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FINAL WORD
Decisions are
made in the
cloud, now we
must act
Cloud technology is providing businesses
with an advanced level of efficiency
through its development, with many
respondents now adopting a
‘cloud-first’ approach.
L
ate in 2017, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced
plans to appoint a Chief Digital Officer tasked with making
London the world’s leading smart city. Khan referenced how
technology is being used to enable organisations to make faster,
better decisions and the truth is, most of that decision-making
process is taking place in the cloud.
You only have to look at the recent financials from the likes of
Amazon and Microsoft to see how rapidly cloud adoption is taking
hold. AWS revenue has increased more than 55% year on year, while
Azure is expected to deliver around $20 billion in 2018.
In the UK, both cloud giants have recently brought data centres
online which, less than a year since the Brexit referendum sparked
industry fears over tech giants investing in the country, suggests
digital transformation initiatives are continuing unabated. Indeed,
recent research conducted by Computing and Colt proposes that it’s
difficult to overstate the momentum of the move to the cloud.
Historically speaking, when the research was first conducted in
2013, more than two-thirds of respondents were not using the
cloud at all. But by 2016, 63% had partial cloud adoption and,
in 2017, 20% are now pursuing a ‘cloud-first’ strategy. By 2019,
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