So You’ve Moved To The Cloud.. What’s Next In Digital Transformation?

With many organisations now having completed their move to cloud, some may be wondering what’s next for digital transformation. Successfully migrating some or all workloads to the cloud doesn’t mean an organisation’s digital transformation is complete. It’s essential for organisations to continue down the path of adaptation to ensure agility and gaining of continuous value from ever-evolving cloud platforms and infrastructure assets, according to Intergen.

Joe Newton, principal solution specialist, Intergen, said, “Organisations are continuing to operate in an uncertain environment with no guarantee of what will happen tomorrow. By adopting a controlled and methodical approach to operating platforms with modern managed service organisations, businesses can ensure their platforms and technology investments are well managed, reliable, and resilient.”

There are four reasons organisations should continue building their cloud environment and evolving into the future:

One of the key drivers for moving to the cloud is to move away from a capital expenditure approach for IT, which constrains organisations and prevents them from responding to market changes in an agile manner. Instead, organisations prefer the operational expenditure approach that lets them pay for what they use. The more the business can optimise its cloud costs and usage, the more effectively the cloud environment will deliver benefits for the business.

Cybersecurity also plays a significant role in making the IT environment work for the business more effectively. In many cases, organisations don’t have a clear view of what’s on the network, how to lock the network down, and what access rights have been granted to users. This creates an enormous security risk. Moving to cloud-based security through existing Microsoft licensing, for example, can let businesses operate more securely while reducing costs.

A third and extremely valuable way in which cloud can benefit businesses is by providing the compute and storage power needed to solve business challenges. Hyperscale compute capabilities in the cloud make it possible for organisations to run computational-heavy loads at ultra-fast speeds that just wouldn’t be possible with traditional infrastructure. Analysing massive amounts of data more quickly lets businesses solve significant challenges more efficiently and cost effectively than in the past.