Why Your Cloud Strategy Needs a Data Strategy

Only by harnessing your data with the right platform will your cloud strategies succeed

Digital transformation is an existential necessity. No CXO needs to be convinced of its importance, as they’re all looking to innovate faster, more securely and with greater efficiency.

As such, organizations are turning to cloud infrastructure, platforms and services to evolve and remain competitive. But organizations must keep in mind that the apparent simplicity of adopting the cloud adds complexity through growing sets of data streams, applications and services to manage and secure.

This is especially true considering that different parts of an organization can be at varying stages in the journey. If it’s not done thoughtfully and with a data strategy at its core, the adoption of cloud technology fueling digital transformation can become a liability.

Download your copy of Why Your Cloud Strategy Needs a Data Strategy and discover how you can leverage the right data platform to ensure a data-first strategy that helps you:

  • Secure real-time visibility into the health and performance of critical business workloads in the cloud
  • Control costs and realize economic benefits as demands also grow
  • Maintain a strong security posture in the cloud
  • Adopt and operationalize emerging cloud-native technologies

Understanding the Relationship Between Cloud Management and Workload Placement

The decision of where to run applications has grown steadily more complex and cloudier over the past decade. On the heels of the transition from physical to virtualized infrastructure, public and private cloud infrastructure consumption models came to the fore. Cloud consumption allows end-users to provision, scale, and deprovision in a self-service fashion, bypassing weeks or even months of requirements gathering and solution procurement and integration. As cloud infrastructure has matured, organizational use has accelerated: 94% of organizations use public cloud services today (inclusive of both infrastructure- and software-as-a-service providers).