COVID-19 And The Power Of The Cloud?

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent work-from-home rules caught way too many businesses off-guard, forcing them to quickly migrate much of their employees from offices where they enjoyed relatively secure, relatively high-speed internet access to work full-time from their bedrooms, kitchens, and dens where security and access was lacking.

Andres Rodriguez, founder and CTO of Nasuni, a Boston-based developer of scalable NAS and cloud file systems, told CRN that the rush to work from home was a wake-up call to businesses, causing them to re-examine their dependence on on-premises and cloud infrastructures and find ways to ensure the issues caused by COVID-19 are not repeated in some future pandemic or other disaster.

For Rodriguez, that means businesses will be shifting more of their applications and data to the cloud, and transitioning from a cloud-first to a cloud-only architecture. He acknowledges earlier moves to the cloud had issues, but argues that the technology is now ready and businesses will have no choice but to make the move.

For a look at one possible future for data storage and the cloud, turn the page.