When the pandemic hit globally last year, a lot of companies were not prepared to allow their employees to work from home. Some had to struggle to find the best solution while some were easily able to transition. One reason why most companies were able to do so was because of cloud development. In this article, we are going to talk about how cloud development helped thousands of employees to work efficiently from home during Covid-19 times.

Cloud concept is based on virtualization which means it is a process that lets more efficient utilization of physical computer hardware. It enables users to create virtual machines that are virtual representations of a physical computer. You can open a company’s network/documents on your machine, in a way you will be working on a virtual desktop of your company.

Let us see what all advantages it brings:

Work from Anywhere – The cloud platform can be accessed from anywhere without any requirement of any software. Cloud development has allowed employees to work from anywhere and create a document or code a program. Since employees are accessing the documents and doing the required work from anywhere, the companies can maintain their productivity even when everyone is at their home.

Collaboration – Seamless collaboration is very important for the success of any project and business overall. Given most of the companies now are working from different geographical locations, they should have a platform to collaborate as and when needed.

With the cloud, several team members can work on the same document, provide their updates, save changes, etc. You don’t have to send emails to others every time you make an update in the document. Using cloud development, employees are able to remain in touch with team members through normal and video calls.

Secured – The biggest challenge for companies at the start of the pandemic was to ensure the security part when they allowed employees to work from home. The office network is fully secured but home networks are not. Most businesses were worried about what will happen when employees start working from home – security not only in terms of hacks but also power and system failures.

With Cloud technology, one can save and backup all the files continuously in the cloud. So even if the system crashes in between work or there is a power failure, no work is lost and hence the productivity never goes done. Most cloud software guarantees high availability which means companies can continue their operations without disruption.

Cost-effective and Scalable – The businesses were easily able to use the cloud at the start of the pandemic because it is a very cost-effective solution. Given all the benefits it was providing, the cost was never the show stopper. Most cloud providers charge for the services used – management can increase or decrease the number of users as per their requirement. If the team size is going down, they can simply reduce the cost by reducing the number of licenses.

With so many features, cloud development has ensured thousands of companies are able to work in a hassle-free and cost-effective manner in these tough times.