HCLTech’s latest cloud research, Cloud Evolution: Make innovation a habit, presented several key findings that suggested cloud is essential in helping organizations drive innovation and continuous modernization. However, it was also made clear that not all businesses, whether due to business-IT misalignment, security concerns or a lack of culture, are taking advantage of cloud.

Looking to explore this topic further, Alan Flower, Executive Vice President – CTO and Global Head, Cloud Native & AI Labs at HCLTech and Siki Giunta, Executive Vice President, CloudSMART, Offerings Strategy, Industry Cloud Consulting at HCLTech, sat down to discuss a variety of themes that emerged from the cloud research.

This included cloud’s bigger purpose of transforming business, the importance of IT and business getting on the same page with cloud, the business case for cloud: FinOps and what the future holds.