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Cloud opportunities and challenges
With the right blend of next gen Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), businesses can position themselves at the forefront of today’s digital economy. Cloud services enable businesses to react fast to market opportunities, free up capital to fund innovation, improve resilience, and get services into market more quickly than ever before.
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Today,
of companies are migrating applications and workloads to the cloud.1
Gain…and pain
While these advantages are all readily accessible, 50%1 of businesses say they are finding cloud adoption and migration more challenging than expected. Public cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS can end up being difficult to manage and retain control over. Other prominent challenges businesses experience with cloud include:
→ Cost management:
Establishing an accurate picture of the increasingly divergent cloud services they’re paying for.
→ Skills shortages:
Cloud represents a step-change in complexity over traditional IT, and many businesses lack the expertise needed to make meaningful progress with cloud initiatives.
→ Cloud-enabling technologies:
Businesses are sometimes unsure how to deploy and manage the capabilities (virtualisation, networking etc.) required to support a cloud approach.
Changing approaches and priorities
Compared to the initial rush to cloud of a few years ago, businesses are now taking a more deliberate and measured approach with a clearer focus on the outcomes they want to achieve:
→ Fewer wholesale migration projects where applications and workloads are ‘lifted and shifted’ out of a data centre and into public clouds.
→ More emphasis on modernisation, and on developing cloud native applications that are designed to run in the cloud from day one, using platform services like containers.
→ Greater awareness of the importance of cloud governance, cost allocation and cost control, and the need for these controls to be put in place from day one.
New thinking
At Ultima, we wholeheartedly share the view that a systematic approach to cloud projects yields the best results. And it’s why we support our customers through their entire cloud lifecycle. Wherever you’re starting from, we apply a proven and structured approach. We start by assessing your current situation and advise you on the best approach. Then we’ll design and deliver your cloud solution, with additional options that range from expert 24/7 technical support to delivering a full managed service.