Growing complexity of cloud infrastructure Earlier this year Oracle surveyed over 1500 IT leaders from enterprises in several technology-focused markets including India. Perhaps surprisingly for some, 98% of Indian enterprises in the survey confirmed that they were using 2 cloud service providers and 33% were actually using as many as 4 cloud providers. The complexity […]
Role of infrastructure in Digital Transformation The early narrative about enterprise digital transformation was framed in very ambitious terms. The conversation was about how enterprises could adopt new (at the time!) digital frameworks to innovate completely new business models and dramatically change long-held ways of working. Over time, those ambitions were scaled down just a […]
Reality of the extended workplace A recent survey suggested that as many as 95% of Indian enterprises will continue to implement work from home to some degree over the year as well. I’m not sure of the sample size and the demographics included in the survey, but let’s agree that remote working will continue for […]
Managing cloud costs Nearly half of the 1000 respondents to a survey said that their cloud costs were higher than what they expected. Another 100 said that they were way higher than they expected, meaning that 6 out of 10 companies were spending more than they expected on their cloud. To an extent, those organizations […]
Expectations from technology partners What do mid-sized companies want from their technology partners? Given that we have been fulfilling this role for over 20 years now, I guess I’m as well placed as anyone to answer this question. So, let me give it a shot. Most of the leaders I meet are acutely aware of […]
Application modernization and infrastructure modernization Enterprise CIOs talk a lot about application modernization. On their agenda are things improving the UI/UX of enterprise applications, modern technologies like microservices, and moving their application stack and data storage to the cloud. This is a valid concern given the need to enable employee performance and gain enterprise agility […]
Managing complex IT environments with AIOps AIOps brings intelligence and automation to the management of complex IT environments. The technology approach is helping IT teams plan better, manage more effectively, and understand more about what goes on within their IT environments so that they can ensure application performance at the desired levels. There is now […]