Benefits For Developers

The pandemic demonstrated that the digital transformation can no longer be delayed—and can happen much more quickly than previously imagined.

Nothing is more critical to a corporate digital transformation than becoming a cloud-first business. The benefits are faster time to market, simplif...

With cloud computing, organizations essentially buy a range of services offered by cloud service providers (CSPs). The CSP’s servers host all the client’s applications. Organizations can enhance their computing power more quickly and cheaply via the cloud than by purchasing, installing, and maint...

The cloud revolution has actually been going on for more than 15 years. Today, the next generation of cloud, including capabilities such as serverless computing, makes it easier for software developers to tweak software functions independently, accelerating the pace of release, and doing so more ...

 In 2020, the top-three CSPs(cloud service providers) reached $100 billion in combined revenues—a minor share of the global $2.4 trillion market for enterprise IT services—leavi...

Fortune 500 companies adopting the cloud could realize more than $1 trillion in value by 2030, and not from IT cost reductions alone, according to McKinsey’s analys...

Some cloud services, such as server space, are leased. Leasing requires much less capital upfront than buying, offers greater flexibility to switch and expand the use of services, cuts the basic cost of buying hardware and software up front, and reduces the difficulties of upkeep and ownership. O...

• A fast-casual restaurant chain’s online orders multiplied exponentially during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, climbing to 400,000 a day, from 50,000. One pleasant surprise? The company’s online-ordering system could handle the volume—because it had already migrated to the cloud.
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Three actions CEOs can take to increase the value their companies get from cloud computing:

• Establish a sustainable funding model.
• Develop a new business technology operating model.
• Set up policies to attract and retain the right engineering talent.

When companies migrate to the cloud, the simple lift-and-shift approach doesn’t reduce costs, so companies must remediate their existing applications to take advantage of cloud services.

Legacy cybersecurity architectures and operating models can also pose problems when companies shift to t...