Evolution of Cloud and beyond

Simplistically speaking, any enterprise Cloud journey falls into three broad steps.

• Getting to Cloud
• Re-imagining the enterprise around Cloud
• Leveraging ecosystem to create a sum more than parts (1+1 > 2)

Getting to Cloud

This is R-laning your estate and executing on the cloud roadmap across applications, data, infrastructure. Some examples below.

1. Lift and shift the critical components
2. Swap bespoke application to SaaS alternatives
3. Modernize web services to cloud native functions
4. Transform integrations to low code/no code alternatives
5. Thought through data platform to leverage on insights and AI possibilities

Re-imagining the Enterprise around Cloud

The silos between applications, data, and infrastructure has vanished amongst Cloud. This means that a cloud ready enterprise needs a new mindset around people, processes, and tools. Some examples below.

1. SRE way of working where one team is together responsible for uptime management across applications, data and infrastructure.
2. Multi-skilled DevOps pods who can aid both L2/L3 support and new development.
3. FinOps organization that has representation from technical team, business finance, partner specialists, sourcing. This group needs to have the access and authority to be able to make quick decisions around workloads running in Cloud.
4. Business led IT teams, which align themselves and their KPIs to business outcomes.
5. Always On integrated tools and unified reporting that provides near real time end to end visibility.

Leveraging ecosystem to create a sum more than parts (1+1 > 2)

Cloud, being a platform play, resides heavily on ecosystem vantage. This means that not all ecosystems are created equal and granular insight into what and how is required on an ongoing basis to leverage partnerships and turn them into competitive advantage of an enterprise. Some examples below.

1. Industry specific SaaS solutions vs Hyperscale Industry cloud
2. Considerations of long term partnership
3. Exit possibilities - from platforms, or partnerships
4. AI Models - where do they reside, and who do they belong to (Enterprise, Service Integrator, Hyperscale?)
5. New roles of Enterprise Digital team for Ecosystem management

As the world adapts to Cloud, and Cloud continues to evolve, the journey is On at full speed ahead.