The ROI of Cloud Adoption

In this blog post, we identify the benefits that should be realised when adopting cloud to support a digital transformation. We look at the cloud factors described in Part 1 in relation to the benefits that you must calculate when considering agile and automation benefits.

Essential Cloud Provider Selection Criteria for Digital Transformation

Through this second blog in a series of three blogs, we focus on the key steps you must follow when considering cloud adoption to support digital transformation (Read Part 1 here). We will review factors to consider when moving to a cloud compute platform, in terms of the benefits and avenues for exploration.

Cloud computing as it is known today has existed for circa 60 years. Its most well adopted and referenced definition is from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which states that ‘cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (such as networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.’