, managerial and operational transformation, employee – client connect, business continuity with on-time deliverable to name a few.  

On the other hand, as COVID19 pushes down businesses, cloud enablement helps them rise. Organizations that have already adopted cloud are minting its benefits with their business continuity even in this deadlock situation.They have cloud based business-level applications in place to maintain collaboration with their co-workers and customers; aiding smooth and continuous business stability.

Let us see few real-time use cases on how cloud adoption across the globe over varied industries enable their business operations even in this tough times.

• Manufacturing: The manufacturing industry is one of those segments that exclusively depends on huge manpower for operations. Many industrialists are estimating that the COVID-19 crisis will affect this industry the most. But, with technologies like Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and IoT being adopted by Industry 4.0, it has brought in unconventional digitization in the manufacturing industry keeping its business running. Cloud connected machineries/ equipment automate factories/ plants reducing the need of human interaction and providing remote, secured access to the sites and operations data, barely hampering their business-stability. It also helps to collaborate supply chains and manage production as per the prevalent situation
• Research/disaster management: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) combined together enable researchers to provide data to health organizations like WHO to take necessary and protective steps to control the epidemic. In this situation of COVID-19, the data scientists collect and store the data regarding virus spread-pattern to perform analytics in cloud and uncover the nature of the virus, its mutations, preventive measures that can help reduce the outspread, and to know where it will likely strike next. Based on this data analytics and AI,government can take the appropriate steps to overcome/deal with this adverse circumstances
• Medical diagnosis: In this pandemic, staying home and maintaining social distance is the best way to save everyone from the corona virus. On the other side, doctors have to treat patients who are infected with virus or other diseases. Considering the scenario, cloud connected tele-medicine/ tele-healthcare is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare providers to respond to the situation. It bridges the gap between people, physicians and health systems, enabling everyone, especially symptomatic patients, to stay at home and communicate with physicians through virtual channels, helping to reduce the outbreak of the virus to mass populations and the medical staff on the front lines. Tele-health has emerged as an effective and sustainable solution for precaution, prevention and treatment to stem the proliferation of infection
• Semiconductors: Nowadays cloud offers a secure, agile, and scalable platform with a comprehensive set of services and high-performance in computing, design, and verification over the cloud. This has encouraged semiconductor companies to adopt cloud for their businesses. In this lockdown state, semiconductors that are native to cloud computing have adopted semiconductor verification based on simulators, which creates similar to actual environment, or act like any actual devices attached to the cloud, enabling further development process. Few semiconductors also share device software/stack into shared cloud with their clients enabling continuity of business operations with customers

Modern organizations have always counted on digital platforms and cloud infrastructure to support their businesses. With the unwelcomed restrictions of COVID19, more companies are recognizing the unquestionable value that cloud delivers in this lockdown situation like effective employee/customer collaboration, flexibility and scalability on the go (elastic digital workplace), productivity boost, no physical presence requirement for server maintenance, secured and quick remote data access/operability, continuous deployments and much more. VOLANSYS helps you implement cloud infrastructure for your organization to ensure continuity in operations and business during this critical time of an outbreak.