As we head deeper into 2020, speculation, predictions and technology foresight are everywhere. But when it comes to cloud computing, no other technology has seen such rapid adoption across both the business and consumer sphere.

Cloud has become so indiscernible from our everyday existence that’s why speaking about its future as a standalone technology doesn’t always make sense. Canon SA suggests four reasons why cloud technology is so important for our lives, including:
 
1. Transforming society

What is the future of our society? What does it look like, and what does the cloud have to do with it? Cloud will be a huge driving force in the futurization of towns, workplaces, institutions, and people because it will provide the digital infrastructure of tomorrow’s smart cities (where an estimated 68% of the world’s population will live by 2050).
 
2. Transforming business

Cloud has become indispensable for businesses. One of the key reasons for this is how it has impacted innovation. Without the need for physical infrastructure and the operational and labour costs that come with it, cloud technology removes the typical financial barriers to innovation and digital transformation. Smaller businesses who would traditionally struggle to come up with the upfront investment required for on-premise implementations can access new technology through cloud delivery models.
 
3. Impacting information

At the heart of every business is information. How we access it, harness it and share it is closely tied to how successful any organization can be. And this is where cloud has truly made an impact.  Thanks to cloud, business workers are no longer tied to the office and can access information and collaborate on projects from anywhere in the world, in real-time. This has revolutionized business models.
 
4. Data deluge

An irony of all of this is that the more we use cloud solutions, the more we need them. The so-called ‘data deluge’ can be attributed to how much we access cloud-based services in our daily lives. Using online systems, social networking, sharing videos, capturing traffic flow, collaborating with colleagues these all add up to vast quantities of data each person and each business generates for themselves and it doesn’t even touch on the data created by healthcare, education, science, and the military. All this information needs computing power to manage, store and analyze it for which we need cloud.

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