THERE WAS A TIME when almost every organisation, whether large or small, had an in-house IT team, primarily tasked with keeping the firm’s IT infrastructure functioning to ensure minimal downtime. While that used to be the target, in practice, most companies had to contend with numerous outages along with deploying skilled manpower in repair and maintenance tasks. Due to the technological limitations of the time, there was barely any in-house innovation of products and services, as skilled manpower was deployed elsewhere.
With the gradual advancement in technologies over the past two decades in areas such as software development, semiconductor design and technology, processor and bandwidth capacity, today, almost every company can claim to be a cloud and AI company where they are finding innovative uses of various cloud-enabled services. It’s not just start-ups and unicorns that are digital natives and leveraging these technologies to grow, but a wide range of large and small organisations in traditional sectors that are feeling an acute need of adopting a cloud-first strategy to innovate and grow.
Cloud adoption has accelerated the pace of digital transformation across organisations like governments, enterprises and start-ups, along with verticals across industry sectors such as BFSI, healthcare, manufacturing and retail, among others. And, this trend will only gather momentum over the next few years as cloud, or more specifically, multi-cloud adoption becomes mainstream with
