On Cloud

Deloitte's 2019 Global Cost Survey reveals that companies are no longer simply reducing costs to fund necessary growth. Instead, they are using smart cost-cutting strategies to invest in technologies like cloud, AI/ML, and RPA to help transform their business for the future.

Many organizations want the power and flexibility of the cloud but can't refactor all their apps to be cloud-ready. With several new solutions in the market today, a hybrid cloud model can enable benefits of the cloud without a complete cloud conversion.

Some organizations are using primarily lift and shift for cloud migration. However, in doing so, they may miss out on potential benefits like increased performance, scalability, flexibility, and security. They also may not be able to completely leverage machine learning and AI technologies.

Moving SAP deployments to the cloud can be challenging. MSPs can help. By handling cloud management and strategy, MSPs can free up organizations to focus on running the business, not cloud management.

Most organizations now realize that migrating to the cloud is a crucial decision but significant technical and cost barriers often make for a difficult move. However, with the right strategies and tools, those barriers can be overcome to enable migration success.

Once reluctant to fully embrace the cloud, banks are now finding big benefits to cloud computing. Among them are typically scalability, agility, and improved compliance. For many banks, Google Cloud and Hadoop play a critical role in their transition.

Cloud security myths are persistent, but often based more in anxiety than fact. In reality, companies that take a risk-based approach to cloud migration and address security risks head on often find a great deal of success.

Cloud migration can be a manual, costly process, and it often results in significant downtime. Deloitte's ATADATA™ can help automate the migration process, speed enterprise transformation, and deliver value quickly, with little to no business disruption.

As companies assess their cloud options, it is important to understand the tradeoffs of cloud lock-in while optimizing for agility and experience.

After three exciting days in San Francisco, the cloud world is abuzz with talk about the latest innovations in cloud computing. Learn how the announcements made this week add up to new opportunities for organizations to maximize the value of cloud.

Hybrid clouds are the solution when companies don't want to--or can't--commit to going cloud native. The right strategy is a key enabler but there are typically tradeoffs that must be made. Google's latest product, Anthos, a platform to enable easier evolution to a hybrid, multi-cloud environment could just be the game changer many companies are looking for.

Determining the value of cloud is complex, but communicating a compelling message to key decision makers about its future impact is essential.

Google Cloud Next 2019 is here, and the brightest minds in IT are meeting to present their ideas on how to make the cloud more effective and accessible for everyone. Join David Linthicum and guests Jacques de Villiers and Tom Galizia from Deloitte, and Snehanshu Shah from Google as they discuss the latest announcements from the keynote speech and highlights from the conference.

DevOps can be challenging, and the results sometimes don’t live up to the high expectations. Why? Because companies often focus on the technology and not the outcome. Further, tools like value-stream mapping only go so far in helping achieve your goals if you don’t understand where you’re starting from. For true DevOps success, it’s essential to go beyond the tools and take a critical look in the mirror, challenge your ideas, and enthusiastically embrace change.

In this episode, David Linthicum and Deloitte’s Bill Kammerer discuss how supply chain and retail operations have been changed by disruption over the past decade, and how smart retailers are turning to the cloud for solutions to their logistics problems. They tackle key logistics issues and look at how companies are leveraging the cloud to help create digital supply networks that enable them to compete in an increasingly disruptive market.