Cloud: The catalyst for innovation
About this Issue
The evolution of cloud is here. Beyond cost savings, cloud is being adopted to drive innovation and implement new business models. It's a business platform used by agile, resilient companies to harness the power of next-gen technologies like generative AI. This issue highlights the findings from the HCLTech research study — Cloud Evolution: Make innovation a habit — and covers multiple aspects of the next stage of the cloud transformation journey.
Featured Article
Cloud evolution is here
Cloud is now seen as the crucial ingredient in driving new business models, innovations, platforms and customer offerings. No longer just a scalable and cost-effective way of delivering computing, executive boards needs to think about cloud more deeply to avoid getting left behind.
Articles
From cost savings to business transformation
Moving excess workloads to the cloud for the singular purpose of saving money is done. Now, the hard work of implementing transformative business decisions in the cloud is ramping up
Generative AI: A human-algorithm symphony orchestrated in the cloud
Generative AI is the trend on everyone’s mind. To truly take advantage of this game-changing technology, it must be adopted and used with the right data and cloud strategy
Be smarter in a cloud-enabled business
Cloud has revolutionized IT for individuals and organizations alike and it is enabling a propagation of new business models for a digital age
Looking to the cloud at SGX Group
Tinku Gupta, Chief Technology Officer at Singapore Exchange (SGX Group), uncovers how the organization plans to future-proof its business model and adopt cloud services where relevant, particularly for sustainability and capability benefits
Automation is the cloud cure for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Joe Friedrichsen, Managing Director Infrastructure and Operations at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, reveals how the organization has embraced cloud and automation to drive a better business and member experience
From code to cloud: Maintaining security on this transformation journey
Deploying and securing cloudnative applications requires a holistic approach by embedding security throughout the application lifecycle. An effective protection platform that addresses security needs at each stage of application development and deployment ensures better visibility and risk control to help businesses on their cloud journeys
An AWS guide: Ensure successful transformation by getting cloud adoption right
Everyone knows the value of the cloud. But that doesn’t mean everyone gets cloud adoption right. In this article, AWS unpacks the key strategies needed to ensure a successful cloud transformation journey
The rise of industry cloud
Today, cloud adoption is typically delivered across industries as a standardized service. But, to meet industry-specific demands, businesses are increasingly turning to contextualized services to address pain points and growth ambitions. Industry cloud ensures shortened adoption cycles, quick delivery of ROI, solutions to business problems and the generation of new business models
Navigating global regulations with sovereign cloud
Sovereign cloud has emerged as a key area of interest as companies seek intelligent solutions to obtain digital sovereignty. Sovereign cloud computing architecture provides data access in compliance with national laws and regulations
Accelerating Merck’s journey to cloud for continuous modernization
In a shared session at AWS re:Invent 2022, Merck—the pharmaceutical innovator—shared the impact of adopting continuous modernization for the cloud with the help of HCLTech
Excerpts
Legacy is dragging the consumption of cloud. Legacy transformation requires a more complex architecture and there are greater restrictions, especially when it comes to things like compliance and security. Today, organizations are focusing on the capabilities and applications already in the cloud, which has created a bit of slowdown in consumption. . The easy things to modernize have been completed and now the modernization journey is harder."
The technology is learning while it builds hypotheses and generates code and content. It can transform many areas including storytelling, summarization, code generation, code assistance and even computer graphics. Traditionally, these areas took people a lot of time. But that’s not the case anymore”
We want to retain the strengths that our market participants trust us for, which are reliability and availability, and at the same time, embrace the improvements that cloud can bring to the transformation and future- proofing of business models,”
Contributors
Ankur Shah
Joe Friedrichsen
Tinku Gupta
Chief Technology Officer, Singapore
Exchange (SGX Group)
Sarita Borgenicht
Kalyan Kumar (KK)
Prabhakar Appana
SVP & Global Head of
AWS Business Unit
Ryan Seaman
Siki Gunita
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