Improving speed to market and the ability to discover new revenue streams through cloud can increase profit growth by up to 11.2 percent.

Enterprises in six global regions will be looking to add up to US$414 billion in net new profits, annually, through effective cloud adoption, reported the latest research report by Infosys.

The Cloud Radar 2021 survey was conducted by the Infosys Knowledge Institute (IKI), a research arm of Infosys, with over 2,500 respondents from companies across US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand.

It covered a range of business performance goals related to cloud and found specific links to competencies such as speed to market and capabilities. A strong profit link was identified when using cloud to rapidly bring new solutions and services to market.

These investments provide a foundation to leverage AI & automation and build cloud based new sources of revenue.

The study found specific links between business profit growth and the use of cloud to rapidly develop and launch new solutions and bring new functionality to market. Cloud’s ability to generate new value from data and discover new revenue sources also links to profit growth.

Specifically, these benefits are derived from business’ ability to accelerate time to market, enhance business capabilities and build a competitive edge.

The study found that the highest performing businesses had annual profits growth that correlated with using cloud in six ways:

• Speed up how they develop and launch new solutions
• Add new functions to software in use
• Expand processing capacity
• Foster collaboration
• Unlock value from data via AI
• Discover new revenue sources.

Superior Cloud performance requires high levels of adoption and orchestration

Cloud-fuelled profit boosts can be attained by companies in any region or industry. However, they only kick in when businesses have at least 60 percent of their systems in the cloud. To benefit from AI on cloud, the bar is even higher. Businesses must have at least 80 per cent of their business functions – such as cross domain business applications – in the cloud for AI to boost profit growth.

Our research describes four distinct performance cohorts – minimally effective, effective, highly effective, and exceptional. Businesses can benchmark themselves against each cohort by exploring the cloud radar digital experience and learn how to improve their cloud strategy and performance.

Exceptional performers (16 per cent) use a larger mix of cloud service providers and more frequently employ hybrid cloud arrangements.

Highly effective performers (19 per cent) have shifted nearly as many business functions to the cloud as exceptional performers. They are motivated to use cloud for accelerating deployment of new solutions and services.

Effective performers (33 per cent) have rapidly shifted business functions to cloud but started with fewer business functions in cloud two years ago. This cohort is more focused on cloud for cost savings than better-performing peers.

Minimally effective performers (32 per cent) are least likely to use public cloud and have the least certainty in estimating cloud expenditures.

Despite acceleration in cloud adoption, only a fraction of large companies reached the highest level of performance and adoption. The Cloud Radar study found that nearly 1 out of 6 companies achieved exceptional cloud performance. In cloud adoption terms, fewer than one in five have crossed the 60 percent threshold to reap the profit benefits.

By 2022 about 40 percent of enterprises surveyed plan to shift over 60 percent of systems into the cloud, from 17 percent today.

Companies delivering exceptional performance in the cloud show a strong motivation to use cloud for business growth, namely, increasing speed to market, adding capabilities, and increasing scale. These exceptional performers also demonstrated greater confidence in terms of cloud spending and were more likely to engage with three or more cloud service providers, giving them the capability to place workloads optimally. They also more frequently utilize a hybrid multi-cloud arrangement – combining the best features of private and public cloud.

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Businesses started adopting cloud to host a wide array of applications.

The Indian public cloud services (PCS) market, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), revenue totalled US$3.6 billion for 2020, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker.

For the second half of 2020 (Jul-Dec), the Indian public cloud services market totalled US$1.9 billion. The overall Indian public cloud services market is expected to reach $9.5 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 21.5 per cent for 2020-25, said Rishu Sharma, Principal Analyst, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence, IDC India.

“Public clouds played a critical role for organisations in 2020, driven by business continuity, flexibility, and agility. The coming times will see enterprise objectives directed towards digital resiliency, and cloud will be the foundation to it all,” he said. “Cloud will become crucial as organizations expedite the development process and deployment of business applications to meet the changing work and business environment.”

SaaS continued to be the largest component of the overall public cloud services market, followed by IaaS and PaaS in 2020. The spending continues to accelerate, with the top two service providers holding 49 per cent of the Indian public cloud services market for 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to be the key driver of cloud adoption as enterprises continued their investments in cloud infrastructure, platforms, and software to improve the resiliency of their business operations and equip them to tackle successive waves of the pandemic.

As business objectives aim at gaining resiliency, IDC expects cloud adoption to be further accelerated for rapid digital innovation, said Harish Krishnakumar senior market analyst at IDC India.

“Even though enterprises in the country have been discussing cloud adoption for the past few years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced enterprises to expedite their cloud strategy. This accelerated cloud adoption in the country by several years,” said Krishnakumar. “Businesses started adopting cloud to host a wide array of applications ranging from email servers to many complex systems like data warehousing, advanced analytics, etc.”

He noted there was an increased migration of enterprise applications to the cloud.

“Moreover, the remote working induced by the pandemic propelled the demand for remote storage capabilities and also resulted in increased adoption of cloud-based collaboration tools, VDI applications, etc.,” he said.

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Finding out what’s wrong with buttercup with the help of cloud and IoT.

Australia has almost as many cattle as people. Add to the 24.7 million cattle in Australia, the 189,000 people who work in the red meat industry, the $15 billion gross value of the sector and it quickly becomes obvious that this is a big business.

Like any big business it faces challenges – not least is farmers knowing what’s up with Buttercup – where is she, what’s she doing, has she enough feed and water, is she calving? Farmers also want to understand if their herds are at risk from attack by wild dogs or cattle thieves, or facing biosecurity threats.

Darren Wolchyn is founder and CEO of Smart Paddock, a start-up agribusiness working to solve those challenges using its proprietary Bluebell tags and collars, which are solar powered and feature GPS, accelerometer and temperature sensors, and an innovative Microsoft cloud-based analytics platform.

Biometric data is collected on the tag, which operates as an Internet of Things sensor. The animal’s location can be found using GPS and data collected and analysed using Microsoft’s cloud.

The tag uses a sensor to measure temperature that provides much insight to the farmer. For example, a combination of raw data – temperature, accelerometer data and GPS – captured over time provides a good indicator of whether an animal is sick or calving. Cloud-based machine learning interprets the data for the farmer.

Wolchyn had used GPS technology to monitor the movement of golf carts as part of a fleet management system in his native Canada and when he moved to Australia, he decided to try using similar technology to track and monitor cattle movements.

With support from Telstra’s Muru-D accelerator program and the Microsoft for Startups initiative, Smart Paddock has continued to innovate and will release the latest version of its solution with a low-cost Bluebell tag at Beef Australia, the triennial cattle industry event being held in Rockhampton in May.

While the initial focus is on cattle, the solution could also be used to monitor sheep or other livestock – and as Smart Paddock’s technology runs on the Azure cloud, it could be exported anywhere in the world. Wolchyn expects his first overseas markets will be the US, Canada, then South America.

Instant insight

Data on the solar-powered tag is uploaded to the internet through LoRaWAN gateways.  These can collect data from tags within a 15km radius. For very large properties, LoRaWAN gateways would be set up at watering points that cattle would regularly visit. Smart Paddock is currently testing the use of helicopter- or drone-mounted gateways able to cover hundreds of thousands of hectares.

The data is used to locate each individual steer via GPS with satellite internet used in remote areas where there is no mobile coverage. The location alone can then be made available to the farmer via a mobile phone or app, and additional data also surfaced if needed.

Wolchyn said that the scale and reach of Microsoft Azure made it the clear cloud candidate. “We need to be able to pull in data from these animals in real time and do analysis on it.

Smart Paddock is also exploring how it can make further use of Microsoft IoT technology as well as edge computing, which will allow on-farm processing.

According to Wolchyn, “Being part of the Microsoft for Startups program allows us to spend more resources than we could afford and really test different things and different services from Microsoft to determine what the best approach is for us.”

In terms of connectivity, LoRaWAN gateways to the internet are currently being used; to access the information farmers also need internet connectivity. However Wolchyn said that the company is also looking at how it might be able to use Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to provide services for farms without mobile phone coverage.

“One of the things we’re really looking at is if we could drop these types of gateways down on the farm and they can be solar powered and satellite connected. You could literally drop them anywhere out in the in the world basically. So we’re really starting to look at using low Earth orbit satellites for backhaul connectivity,” he said.

While being able to locate cattle using GPS is important to farmers, it’s the array of additional insights and analytics that delivers the major value, said Wolchyn.

Analysing how far an animal is walking to find water and making that information instantly available to a farmer can be immensely useful. Understanding if a steer is moving properly can help farmers assess its health. Knowing when a cow is about to calve is really important.

The system interprets where the cow is in relation to its social group and the rest of the herd, and also monitors accelerometer data for signs of calving.

“We’re working with government agencies, with the NT Department of Primary Industries on a calving project,” Wolchyn explains. “They’re doing research on calving mortality and seeing why calves die out in the outback.

“They needed someone to help track these animals down to do the research so they approached Smart Paddock.

If the calving seems to be taking too long, the farmer can head out to assist the process. Even a 5 percent reduction in calf mortality could have a huge financial impact for farmers, and represent a significant improvement in animal health and wellbeing.

The apps that Smart Paddock has developed have been designed to operate online and offline, as farmers will regularly work in areas with no phone or internet connectivity.

When the farmer is within range, Wolchyn explains that, “It’s an alert-based system, so we are detecting issues whether they just stray outside the paddock and get out of the fence, then we send an alert, or if we detect that an animal is down or there could be an injury or illness with the animal, the system will send an alert to the farmer.

“They’ll open it, get their text alerts, click on it, open our app, see where the animal is.”

If there is the risk of flooding or bushfire, knowing exactly where a herd is can be critically important.

While Smart Paddock is still enhancing the system it is being tested on 15 farms and properties with about 1,200 cattle tagged.

At present, the focus is on livestock, but Wolchyn believes the system could become part of a broader smart-farm management system, adding in extra data for analysis about everything from water levels in dams and troughs, to farm equipment and vehicles.

“The other big thing we’re looking at is biosecurity in the future,” said Wolchyn. “So you might have an instance where we’ll be able to detect illness and illnesses and diseases to a certain level, if we see an outbreak in this area. This could be an early warning system.

“It’s really about gathering the biometric information about the animal, its location, what it’s doing, its status, its behaviours, its interaction with other animals.

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Dealing with cloud networking software.

With growing adoption SaaS and public cloud IaaS, it’s no shocker that we’re getting an increasing number of calls about cloud networking. However, the tenor of these calls is actively shifting from purely “TO” the cloud (i.e., SD-WAN); to now also include networking “IN” the cloud.

In a blog by Andrew Lerner VP analyst at Gartner, he notes Gartner has covered this topic before (No Forklifts), however interest in cloud networking has increased dramatically (nearly six times) in the past 12 months.

Lerner notes that one of the reasons for this is that the native networking capabilities of public cloud providers are insufficient for some production enterprise workloads.

“Similarly, the virtual routers offered by established vendors don’t often meet requirements of cloud and DevOps teams, particularly around programmability, integration, or licensing,” writes Lerner. “Further, the networking features and operational approaches vary widely across public cloud providers, which create management challenges, particularly in multicloud deployments.”

Lerner notes that this market is driven and influenced by non-working teams and have received calls enterprise architecture/technology innovation teams on the topic of cloud networking than from IT infrastructure and operations.

“We believe this is a new market, emerging separate and distinct from data centre networking/switching and routing/SDWAN,” writes Lerner.

A more technical definition is summerised by Lerner:

“Cloud networking software enables the design, deployment and operation of a network within multiple cloud environments. Organisations using cloud networking software can deploy it in one, or multiple, cloud environments, including public cloud(s), “private cloud(s)” and distributed cloud/edge locations. These products enable consistent networking policy, network security, governance and network visibility across multiple cloud environments via a single point of management. These products address traffic routing, secure ingress/egress, and integrate with available services These products are delivered as software, which can be self-managed and/or delivered as a service, and are accessible via APIs and UIs. They can utilise overlays and agents and/or orchestrate native cloud provider capabilities.”

According Lerner there’s a set of recommendations to help teams’ manoeuvre through this:

• Use a short-term planning horizon by signing contracts of 1-3 years in length (or using consumption-based options), as we expect the market to be dynamic with new entrants and a high level of innovation.
• Don’t forklift or replicate traditional data center networking strategies into the public cloud, as it will lead to integration and cost inefficiencies.
• Prefer the native capabilities of the cloud providers when starting out, and when there is a single-provider strategy.
• Invest in third-party cloud networking software when advanced networking features or consistency across clouds is critical.
• Prefer vendors that offer fully documented, public, open APIs, with a track record of reverse compatibility.

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Intelligent data platform, Seven Central, drives real-time responsiveness and innovation.

Seven-Eleven Japan is advancing its digital transformation strategy with Seven Central, its data cloud platform built on Google Cloud that consolidates and analyses data from its 21,000 stores across the country to drive real-time business decision making.

At its core, Seven Central’s purpose is to enable real-time data views to enable faster business decision making. It brings siloed point of sale (POS) data from Seven-Eleven Japan stores nationwide onto one centralised location in the cloud, and uses Google Cloud’s smart data analytics solutions like BigQuery to analyse data at petabyte scale and API management platform, Apigee, which provides a single unified API for all of its data cloud, said Izuru Nishimura executive officer and head of ICT Department at Seven-Eleven Japan.

By leveraging these technologies, Seven Central can scale their platform more efficiently and give their teams across the organization access to data and insights that were previously not accessible, which dramatically reduces time-to-insight that has a measurable impact to business operations.

“With Seven Central, each division in Seven-Eleven Japan can gain a real-time snapshot of any store’s data and business performance and respond accordingly,” said Nishimura. “In choosing to build our data cloud on Google Cloud, we prioritized service scalability, security, and openness to build an agile development system that can serve the needs of the organisation well into the future.”

In the first phase, Seven-Eleven Japan collected POS data from its existing network of 21,000 stores to enable real-time analysis. With both the volume of data and the regularity with which it is accessed likely to steadily increase in time, Seven-Eleven Japan designed Seven Central to be able to scale to up to 30,000 stores in the future. This ensures the platform can support the company’s future IT strategies and digital transformation initiatives.

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Intelligent data platform, Seven Central, drives real-time responsiveness and innovation.

Vodafone and Google Cloud have announced a six-year strategic partnership to drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, insights, and learnings to support the introduction of new digital products and services for Vodafone customers simultaneously worldwide.

In a significant expansion of their existing agreement, Vodafone and Google Cloud will jointly build a an integrated data platform with the added capability of processing and moving huge volumes of data globally from multiple systems into the cloud.

The platform, called ’Nucleus’, will house a new system – ‘Dynamo’ – which will drive data throughout Vodafone to enable it to more quickly offer its customers new, personalised products and services across multiple markets. Dynamo will allow Vodafone to tailor new connectivity services for homes and businesses through the release of smart network features, such as providing a sudden broadband speed boost.

Capable of processing around 50 terabytes of data per day, equivalent to 25,000 hours of HD film (and growing), both Nucleus and Dynamo, which are industry firsts, are being built in-house by Vodafone and Google Cloud specialist teams. Up to 1,000 employees of both companies located in Spain, the UK, and the United States are collaborating on the project.

Vodafone has already identified more than 700 use-cases to deliver new products and services quickly across Vodafone’s markets, support fact-based decision-making, reduce costs, remove duplication of data sources, and simplify and centralise operations.  The speed and ease with which Vodafone’s operating companies in multiple countries can access its data analytics, intelligence, and machine-learning capabilities will also be vastly improved.

By generating more detailed insight and data-driven analysis across the organisation and with its partners, Vodafone customers around the world can have a better and more enriched experience. Some of the key benefits include:

• Enhancing Vodafone’s mobile, fixed, and TV content and connectivity services through the instantaneous availability of highly personalised rewards, content, and applications. For example, a consumer might receive a sudden broadband speed boost based on personalised individual needs.
• Increasing the number of smart network services in its Google Cloud footprint from eight markets to the entire Vodafone footprint. This allows Vodafone to precisely match network roll-out to consumer demand, increase capacity at critical times, and use machine learning to predict, detect, and fix issues before customers are aware of them.
• Empowering data scientists to collaborate on key environmental and health issues in 11 countries using automated machine learning tools. Vodafone is already assisting governments and aid organisations, upon their request, with secure, anonymised, and aggregated movement data to tackle COVID-19. This partnership will further improve Vodafone’s ability to provide deeper insights, in accordance with local laws and regulations, into the spread of disease through intelligent analytics across a wider geographical area.
• Providing a complete digital replica of many of Vodafone’s internal support functions using artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. Called a digital twin, it enables analytic models on Google Cloud to improve response times to enquiries and predict future demand. The system will also support a digital twin of Vodafone’s vast digital infrastructure worldwide.

In addition, Vodafone will re-platform its entire SAP environment to Google Cloud, including the migration of its core SAP workloads and key corporate SAP modules such as SAP Central Finance, said Johan Wibergh CTO for Vodafone.

“Vodafone is building a powerful foundation for a digital future. We have vast amounts of data which, when securely processed and made available across our footprint using the collective power of Vodafone and Google Cloud’s engineering expertise, will transform our services, to our customers and governments, and the societies where they live and serve,” said Wibergh.

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Carrier VNF/CNF and NFVI markets to grow to more than US$29 Billion in 2025

Worldwide revenue for telecommunications network functions virtualisation (NFV) software, including virtual network functions (VNFs), network functions virtualisation infrastructure (NFVI), and cloud-native network functions (CNFs), will grow from a combined US$7.5 billion in 2020 to just over US$29 billion in 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.9 per cent over the 2020-2025 forecast period.

Despite the sustained headwinds from COVID-19 in 2020, communications service providers (SPs) continued to deploy VNFs as an adjunct to legacy physical network functions.

Additionally, the broader industry witnessed early instances of CNFs deployed in containers, primarily tied to the standalone 5G core as part of mobile network upgrades, giving rise to telco cloud infrastructure.

However, IDC does not expect material uptake for CNFs across comms SPs (wireless and wireline) until the latter part of the forecast.

While the VNF/CNF and NFVI markets have generally underperformed against expectations thus far, we expect 5G network rollouts to positively impact uptake, particularly across the latter portion of the forecast.

Additionally, virtualisation is incrementally seeing uptake across the core transport network, mobile backhaul, access network (cable and PON) and virtual CPE markets, particularly as multi-access edge computing (MEC) initiatives take hold, said Ajeet Das, research director, Carrier Network Infrastructure research at IDC.

“Communications SPs globally continue to gradually embrace network virtualisation technologies driven by the lower cost of ownership and elastic scaling of the network,” he noted. “Cloud-native network functions are now slowly being deployed alongside virtual network functions across cloud-based digital infrastructure so that the customer-centric services can be scaled, updated, and orchestrated easily, not only at the core but also at the edge of the network.”

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Poised to become fully Cloud enabled financial institute in the country.

A number of media outlets have reported that is aiming to become the first financial institution fully operable on the cloud in its home country.

UnionBank is a legacy AWS customer, and kicked off a transition to the cloud in 2018. The financial institute and the Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the banking industry has been receptive to and proactive in its use of new technologies to meet the changing needs of its clientele and make a difference in the lives of customers through smarter banking.

But for rural banks—a key Philippines banking segment—a lack of resources and inclusion with larger banking institutions have made it nearly impossible to thrive or even survive. The challenges rural banks face leaves a large majority of rural-based Filipinos with little or no banking access to conduct transactions, which include receipt of the remittance payments that account for up to 10 percent of the Philippines’ GDP.

The intersection of blockchain and banking

UnionBank is a pioneer in its use of blockchain technology and along with the BSP, it looks to use emerging technology to drive future banking practices and inclusivity in the Philippines, said Ramon Vicente V. de Vera, head of the FinTech Business Group at UnionBank.

“There are about 500 rural banks in the Philippines with a total of 2,600 branches, and they’re not connected to each other or a banking payment system,” he said, “Given their size and resources, they’re often considered second or third tier and are excluded financially.

We felt the social impact we could have by building a blockchain platform to connect rural banks to each other and to individuals would be profound for the Filipino population and banking industry.”

At the time UnionBank turned to ConsenSys, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner, to build a blockchain solution that offers rural banks a new way of doing business to drive growth, sustainability, and increase banking access for its citizens.

In January 2018, a team of UnionBank and ConsenSys employees flew to the municipality of Cantilan, in the province of Surigao del Sur in the Philippines. There they got a first-hand look at the challenges faced by a rural bank seeking to serve a population in which up to 70 million individuals who have no bank accounts or easy access to banking.

“The Cantilan bank experience was eye-opening for both of our teams,” said de Vera. “The Cantilan bank quickly came on board as one of five initial rural bank participants in a pilot to test the use of a remittances platform built using Kaleido on AWS.”

ConsenSys and UnionBank kicked off the aptly-named Project i2i to drive institution-to-institution, individual-to-individual, and island-to-island financial connectivity and domestic remittances, Project i2i introduces a domestic remittance network using tokens on a private blockchain platform.

Rural banks have shouldered the burden of manually processing tasks for domestic remittances and BSP compliance however they must perform the same compliance tasks as commercial banks, even with fewer personnel and information-gathering resources.

According to the BSP, about 80 percent of all rural banks have little or no integrated computerized systems for their core banking processes, while some have no systems at all. Project i2i’s blockchain-based processes will free up rural bank employees to serve more customers, rather than having to process back-office transactions and administrative tasks.

“We are leveraging blockchain to create this decentralised, cost-efficient, and near real-time network allowing for the execution of domestic payments that don’t rely on existing infrastructure and intermediaries,” said de Vera. “This will improve our clients’ experience and boost our local economy because they can now use trusted community banks to execute remittances faster and cheaper, instead of using pawn shops and other non-banks and paying unnecessary fees. And as an example, we can now move from more than 20 steps to execute a domestic remittance to than five or less.

“This result supports UnionBank’s goal of helping the rural institutions drive operational efficiencies and save costs in accepting and processing domestic remittances, with UnionBank initially facilitating the final settlement of remittances. As part of the project launch, ConsenSys and UnionBank began training rural banks on the technology and then onboarding participating banks for its pilot. The pilot launched with five rural bank participants in early June 2018.

Currently Union Bank deploys the AWS’ Simple Storage Service (S3), Glacier, and AWS Marketplace platforms.

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The cloud has inevitably emerged as a key focus for many business leaders.

Organisations are accelerating their cloud journey to take advantage of its flexibility, control costs, speed time-to-market, and simplify data management. Hybrid-cloud deployment remains the dominant choice, as more than a third of these organisations (35 per cent) use this model.

A recently released report from Denodo, private cloud has shown some vibrant usage, accounting for almost a quarter of all workloads (24 per cent), followed by public cloud, which remained almost flat at 16 per cent. Multi-cloud remains a popular choice for almost one in ten organisations (9 per cent) who opt to procure best of breed applications, data repositories, and infrastructure orchestration technologies among different cloud service providers to avoid a single vendor lock-in.

Even though the number of organisations with some level of cloud adoption remained steady year-over-year, the per centage of organisations that are moving advanced workloads to the cloud has increased by 25 per cent (19.59 per cent in 2021 vs. 15.48 per cent in 2020). While security and skills are still major concerns for organisations, the statistics clearly indicates that businesses are becoming more confident about moving their important workloads to the cloud and embracing cloud more than ever.

In terms of cloud providers, AWS and Asure still hold the lion’s share of the cloud market (65 per cent combined), while others like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are slowly catching up.

As a sizeable per centage of organisations are cautiously putting their first step into the cloud, Marketplaces are becoming very popular as almost half (45 per cent) are leveraging them to take advantage of various incentives, including low upfront investments and risks. Utility/pay-as-you-go pricing is the most popular motivation at 35 per cent followed by its self-service capability/ability to minimise IT dependency (25 per cent), and simplified procurement (14 per cent). Avoiding a long-term commitment was also a motivator at 6 per cent.

Companies are using cloud for various use cases with the top two popular being analytics and infrastructure usage, and AI/ML. AI/ML and stream processing use cases are showcasing their importance on how businesses are using those technologies for their day-to-day operations, as year-over-year growth for each ranged between 50 and 100 per cent. Close to 50 per cent participants leverage multiple solutions for data integration in the cloud, the most popular ones being data lakes, ETL pipeline, cloud data warehouse and object storage.

As organisations embrace cloud faster than ever, IT processes are becoming more automated and agile through the adoption of microservices and containers. Fifty per cent of survey respondents indicated that they are using Docker for automation and portability. Kubernetes adoption is also increasing at a steady pace, because for many organisations, hundreds and at times thousands of microservices span both on-premises IT environments and multiple clouds.

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Utilising the cloud to operate in a highly regulated industry.

Australian energy company, ATCO Australia has moved their information management solutions to the OpenText Cloud to modernise work for improved flexibility and cost savings.

Operating in a highly regulated industry, ATCO uses OpenText Extended ECM Platform to manage, secure and govern their information assets, from legal and operational documents to contracts and work orders. Recently, the company shifted their information management system from on-premises to the OpenText Content Cloud to gain efficiency.

Chris Marshall general manager IT at ATCO Australia said the company uses the cloud service to access and govern documents in our information management system, which OpenText looks after for us.

“By moving to the cloud, access speeds are much faster—almost twice as fast. Additionally, we are now using the latest features and functionality with integration into leading business applications like Microsoft 365,” he said.

Marshall notes OpenText Cloud Managed Services help organisations modernise their IT by leveraging the expertise of seasoned professionals.

“OpenText manages the deployment, integration, ongoing management and optimisation of Information Management applications and infrastructure — with the flexibility to deploy in the OpenText Cloud or with an OpenText public cloud partner, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services,” he said.

Additionally, remote access to documentation and external sharing was essential to keep ATCO’s operations running smoothly during the pandemic. With the Extended ECM mobile app, employees have access to information stored in OpenText Extended ECM from anywhere, on almost any device. OpenText Core Share enables field workers to access and share up-to-date information, including safety procedures.

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