siliconindia | | MARCH 202119In the past decade, digitalisation has moved and skyrocketed in new and unexpected directions. As digital technologies are shaping industries, enter-prises are pursuing these measures to drive busi-ness goals and gain a competitive edge. The cloud has been the most significant disruption in the technology space with adoptions accelerating at breakneck speeds.The adoption of Cloud services is influenced mainly by essential components like internet connectivity coverage, latency & cost and policies pertaining to data storage on the cloud. It also offers unmatched flexibility in resource utili-sation and scalability. Interconnections offering low laten-cy and downtimes have now become the keys to success. While maintaining data within the confines of the office space and behind a firewall was the traditional and only of-fering available to organisations had until a few years ago. Critical industries like banking, healthcare, government, manufacturing, retail, tech, customer servicing etc. are now moving to the cloud due to avoid the high costs involved in building, maintaining and raising those facilities to cur-rent standards. Data centers instead offer these industries excellent access, state-of-the-art infrastructures and cloud services at less than half that price. Edge computing as a solution to latency, involves pro-cessing capabilities delivered closer to the applications they serve, is further opening new markets and developing unique software ecosystems are now attracting significant investments. Servicing heavy-content demands has made edge data centers a go-to for many large and mid-size firms due to its ability to deliver time-sensitive data at high speeds and minimal latency. The 5G rollout will also bring in revo-lutionary changes in cloud adoptions. Through its ability to provide latencies is less than ten milliseconds, it will soon allow organisations to deploy low latency 5G applications like IoT, AI etc. This, in turn, will also open newer avenues VIEW POINTOF DATABy Sachin Waingankar, Head of Cloud, Web Werks IndiaHe has incredible industry experience in driving business strategies, management of P&L, business management, IoT, blockchain, virtualization and cloud, and opines on data success and dependence of today's industry culture.THE CALCULUSSachin Waingankar, Head of Cloud
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