Stakeholders in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector have identified cloud technology as a veritable tool to catapult businesses to its optimal productivity.
Besides, the depth adoption of cloud technology is capable of reducing organizations cost, mitigate risk and achieving scalability of data base capabilities. It also yields insight into the maturity of best practices, enterprise-ready cloud services availability.
Organisations that go ahead with the strategic decision of adopting cloud-based technologies have to identify potential security thefts and controls, required to keep the data and applications in the cloud secured.
Speaking at the Oracle Digital Day held recently in Lagos, Country Managing Director, Oracle Nigeria, Adebayo Sanni, said most Nigerians have little knowledge of what cloud adoption can do for their businesses, instead they worry on data security and sovereignty.
“If companies adopt cloud technology, it would create lot of opportunities to invest in innovation, which will bring about winning more market share and increasing revenue for the economy, he said.
To ensure better understanding of cloud adoption, Sanni revealed that Oracle has been embarking on engagements to educate stakeholders both private and public sector on the need for cloud adoption and the security and convenience it brings.
For Nigeria to get out of economic recession and boost its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Sanni said leveraging on technology and adoption of cloud is the answer.
He urged government to make friendly policies that would make adoption of cloud spread across all sectors of the economy.
On his part, Vice President, Technology Solutions, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Oracle Corporation, Xavier Verhaeghe, said that cloud technologies are providing a level playing field for companies to innovate, gain more market share and manage their resources better.
Verhaeghe explained that cloud adoption is affordable, guaranties data security, data sovereignty and can be adopted by startups or multinationals from any industry.
“Before now, it was only very big corporations that can make such investments internationally, but cloud services have made their operations very seamless, providing opportunities for growth and productivity. Similar case is associated with Uber that offers pay-as-you-go solutions to people.
“Technology has never been so affordable than it is today. Today, the issue is not about the hardware or the software rather having a better experience to integrate the capabilities the solutions offer. If you are able to overcome that the company has a great future, he stated.
