In the digital economy, the success of an enterprise can be measured by how quickly and reliably it deploys and updates internal and external applications. Customers demand agility and competitors quickly take advantage of stagnation.
But the path for executives is not clear. Moving to the cloud indeed gives flexibility. But should an enterprise “lift and shift” legacy applications? Or re-architect them while moving? Are managed services the right choice – or is lock-in something to be concerned about? What are the fundamental cultural impacts that executives need to address? In short, how can companies accelerate their digital transformation by embracing the cloud in the right way?
There is no simple recipe. However, a set of questions and criteria outlined by our CTO, Mark Porter, can help every C-suite navigate these decisions. Mark brings unique perspectives into how companies can best move to the cloud. He was formerly VP of Engineering at Oracle before undergoing his own cloud migration by moving to Amazon Web Services to help build its most popular cloud database services including RDS, the Database Migration Service, and Amazon Aurora.
The goal of this executive brief is to expose you to the breadth of issues that all enterprises are facing and arm you with a set of questions and considerations to take back to your organisation so you can iterate and validate your strategy.
