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Transforming Businesses with Cloud
Transforming Businesses with Cloud

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Over the past couple of decades advances in technology and bandwidth capacity have enabled organizations to discover creative ways to use various Cloud-enabled services. Many large and small organizations in conventional sectors feel a pressing need to embrace a Cloud-first strategy to innovate and develop. Start-ups and unicorns are leading the charge in use of Cloud and AI to become digital natives.

To stay ahead of the curve, we implemented Smart Cloud Transformation (SCT) program in India, with focus on migrating workloads. The three main migration streams that took the goal forward were – modernize, re-host and Lift & Shift. It gave us the opportunity to transform our infrastructure and enable availability of services in multiple geolocations. The implementation of the program required collaboration with global teams resulting in application deployment agility and innovative solutions to create technology stacks for modernization.

Cloud leapfrogged considerably over the last decade with best-in-class processors. The journey towards Cloud has been exciting, with achievements like the introduction of AadharStack, the execution of UPI, and National Digital Platforms. Cloud has been the bedrock of digital transformation. For example, our Security & Architecture teams migrated applications into Cloud by creating scalable and secure architecture for our future growth in Cloud while maintaining business critical aspects intact like orders, transactions, raw material planning for breweries, supply chain and shipment management, during the transformation. While on this path towards our digital transformations, we understood some of the biggest advantages of moving to Cloud.  

 

Advantages of leveraging Cloud for businesses: 

  1. Economical: Once the businesses started using Cloud, easy access to their company's data enabling faster infrastructure ramp-up, thereby bringing down cost efficiency. Cloud computing provides natural economies of scale, allowing businesses to pay only for what they need. This reduces costs by optimizing software licenses and hardware or storage purchases on-premises or within the data center.

 

  1. Environmentally friendly: With focus on achieving its ESG missions of maintaining a small carbon footprint, Cloud-based services are proving to be highly environmentally friendly. Using a pay-per-use virtual environment for data storage and running web applications means less energy consumption and carbon emissions in the workplace. Cloud computing also reduces physical hardware needs, which means less IT equipment is required in the office.

 

  1. Flexibility: A high level of flexibility is provided to companies that invest in Cloud-based services. Remote Cloud servers offer almost unlimited bandwidth and storage space, which allows businesses to instantly scale up and down their capacities to support growth and cope when website traffic increases. This removes the need to purchase and install equipment and upgrades on-site. Cloud computing also allows for improved workplace flexibility, as employees can access applications and data on a remote server off-site, anywhere, and at any time, if an internet connection is available.

 

  1. Insight: As we move into the digital age, it's becoming more apparent that the adage "knowledge is power" has taken on a more modern and accurate form: "Data is money." Hidden within the millions of bits of data surrounding your customer transactions and business process are nuggets of invaluable, actionable information waiting to be identified, analyzed and actioned. Of course, sifting through that data to find these kernels can be very difficult unless you have access to the right Cloud-computing solution.

 

Leveraging Cloud as both a technology platform and an operational model, India will be among the fastest-growing market for Cloud service providers globally due to the advantages and the robust demand from large enterprises, digital natives, and small and medium businesses. 

 

 

 

About the Author

 

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Karthik Sethuraman- Director DC & Cloud Infrastructure Operations, AB InBev GCC

 


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