Riding the cloud wave: navigating the benefits and avoiding the pitfalls
Fujitsu / October 2, 2024
The allure of the cloud is undeniable. It promises enhanced agility, increased innovation, and the potential to unlock unprecedented business value. However, like navigating a powerful wave, riding the cloud wave requires skill, foresight, and the right equipment to avoid being pulled under. With global Digital Transformation spending projected to reach nearly $3.9 trillion by 2027, it's alarming that 70% of these initiatives still fall short of their objectives (source: "IDC Worldwide Digital Transformation Spending Forecast,” Nov 2023). The high rate of failure underscores the importance of strategic planning, effective execution and ongoing optimization.
So, how do you ensure you're riding the wave and not being crushed by it?
Challenges on the road to cloud transformation
We recognize that businesses face a myriad of challenges when embracing the cloud, from overcoming internal resistance to change to navigating complex technical landscapes towards a business value-driven cloud approach.
We divide them into the following categories:
• Strategic roadblocks: Building a compelling business case for cloud adoption, managing shadow IT, while aligning cloud strategy with technical-debt and sustainability goals.
• Migration headaches: Resource constraints, security concerns, and ensuring a smooth and efficient transition throughout automation, without disrupting operations.
• Management complexities: Lack of visibility and control over cloud environments, difficulty realizing promised benefits, and managing multi-platform deployments.
Overcoming these challenges is crucial to ensuring your cloud journey drives innovation and delivers lasting business value. This requires the right approach and expertise.
Not a destination, but a journey
We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach, as we need to address the unique needs of each business. Here's how we support your business:
1. Advise:
The journey begins with an in-depth assessment, which includes a Cloud Readiness Review and a Cloud Transformation Assessment, creating a solid and reliable case for change. By focusing on overcoming technical debt, the Application Balance Sheet and Code Cloud Readiness provide valuable insights into your applications, ensuring that the appropriate transformations are prioritized.
When sustainability is a core concern, a Carbon Impact Assessment adds a sustainability perspective to the transformation roadmap.
This phase helps organizations prepare for the future by identifying potential risks and opportunities, enabling a smooth and efficient migration and transformation.
2. Mobilize:
Once the case for change is established, we begin preparing the environments for your application migration and transformation journey. In this phase, we set up your cloud and transformation landing zone based on your specific security and application requirements. Automation is at the heart of our Springboard service, which automates the deployment, integration, and configuration of your cloud migration landing zone, whether for transformation, Kubernetes (K8s), DevOps, or DevEx. Our platform engineering accelerators further streamline automation.
This approach ensures that your cloud transformation is executed at scale, with an emphasis on sustainability, security, and scalability.
3. Realize:
This phase involves the simultaneous execution of two key processes: cloud migration and application modernization. Cloud migration - from the legacy infrastructure to the cloud environment – leverages the roadmap created during advisory stage to careful planning, risk assessment, and a phased approach to ensure minimal disruption to business operations. Application modernization can be accelerated by the adoption of emerging technologies as accomplished through Platform Engineering, deploying, integrating and configuring the necessary infrastructure, self-service developers portal and other tools to drive successful application transformation.
These services are what we call Fujitsu Cloud Transformation Services and they guide businesses through a structured journey, ensuring a smooth and successful transition.
Manage and optimize
After successfully migrating workloads to the cloud, the next crucial step is effective execution and robust benefits management. This is where Fujitsu Cloud Managed Service comes into play, offering a comprehensive suite of services to help businesses not only adopt the cloud - whether it's public, private, or hybrid - but also manage and optimize it effectively. Based on a set of modular and configurable cloud native components, uses automation to streamline not only the configuration of assets, but also to traditional operational activities and processes.
Focusing on empowering businesses to thrive in the cloud, manufacturer wants streamlined operations, healthcare is seeking for enhanced data security, and a retailer desires a seamless customer experience. You need a partner that understands your business and has a razor-sharp focus on business outcomes while managing complexity and mitigating risks.
Embracing the cloud with confidence
We have learned over the past years, that in many cases the cost of inaction or choosing an alternative is greater than the cost of our offering(s). This is particularly important in today’s fast-moving digital landscape, where the erosion of business value due to poor cloud adoption decisions can be swift and severe.
Whether you're just starting your cloud journey or looking to optimize an existing cloud environment, Fujitsu is here to guide you every step of the way.
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Cloud transformation is not a destination; it's an ongoing journey of innovation and optimization. Learn more about how cloud transformation can transform your business by visiting our website.
Fernando Almeida | LinkedIn
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