The Role of Cloud in Business Survival During the COVID Years

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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation by several years, and the Cloud played a crucial role in business survival. The lift and shift method allowed organizations to quickly adapt to remote work directives.

There’s no doubt that without the Cloud, most businesses would not have survived “the COVID years.” Of course, businesses were using the Cloud long before 2020, but experts agree that the pandemic accelerated digital transformation by between four and seven years at both organisational and industry levels.In the frantic early days of the COVID-inspired Cloud migration, one of the easiest, fastest and most straightforward ways to move applications to the Cloud was what we call lift and shift.

It’s easy to see why this method was so popular – you simply had to “lift” an application from its on-premises environment and “shift” it to a Cloud infrastructure without having to make any significant changes to either the application itself or its architecture. It proved to be an effective way for organisations to adapt at pace to the sudden work-from-home directives from governments around the world. It was a knee jerk, but necessary response to an unprecedented global calamity no amount of business forecasting or modelling could ever have predicte

 

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