Published By: Hitachi EMEA
Published Date: Nov 11, 2019
The cloud journey today is well past the initial adoption phase. The question for most organizations is not ‘if cloud’ but ‘what’ and ‘when’; and ensuring that the strategy it embarks on achieves its business goals. This strategy is aiding organizations in transforming their operations and making them more digital and agile. Replacing your IT infrastructure with a cloud first approach, or even integrating both approaches, can be a daunting task.This white paper discusses the key factors to consider when migrating to the cloud.
Distributed cloud architectures will play an important role in Communication Service Providers’ network transformations. The distributed cloud will be made of numerous edge locations, from the customer premises to mobile base stations to central offices, each of which has its benefits and constraints. CSPs will need to consider attributes such as performance, availability, security, integration, and data and traffic volume to optimize the infrastructure for a myriad of workloads. Learn more about Heavy Reading’s survey results on CSPs adopting a distributed cloud strategy and delivering new services in this white paper.
As an IT leader, we know you have the desire to help the business deliver more and do better. Yet, it’s a tough and often a complex journey. There is no doubt you’ve heard of Hybrid Cloud, but do you know what outcomes it can deliver for your business?
The fact remains, Hybrid Cloud strategy implementation is challenging – there are no two ways about it. But what it offers are cost simplification, increased flexibility, reliability, and assurances around security and regulatory compliance. However, this assumes hybrid cloud has been planned and implemented in the correct way, which almost certainly requires outside help. If you’re considering Hybrid Cloud, tick off the right boxes to build your business case; learn about how to make the next move, the right one.
Published By: Rackspace
Published Date: Nov 06, 2019
Insights into avoiding migration regret amongst CxO’s:
The decision to move business workloads and applications to the cloud impacts all parts of the business and isn’t a decision isolated to the IT team.
Our latest research study on the different motives, concerns and experiences of executive peers and business stakeholders when securing buy-in for a strategic IT move found 97% of C-level executives in ANZ suffered from migration regret during their first cloud migration.
Packed with telling hindsight, over 200 c-suite executives shared their expectations and experiences during the cloud migration journey. They reveal what they would have done differently - namely enhanced communication and a clear plan of action - and offer practical advice to help others get buy-in internally and secure funding to support a move to the cloud.
Published By: MicroStrategy
Published Date: Nov 05, 2019
Organizations are embracing cloud-based solutions at an unprecedented rate. The transition to a
cloud-first strategy is no longer viewed as a luxury but as a necessity for businesses to compete.
According to a 2018 study, cloud computing will have the biggest impact on analytics initiatives,
followed by big data, AI and machine learning, and IoT. Because today’s state-of-the-art solutions will
likely be quickly outdated, organizations now want to invest in systems that can meet their changing
needs. Attributes like flexibility and agility will allow these businesses to seamlessly tackle changing
business requirements.
Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications.
Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders:
- Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)
- Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings
- Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy
- Calculate migration costs
- Define success metrics
Published By: Workday
Published Date: Jul 30, 2019
For many organizations, deploying a new Cloud ERP system is a great opportunity to upgrade technology, streamline processes, and refine strategy. This guide can offer actionable advice to get the most out of your deployment and set you up for a successful journey from the get-go.
Achieving a value-based digital transformation in the contact center isn’t just about adopting new technology – it’s about finding, implementing, and optimizing the right technology to gain the most value for the company, its employees, and most importantly, the customer.
It all starts with a tactical cloud migration plan that’s rooted in an unbreakable alignment of business goals, IT strategy, and customer needs. This 7-point digital planning workbook was designed by TTEC’s Center for Customer Excellence to help facilitate richer, more productive CX transformation discussions between IT and business leaders.
Don’t let misalignment derail your digital transformation efforts. Snag your FREE copy of The Ultimate CX & Digital Transformation Workbook for Contact Centers today! Learn how to create cross-company alignment to develop a strategic customer engagement plan that forms the basis for a successful value-based transformation.
"IT needs to reach beyond the traditional data center and the public cloud to form and manage a hybrid connected system stretching from the edge to the cloud, wherever the cloud may be. We believe this is leading to a new period of disruption and development that will require organizations to rethink and modernize their infrastructure more comprehensively than they have in the past.
Hybrid cloud and hybrid cloud management will be the key pillars of this next wave of digital transformation – which is on its way much sooner than many have so far predicted. They have an important role to play as part of a deliberate and proactive cloud strategy, and are essential if the full benefits of moving over to a cloud model are to be fully realized."
• Enterprise Content Management is a market in transition. And as demand for modernization becomes widespread, long-time leaders are investing in new capabilities to keep up — and bringing more of the market to the cloud to meet the needs of users and IT managers alike.
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• This report shows how a range of providers measure up to help companies make the right choice when
• requirements are skewed to the needs of information workers who need to create, collaborate on, share, and find enterprise content.
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• Use the 2017 Forrester Wave™ report to:
o Get educated. Gain an understanding of how the ECM market is changing and why complex, on-premises ECM suites are giving way to Cloud Content Management platforms like Box.
o Define your needs. Forrester ranks the top 15 ECM business content vendors based on current offerings, strategy and market presence to help you evaluate vendors that suit your needs.
o Select a vendor. Learn how cloud content management platforms like Box are designed
more people than ever before. Whether it's your employees, partners or customers, all your people use enterprise content. And that means content management is becoming increasingly top-of-mind — but companies find it difficult to get it right. In this newsletter, Gartner shares how cloud content management helps you build your content management strategy from the bottom up, enabling you to:
o Improve company-wide collaboration and become more customer-centric
o Scale your business and reduce cost
o Provide security and stability for your entire organization
• Download the full Gartner newsletter, Reshaping ECM: New Opportunities in the Cloud. You'll learn about the emerging requirements of top ECM vendors, as well as discover real-world use cases of Cloud Content Management.
You’re likely fast-tracking hybrid cloud to increase agility and reduce cost. But it’s a challenge to define the right mix of private cloud, public cloud, and traditional IT that best drives your enterprise strategy. HPE has the right hybrid cloud expertise, technologies, and partners to get you there faster.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise works with you to provide your organization the Right Mix of hybrid infrastructure— that optimizes economics and accelerates your time to value. Download now to learn more.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise works with you to provide your organization the Right Mix of hybrid infrastructure that enhances economics and accelerates your time to value.
In the age of the customer, businesses realize the need to take their big data insights further than they have before, in order to win, serve, and retain their customers. Today’s modern company has more data than ever before and is now looking to derive insights from the data that will help propel it forward. As firms move data analytics to the cloud, there is a new set of challenges and barriers to overcome, but with the help of insights-platforms-as-a-service, companies will be able to innovate with data and drive business forward.
Content marketing is driving the way marketing organizations are engaging their audiences. In our consumer-empowered world, it’s become more difficult for marketers to cut through clutter and a lot more challenging to garner loyalty with their audiences. That’s why smart content delivered in context will make you stand out in the crowd. Read the modern marketing essentials guide on Content Marketing now.
View the Journey to the Cloud: SAP Strategy and Roadmap for Cloud and Hybrid Analytics Scenario webinar to find out leading innovations and future opportunities for your organisation.
Read Forrester's inaugural Wave for Omnichannel Demand-Side Platforms to learn why Adobe is a leader. Adobe Advertising Cloud received top scores in product strategy and digital ecosystem footprint, and achieved the highest scores in 14 criteria.
Published By: Oracle CX
Published Date: Oct 19, 2017
Business Enterprises today need to become more agile, meet new and
increasing workload and security requirements, while reducing overall IT cost
and risk. To meet these requirements many companies are turning to cloud
computing. To remain competitive companies need to formulate a strategy
that can easily move them from traditional on-premises IT to private or public
clouds. A complete cloud strategy will likely include both private and public
clouds because some applications and data might not be able to move to a
public cloud. Moving to the cloud should not create information silos but
should improve data sharing. Any cloud strategy should make sure that it is
possible to integrate on-premises, private cloud and public cloud data and
applications. Furthermore, any on-premises cloud deployments must be able
to easily migrate to public cloud in the future
Published By: Oracle CX
Published Date: Oct 19, 2017
Business Enterprises today need to become more agile, meet new and
increasing workload and security requirements, while reducing overall IT cost
and risk. To meet these requirements many companies are turning to cloud
computing. To remain competitive companies need to formulate a strategy
that can easily move them from traditional on-premises IT to private or public
clouds. A complete cloud strategy will likely include both private and public
clouds because some applications and data might not be able to move to a
public cloud. Moving to the cloud should not create information silos but
should improve data sharing. Any cloud strategy should make sure that it is
possible to integrate on-premises, private cloud and public cloud data and
applications. Furthermore, any on-premises cloud deployments must be able
to easily migrate to public cloud in the future.
A new industrial revolution is barreling ahead, fueled by the Internet of Everything, social media, and cloud computing - bringing about fundamental changes in the way that we live and act. CIOs today are in a unique position to utilize technology to create business value and opportunity. This requires a careful balance of the traditional skills of the CIO, managing the data center infrastructure while driving business strategy and impacting the customer experience.
The Dell EMC PowerEdge server systems are the CIO’s key tools in this transformation. They are the bedrock of the modern data center – providing scalable system architectures that ensures control of the IT lifecycle while delivering a cyber-resilient environment.
Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.
The term “Cloud First” was initially popularized by Vivek Kundra, who formerly held the post of White House CIO and launched this strategy for U.S. federal government IT modernization at the Cloud Security Alliance Summit 2011. The underlying philosophy of the cloud-first strategy is that organizations must initially evaluate the suitability of cloud computing to address emergent business requirements before other alternatives are considered.
This paper offers guidance to help organizations establish a systematic and repeatable process for implementing a cloud-first strategy. It offers a high-level framework for identifying the right
stakeholders and engaging with them at the right time to reduce the risk, liabilities, and inefficiencies that organizations can experience as a result of adhoc cloud decisions. The goal of this guidance is to help ensure that any new cloud program is secure,
compliant, efficient, and successfully implements the organization’s key business initiatives.
