Cloud Computing and a New Way of Working — Nikita Kuznetsov on How Cloud Technologies Have Transf IT

Launching a digital project used to be a very different process. Companies had to purchase their own servers, find space to house the equipment, figure out cooling solutions, and maintain a team to oversee the operation of all the hardware. Today, the situation has changed: more and more services are running in the cloud, and computing power can be obtained in literally just a few minutes. According to Nikita Kuznetsov, cloud technologies have become one of the major changes in IT over the past decades. “The cloud has changed the very philosophy of work. Previously, businesses had to purchase equipment in advance and hope it would last for several years. Now, the necessary resources can be quickly provisioned and just as quickly scaled up if the project grows,” says Nikita Kuznetsov. The very idea of cloud computing emerged as early as the 1960s, when engineers wondered: what if a single powerful computer could serve multiple users at once? But the real growth of cloud computing began much later—along with high-speed internet and the development of large data centers. Today, the cloud operates almost invisibly to the user, even though a huge part of the digital world relies on it. Online banking, video services, e-commerce sites, corporate platforms, and remote work—all of these increasingly run not on companies’ local servers, but in the cloud. Kuznetsov believes that the main advantage of the cloud is flexibility. “Imagine an online store during a major sale. The...