Organizations have used digital transformation as an effective approach to improve their operational efficiency or innovative capacity, particularly since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), global digital transformation spending is expected to reach US$3.4 trillion in 2026. Meanwhile, because of escalating cyber-attacks, occurrences of natural or political disasters, and other unexpected events, organizations need to build digital resilience to make workloads function as expected and enable quick recovery from failures caused by these types of events. How to realize digital transformation and build digital resilience in the meantime is an important topic for an organization. The cloud technologies can contribute to an organization’s digital resilience in the following aspects:
Agility
Instead of establishing a scalable IT infrastructure, more and more organizations pursuing digital transformation migrate to the cloud or adopt a cloud-native IT environment to achieve new kinds of agility. Per IDC’s forecast, 74% of organizations in Taiwan will adopt cloud technologies by 2024. The feature of cloud services, on-demand delivery of IT resources, enables an organization to react agilely to the unexpected by scaling resources in real-time, reducing unplanned downtime, and ensuring user productivity through applications that are always available and up to date. more here