A year ago, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, techUK published an article about how the UK cloud computing industry was ready, willing and able to support UK organisations’ switch to remote working. We highlighted the scalability the cloud provides, reliable connectivity and that the cloud has been supporting the UK workforce to become more mobile and capable to embrace new ways of working for many years.
Now, as we reflect on the last 12 months, what is clear is during the pandemic cloud computing has played a vital role in keeping businesses going, supporting us all to remain digitally connected while we have been, and for now at least remain, physically apart.
Cloud has provided vital support to public and private sector organisations that needed to increase data processing and management capabilities at speed, helping bodies to access real-time data when it was most needed.