{"id":37018,"date":"2020-04-08T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vmengine.net\/2020\/04\/08\/the-role-of-cloud-providers-during-and-after-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:21:21","slug":"the-role-of-cloud-providers-during-and-after-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/2020\/04\/08\/the-role-of-cloud-providers-during-and-after-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of Cloud Providers during and after the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_176 et_section_regular\" >\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_262\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_259  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_425  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>If there is one thing that the coronavirus emergency has taught us, it is to become more and more familiar with <em>smart working<\/em> and with the tools that technology makes available to us to shorten distances and bring our profession to bear in the best possible way.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, however, Cloud Providers are being put to the test. Thus, <strong>Forrester<\/strong> and <strong>GlobalData<\/strong>, leading research firms, have made public <em>their assessments of the impact of the crisis on Cloud services.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_169 et_animated et-waypoint\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cloud-vmengine.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31820\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_426  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">What are the initiatives undertaken by the Cloud giants?<\/h3>\n<p>The American market research company <em>Forrester<\/em>, in a document published on March 12, put in black and white that <strong>Amazon Web Services <\/strong>has included the response to the pandemic in its resilience planning and scales regularly to handle peaks in demand, exactly as during <em>Black Friday<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pandemic response policies and procedures have been integrated into <em>disaster recovery<\/em> planning. Measures have been taken to ensure ample capacity and continuity of service. <strong>Google Cloud<\/strong>, on the other hand, has set up an internal working group to plan and mitigate the commercial impacts arising from the Covid-19 emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <strong>Microsoft Azure <\/strong>has seen a <em>500 percent increase in meetings<\/em>, calls, and conferences on its &#8220;Teams&#8221; collaboration platform since January 31, when the West was progressively hit by the emergency. And in exactly the same period, it saw a 200 percent increase in the use of &#8220;Teams&#8221; on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_170 et_animated et-waypoint\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/technology-world-future-vmengine.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31822\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_427  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">What does this mean?<\/h3>\n<p>As <strong>Forrester<\/strong> explains, while the long-term impact on people and the way they work in the future is not so clear, the <em>assessment of the usefulness of Cloud Computing services<\/em> is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GlobalData<\/strong>, a London-based consulting and analysis firm, has emphasized the importance of the Cloud, especially for companies that have to operate or communicate online together with their employees.<\/p>\n<p>Global Data also pointed out that not only has the demand for Cloud Computing increased, but also for other IT solutions such as <strong>Edge Computing<\/strong> , i.e. a cloud-based processing system that allows you to reduce processing latency, with the ability to have real-time answers, and save bandwidth by sending information to the data center that has already been processed and is therefore smaller.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_428  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"CorpoA\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201c<i>As companies stop their activities in physical locations and, if they can, continue to work remotely, it is clear how important the Cloud is for the continuity of operations. Every company that has actively resisted digitalization is now confronted with a harsh reality. This puts cloud service providers in a strong position<\/i>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_cta_84 et_animated et_pb_promo  et_pb_text_align_center et_pb_bg_layout_dark\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_promo_description\">\n<h2 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">We can help you<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>The appointment with digitalization can no longer be postponed and the Cloud is our best ally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_button_wrapper\"><a class=\"et_pb_button et_pb_promo_button\" href=\"https:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/cosa-facciamo\/\">Find out why<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that the coronavirus emergency has taught us, it is to become more and more familiar with smart working and with the tools that technology makes available to us to shorten distances and bring our profession to bear in the best possible way. 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