CIOs in organisations around the world are embracing digital transformation to reinvent their organisations' processes and systems, and one of the most disruptive technology trends identified includes cloud.
In fact, the benefit of cloud services is no longer in question, with research revealing that six out of 10 organisations are convinced that cloud can solve their business challenges.
So says Kevin Krige, Advise Compute, BT Global Services SSA, who will presenting on 'Harness this new technological power and make it work for them' at the ITWeb Data Centre Summit at The Forum in Bryanston on 20 July.
Further research has shown that by 2018, at least half of IT spending will be on cloud-based services. "However, many organisations still have barriers to overcome, especially around security and compliance concerns, where it has been reported that 32% of enterprises do not have the in-house skills to actually manage cloud migrations," he adds.
So if organisations want to harness this new 'technology power', they need a means to benefit from the commercial, and flexibility promises of cloud, while still maintaining control of the underlying infrastructure, applications and data, asserts Krige.
Speaking of what businesses should be doing differently in light of this new power, he says Gartner has revealed that nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017.
"This is likely due to the fact that private cloud is becoming more of a reality for many businesses. Considering that there are challenges and benefits of migrating to cloud services, organisations should be looking at data centre transformation roadmaps, which enable a business to create, deploy, monitor and manage their own cloud service through the data centre, to realise maximum value."
He says this means that businesses will need a controlled migration to cloud-like services, which is likely to yield more immediate benefits, and will give them the ability to maintain greater control over their cloud environment. "Of course, all of this needs to be driven from the application landscape if companies want to ensure the most appropriate service and deployment models for cloud are being used."
During his presentation, Krige will speak to delegates about the benefits of a data centre transformation approach - over a pure cloud roadmap, as well as the importance of a cloud service integrator, in the journey to the cloud.
In addition, a real customer case study will highlight a BT unique offering, which allows organisations to benefit from cloud services now, while still maintaining control of their applications and data on a dedicated platform - all within their own data centre.
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