Sheldon Anthony IO

As a business leader in the present and future, it is essential to make your business or products capable of adapting to changes on the fly. Business leaders must ensure that their organizations and products adapt quickly to changing times and conditions. The current climate is not just a passing trend but a valuable lesson for transitioning smoothly into the future. Offloading the weights that tie up businesses for long periods has become a survival technique.

Businesses scaling at will are making an impact today and in the future. The distributed cloud allows enterprises to scale their infrastructure needs to support or retract customer demand. It also enables companies to scale infrastructure resources to support a high degree of agility and scalability in meeting evolving needs. By offering companies the ability to take ownership of computing resources without long-term commitments so that they can be used as long as needed and then retired when not. Business owners should start small with big opportunities they might have and scale to see if they justify further investment. Staying in a traditional technological ecosystem where you are paying for things you don’t need or holding onto things that are no longer applicable will be the difference between staying in business today and in the future. 

When an enterprise has high fixed operating costs like assets that can't be sold off quickly or reconfigured when the economic tide comes in, this can cause business leaders to take drastic measures to cut operating costs. Without careful thought, these measures have a drastic impact on their businesses. Business owners must remember that a significant portion of their information technology expenditures is not overhead but rather investments in growing revenue and reducing operating expenses. Technology systems are used in almost everything we do from start-ups to global corporations, we depend on them daily. What business are you really in? This is a question that needs to be asked continually? If technology is not your answer, then what is the software, infrastructure, data centers, etc. doing on your business premise? 

Today there are readily available distributed cloud systems that are ready to be turned on and off at the click of a button. Complete business units are being replaced by these advanced distributed cloud systems, and bare minimum human resources are busy configuring, optimizing, innovating, and maintaining their business processes on them. Looking at what companies like Microsoft and Google have done with their email systems, gone are the days of owning, hosting, managing, and maintaining business email infrastructure and services. There are many more distributed cloud systems available that businesses may not be aware of that can handle specific business needs. They are agile and scalable in responding to changes in a matter of seconds.

The early adopters of distributed cloud computing have had a challenge with latency. Customer retention and image have suffered due to their slow responses to customer needs. Latency problems are being corrected with improved network speeds implemented cloud strategies will come into question. These distributed cloud systems rely heavily on these advanced connected networks. Since these advanced connected networks are still new, early adopters of cloud computing have an advantage because they possess tacit knowledge of how to respond when something goes wrong. So the latency challenge was a big problem but it was also a wonderful opportunity to learn how to operate when things go wrong. The latency issue with some of these distributed cloud systems is disappearing fast and at the moment it is a cost price away from implementation.

With each passing day, we are getting closer to experiencing the benefits of these distributed cloud systems. The pace at which things are changing is rapid. The impact of a carefully adopted cloud system has a huge effect in terms of business cost. Future leaders are cost-mitigating and the cloud pioneers are taking on some of these responsibilities. Customers are experiencing the benefits of distributed cloud solutions from businesses that have adopted or implemented them. As a result, many new products are being developed, and ineffective processes are being changed.