{"id":43401,"date":"2016-12-16T18:52:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=43401"},"modified":"2016-12-19T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T06:54:32","slug":"how-to-leverage-cloud-for-successful-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/how-to-leverage-cloud-for-successful-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Leverage Cloud for Successful Digital Transformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have witnessed a massive technological evolution over the years. From Social Media \u00a0to IOT, Mobility and Cloud – emerging platforms, products, ideas and technologies have changed both the organizations and the consumers. Evolving digital technologies<\/a> have transformed consumer behaviour which in turn has led to a demand for a dynamic, Agile and customer centric businesses.<\/p>\n

In this dynamic world, stagnant organizations can easily lose out to competition.\u00a0The only way organizations can survive disruption and transform their business models is by digitally transforming themselves. Digital transformation <\/a>can bring business agility helping to remain competitive.<\/span><\/p>\n

An important component of a successful digital transformation strategy is your IT infrastructure overhaul and modernization, moving away from the legacy and traditional systems. Of the many digital advances, Cloud DevOps<\/a> adoption has seen a tremendous growth enabling organizations with an easy and swift IT overhaul. Organizations are embracing Cloud owing to its many benefits such as cost efficiency, scalability, flexibility and more.<\/p>\n

According to a report from Cloud Industry Forum, \u201c79% of respondents whose organisations have implemented a Digital Transformation strategy say that Cloud is important\/very important to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rightscale 2016 State of the Cloud Report<\/a> also echoes the fact stating \u201cOf 1040 technology respondents 95% are using Cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Organizations are blending private, public and on-premise solutions to achieve the goal of modernization and IT environment. However, implementing Cloud and leveraging it for Digital Transformation is challenging. Moving the applications to Cloud or developing new digital products using Cloud is a complex process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you can leverage Cloud for digital transformation:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Understanding the benefits of adopting Cloud<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Cloud adoption has significantly increased over the years. \u00a0Businesses evolving in nature with fluctuating needs can resort to Cloud as it facilitates flexibility to scale up or down basis the requirements. With Cloud, there is no need of procuring hardware thereby reducing the total cost of ownership. Cloud also provides enhanced collaboration, quick disaster recovery and immense mobility with boundary-less IT environment. \u00a0Cloud is fundamental to IT infrastructure modernization.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Considering technical aspects of IT modernization – <\/b>The entire process of infrastructure modernization starts with planning of hardware and software inventories. The next step is to identify the IT and business processes to be changed, design the environment, and check if there is a need to engage an external vendor. However, prior to going ahead with Cloud deployment<\/a>, pen down the migration goals. After a thorough cost benefit analysis, proceed \u00a0with the Cloud deployment and migrate the data and systems to the new setup.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A few things to consider for vendor selection:<\/p>\n