Digital enterprises: Cloud empowers enterprise growth stories this pandemic

By now it is is accepted that the Covid-19 induced lockdown has accelerated digital adoption and also ensured continuity of businesses which have gone for digital transformation. This has meant a significant jump in the use of (hybrid) cloud to implement digital services. In India, this is a convergent route, both large businesses and SMBs are on the path to utilise the technology. As per a recent Nasscom report, in a survey of over 1,000 SMBs in India, 60% were already using cloud, though almost half were at early stages of adoption. Tech-savvy SMBs that adopted cloud have been able to drive 25-30% productivity improvement and 15-20% reduction in operational costs, the report further states.