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Cloud is the hope for business
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According to Marcin Gwóźdź, the CEO of Polcom, the hope of business lies in cloud computing . What potential does it have, and is it a recipe for gaining a competitive advantage? Answers to these and other questions can be found in Rzeczpospolita. In addition to the CEO of Polcom, the material also features comments from Dr. Maciej Kawecki, Joanna Szyman, Krzysztof Jonak, Mateusz Tykierko, and Marcin Pieleszek.
Digital transformation, particularly based on the cloud, can change the face of businesses by improving system and data security and ensuring business continuity. These are the highest priorities in building IT strategies and the most urgent investments in digitalizing a company.
What may accelerate digital transformation?
According to Marcin Gwóźdź, a reliable and efficient IT infrastructure is the foundation for achieving business goals and objectives.
It may seem obvious, but digital transformation cannot be achieved without a reliable and efficient IT infrastructure. It forms the basis for further actions and the realization of goals at the business level. Companies participating in the same study agree that the ability to use cloud services in this process will facilitate and accelerate the transformation. However, in my opinion, success is impossible if the need for digital transformation does not find its beginning and understanding in business.
Customers who use Polcom’s cloud services admit that digitalization is progressing faster and produces more predictable results.
They notice this especially during the pandemic because digitization enables them to conduct their business more stably and comfortably.
Cloud in the opinion of experts
What do experts think about the potential of the cloud?
In the famous photo from 1994, Bill Gates shows off the latest CD-ROM, sitting on a stack of paper as high as a tree to demonstrate how many pages could fit on the CD-ROM. Today, he would have to sit on a stack of paper taller than the tallest building in the world. There has never been a device in history that has increased its power as much as the computer has, over 100,000 times since the 1960s. This means that our devices now gather thousands of pieces of information daily. A major challenge is to create technology that is capable of not only collecting data in such enormous quantities but also doing so safely and systematically. Cloud services are one answer to this challenge. When properly constructed, they offer the possibility of safely storing information in virtually unlimited amounts – says Dr. Maciej Kawecki, Dean of the Warsaw School of Banking and President of the Lem Institute.
On the other hand, according to Krzysztof Jonak, EMEA Territory Sales Director at Intel, the pandemic has led to increased interest in the digitalization process, but there is still a significant need for a shift in mentality regarding business models.