Five ways that Cloud Computing will Change IT roles

When cloud computing was instigated in the market there were very mixed views as to how it will help the future of the IT industry. There were proponents of the positive and negative outcomes of cloud computing in the industry. In hind sight this reaction is almost similar to when open source was introduced.

Cloud Computing is rapidly rolling as a standard in business organizations. The technology is revolutionizing the way organizations manage infrastructure and business processes. As we see cloud computing is growing and admired as the solution for organizations seeking to save time and money on IT costs and leverage their business processes to increase profits.

Let’s see how the cloud computing will change business and the tech industry.

Easy Accessibility of Data through Cloud

The accessibility of cloud computing is a major incentive for business owners, which allows its employees to access the data from anywhere at any time, instead of carrying the data on a memory card or emails or coming into the office. If entrepreneurs are on a business trip or any employee on a vacation, it provides easy access to the data through cloud computing, making many of the inconveniences void.

Saving your IT Costs

Most of the organizations use cloud computing as pay-as-you-go aspect. This means organizations pay only for the service and storage that are currently being used by them. This automatically cuts down the IT costs leading to an increase in the revenue. With the expansion of the company or a growth in the storage requirements storage needs can be scaled up or in the case of software, more payment can be made for increase in the usage for the same.

Small companies, start-ups can break-even faster as cloud computing rapidly improves the standing of the company against the competition by bringing in more revenue quicker and scope for grabbing important market share.

Boost for the Architects

Massive growth is lined up in days ahead. It will be inevitable that all manual activities/services will be replaced by automation. Such a scene provides a huge scope for enterprise architects who will play major roles in IT. Skilled architects whose roles include development, implementation and enforcement of automated systems in every IT organization for uncountable services such that it makes the tasks simpler, easier to perform.

Utilizing cloud computing services help organization through cloud based software in sending invoices to clients, organizing and synchronizing employee payroll, to name a few.

Storage
Everyone with a computer spends a lot of time acquiring data and then trying to find a way to store it. For some computer owners, finding enough storage space to hold all the data they've acquired is a real challenge. Investing in larger hard drives and other external storage devices like thumb drives or compact discs are expensive. Desperate computer users might delete entire folders worth of old files in order to make space for new information. But some are choosing to rely on a growing trend: cloud storage. Cloud storage is an area which is the latest burst. For individual computer owners it is the safest and most economical. Enterprise Storage such as Backup, Disaster Recovery in cloud are still pondered over by bigger organizations but are getting easy acceptance by small industries to use cloud for their storage purposes.

Process Improvement

Today even though most of the business has been digitized there still remains some documentation like hardcopy memos and handouts to employees and customers. Cloud computing has changed that as more and more businesses are giving up on documentation by utilizing emails to circulate important documents. Even we can store documents at one centralized location and grant access to employees. Through on demand solutions and shared services, which can be hosted on cloud, organizations can capitalize on the development of new skills and solutions. This leads to better business processes which in turn ensure that the organization is lean enough to adapt to market changes and even see them as new opportunities for growth.