The CDO's Perspective
Welcome to the next-level of cloud innovation
How cloud innovations are tearing up the digital rule book
The cloud and digital transformation are often seen as the stellar twins of today’s business universe. And, like twins, they learn from one another. For example, cloud first appeared as an IT problem quick-fix. Have a lot of not-very-valuable data and nowhere to store it? Put it in the cloud. Got a load of compute-hungry, low-level apps and running out of space? The cloud’s the thing for them too.
Cloud’s evolution
Those early mindsets have changed now. Over the last few years cloud computing technology has grown and matured, providing strong foundations for digital transformation initiatives. For instance, a business can’t operate effectively when the app is in one place and the user is half a world away. That led to cloud edge technology, placing processing power closer to where it’s needed, complemented by sophisticated communications networks. Shared operating systems in virtual environments slow down response times. So, containerisation came about, to speed applications development lead times. Compliance issues may arise if data has to live in a multi-tenanted environment because regulatory bodies want certain data to be stored separately. Private clouds thus entered the fray, enabling hybrid multi-cloud architectures for sectors like financial services to engage in new ways with digitally-savvy, always-connected customers.
Srinivasan CR
Chief Digital Officer, Cloud & Cyber Security Services
Digital Transformation Head Tata Communications
The next phase of growth for cloud – and enterprises
Now, to extend my metaphor, an extra-exuberant baby brother has joined the twins: DevOps. As the role of IT in propelling business success grows, more software investment becomes inevitable. One need only look at today’s hunger for APIs – and the eagerness of suppliers to offer them – to see the truth in that. DevOps in the cloud will see organisations experimenting like never before, taking digital transformation to new heights. I see that as an everyone-wins scenario and, at Tata Communications, we understand and enable such shifts. We also know keeping the business protected against growing cyberthreats is crucial to the success of new digital services.
Overleaf, in our hybrid multi-cloud portfolio for digital transformation you’ll find private cloud technology rubbing shoulders with enterprise-grade storage, while container-as-a-service meets big data. That frees businesses to innovate. Take Khimji Ramdas case study for example. Looking to gain business agility while balancing corporate risk, it took a bold leap into the cloud. Or what about Auto & General case study. Aiming to open new businesses in Singapore and Thailand, IZO™ Private Cloud provided the enabling platform. Outstanding success stories like these populate the pages of this book, showing how customers worldwide use our digital technology to drive growth and transform the way they operate and engage with their customers.
Srinivasan CR
Chief Digital Officer, Cloud & Cyber Security Services
Digital Transformation Head Tata Communications
What’s different about digital transformation today is the way business and IT executives are working more closely together, amid growing recognition that technology can’t be ignored when aiming to reach and exceed corporate objectives.
That’s why we think cloud hybridisation has emerged as the key digital transformation enabler. Because, while digital transformation revolutionises legacy systems, DevOps forms the crucible in which that happens. And true business agility comes from private clouds, public clouds and data centres operating cohesively as an end-to-end integrated architecture.
Those thoughts were front of mind when we designed our hybrid multi-cloud portfolio, to encourage a reinforcing cycle of innovation, leveraging analytics-based intelligence, for a world in which experimentation quickly becomes business as usual.
All your cloud needs, covered
Intended to offer the best of all worlds, our hybrid multi-cloud portfolio is an industry-leading one stop shop for all your cloud needs. Everything in it is digital transformation-ready and always evolving.
Our container-as-a-service revolutionises software delivery and DevOps adoption, and gives your business the agility to outperform the market. Above all, in the Tata Communications world, a self-service management console integrates different IT environments into a single dashboard and offers visibility and control across all cloud resources. It also supervises cybersecurity across the entire IT estate, and provides the ability to mix and match public and private assets in line with business needs.
Our team of skilled and certified professionals provides end-to-end managed services covering architecture, migration, management and optimisation of IT landscapes, saving time and cost.
Transcend borders with cloud
Offering a digital transformation launchpad transcending geographical barriers, our hybrid multicloud portfolio is perfect for multinationals as well as in-country organisations with big ambitions. Already, hundreds of customers have adopted a Tata Communications multi-cloud solution. Not just empowering enterprises across all industry sectors, we’re also bringing to life bold plans for digital cities and digital nations.
Unified cloud experience for your business
Solution: IZO™ Private Cloud
The Cloud you can control
Get security, compliance and resilience with IZO™ Private Cloud
Meeting the digital demand
As the demand for digital transformation is being felt across organisations to cope up with the ‘new normal’ way of working, businesses seek to better engage with customers and employees through innovation and disruptive technologies. And hence, cloud eminently serves as the execution venue for emerging technologies offering businesses competitive operations and customer experiences.
To do that, you should have a cloud strategy which can enable a seamless, secure and cost-effective cloud adoption for your business. Through this, you can not only transform your IT estate to a Cloud enabled platform, you also unlock the opportunity to optimise your existing IT platforms, adopt cutting edge technologies for business innovation, creating new business models etc.
On the other hand, most organisations have some bit of managed hosting or dedicated hosting, couple of legacy systems and then some cloud platforms which creates an IT environment that’s almost too complex to manage. At the same time, each of these architectures bring new risks and concerns which require added layers of security solutions to save-guard the IT estate.
If this reflects your own organisation’s situation, you need a responsive infrastructure that can integrate existing systems, offers next gen integrated security which is also capable to reduce the attack surface to a minimum by providing granular access controls to isolated segments and be adaptable to your needs. You also need to achieve this without incurring high IT costs — both from initial capital outlays and ongoing resource requirements, along with managing security and management challenges which often become barriers to effective transformation.
Putting you in control
IZO™ Private Cloud gives you complete visibility and control - all through a single platform
IZO™ Private Cloud is a complete platform for managing IT infrastructure and business-critical workloads, delivered through 17 global cloud nodes including 7 in India. With IZO™ Private Cloud, you can:
- Host applications which are best suited for Private cloud environment because of application specific requirements or security and compliance reasons.
- Perform application modernisation or build new applications using Cloud Containers and Managed Kubernetes services.
- End-to-end support for the application migration, executed though ‘move groups’ based on the interdependencies and application criticality.
- Infrastructure refresh or Data Centre wide migration to leverage the benefits of a Cloud platform in the most cost-effective way.
- Scale on demand or to support footprint expansion in line with Data Sovereignty guidelines.
- Setup highly available Disaster Recovery site with two-way DR and best in class RPO and RTO.
- Leverage and build advanced services like data analytics, host compute sensitive applications like SAP S/4 HANA, Oracle DB etc with pre-defined T-shirt based configurations and much more.
IZO™ Private Cloud - success stories
Solution: Community Cloud
Keep up the pace
Innovate at speed with the dedicated, compliant environments of Community Cloud
Community cloud
For commercial enterprises or public entities operating in highly regulated sectors, our purpose-built community cloud infrastructures have security and assurance at their core. Meaning you’re free to keep pace with innovation - without compromising compliance.
Compliant to range of industry regulations
IZO™ Financial Cloud
Empower next-generation banking services with IZO™ Financial Cloud, a high-performance, secure and compliant cloud foundation that delivers the agility, assurance and resilience to modernise and thrive. Alongside enabling fast deployment of new technologies, IZO™ Financial Cloud ensures business continuity and the smooth transition of legacy workloads, with visibility across your entire estate via integrated and unified controls.
- Assured - Robust, managed cloud infrastructure with maximum uptime assurance and geo-resilient, three-way disaster recovery protocol with near-zero RTO/RPO, for high availability of critical applications and workloads.
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- Agile - Adaptable cloud foundation to enable application modernisation and phased new service launches. Supporting open, cloud-native banking through API-driven innovation.
Government Community Cloud
As a MeitY-empanelled service provider, our dedicated community cloud services meet all the MeitY criteria to provide secure and efficient digital solutions to government departments. Built on IZO™ Private Cloud, with IZO™ Cloud Storage, our Government Community Cloud features on-demand infra services and ubiquitous network access, along with an open cloud architecture for the API economy.
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- Rapid elasticity
- Self-service consumption, on pay-as-you-use basis
- Choice of OS, hypervisor
- Fully managed service, with integrated security and DR
Cutting edge Cloud Storage solutions
Businesses today generate enormous amounts of data which can provide them with in-depth insights and advantage over the competition. However, it is essential for you to store this data in a secure and reliable manner. Tata Communications’ IZO™ Cloud Storage is an integrated and unified cloud storage suite which provides complete control over your data while sufficing the unpredictable storage needs of your growing organization. Our dependable, fully secure IZO™ Cloud Storage makes it easy to store and access unlimited business data, moving large volumes swiftly – with the predictability of pay-as-you-use pricing.
- Scalable stack, dependable archiving - Our unified solution delivers high performance file and block capacity plus long-term archival for object storage.
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- Comprehensive support, maximum availability - A fully managed service from 300+ professionals providing 24/7/365 support to meet enterprise-grade SLAs plus up to 99.99% platform availability.
- Predictable pricing - Pay only for the data you store, with no additional charges for individual data transactions.
Built around you: Cloud storage to match your priorities
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- Archival storage - A high scalable archival storage that helps manage risk equipped with security management features, give your enterprise with an integrated storage to meet all your data with IZO™ Cloud Storage - Archival Storage Solution
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- Enterprise file fabric solution - Collaborate & securely access our corporate data with the EFFS solution
- Data capsule - Effortlessly move your data to cloud. Transfer up to 100tb of data to the cloud in just days with our highly secure Data Capsule device
IZO™ Cloud Storage - success stories
Solution: SAP HANA
Seamless SAP HANA deployment for your business
Get fast, scalable, secure roll-out on any cloud
Setting the stage for modern business intelligence
SAP HANA allows enterprises across industries to process all their transactions, make the data instantly available, and run analytic processing in real-time through a single in-memory system — helping them to improve business performance, expedite service delivery, and operate effciently.
Migration to SAP HANA comes with challenges too: expensive infrastructure requirements, specialist deployment and management skills, ensuring 24*7 availability of hosting infrastructure, and the need for an integrated IT environment i.e. network, security etc.
What’s more, SAP has set a 2025 deadline for all its ERP customers to migrate to SAP HANA. The clock is ticking.
While business of all sizes are embracing SAP HANA, infrastructure requirements for mid-size enterprise varied from large one. To harness process and cost effciencies, and improving time to market — mid-size business prefer easy to deploy standard SAP HANA solutions while large business need custom SAP HANA solution with large vCPU and vRAM configuration.
IZO™ Cloud features optimised for SAP HANA GRID
Tata Communications IZO™ Cloud platform provides scalable, cost effective and high-performance infrastructure for business of all sizes to run SAP HANA at its best. While SAP application can be hosted on IZO™ Private Cloud (IPC), to host the HANA DB there is option to choose from variety of hosting configurations such as flexible and quickly deployable SAP HANA Grid.
- Go-Live instantly - with HANA Grid model, available in range of pre-defined configurations along with Intel latest generation Cascade lake processor, SUSE/RHEL OS, SSD storage, and standard deployment process.
- Choice of hosting model - host SAP application on IPC and SAP DB on — HANA Grid or TDI boxes or HANA appliance as per business needs.
- Quick provisioning - orchestrated through IZO™ Cloud Command for real-time usage metrics and self-service options.
- One-click connectivity - between SAP application and database.
- Disaster recovery (DR) compatible - for HANA Grid - primary Data Centre (DC) and a DR site available between Delhi and Mumbai DC. TDI model can be deployed from global DC locations with DR provision as per business needs.
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- Best practices - for SAP and SAP HANA infrastructure incorporated.
- Flexible licencing - support HANA application on BYOL basis.
- 24*7 IT security - to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities.
Solution: IZO™ Cloud Containers
Revolutionise software delivery and DevOps adoption
Accelerate digital transformation and maintain complete control with an ultra-agile and secure IZO™ Cloud Containers service
Ultra-agile infrastructure perfect for devops and microservices
Next-generation application development and DevOps demand a high performance infrastructure that traditional IT or cloud environments may not offer.
Operating over multiple OS, languages, databases and tools can pose challenges in deploying, configuring, and managing IT complexities - becoming a burden on in-house expertise and systems, as well as on infrastructure and architecture. A new technology simplifies this process. Containers are an ultra-agile emerging infrastructure perfectly suited for quick application development. But in order to fully benefit, businesses need enterprise-level container management controls, compliance, security and support.
Critical questions to ensure enterprise-grade container management
- Does security prevent malware in application code?
- What if your container infrastructure goes down?
- How are container clusters managed and with how many parameters?
- Are audit logs of changes maintained?
- How are enterprise compliance requirements met?
Fast-Track enterprise digital transformation with containers
IZO™ Cloud Containers revolutionises software delivery and improves DevOps adoption. Benefit from three levels of security, as well as end-to-end consultation, implementation and management, for more consistency, productivity and agility.
Solution: Cloud Migration
Migrate faster, simpler and smarter - plan for tomorrow today
Tata Communications’ Cloud Migration services help enterprises in their cloud adoption journey, by enabling them to get the migration strategy and execution exactly right
Key considerations in the cloud migration journey
In recent years, the cloud conversations have changed from “Why Cloud?” to “How Cloud?” and “Which Cloud?” In other words, cloud has become integral to organisations’ IT strategy and is now the new normal for a lot of enterprises. However, making the move is daunting for any organisation. Rather than simply shifting workloads and applications, organisations have to reimagine their IT estate, including their IT operating models, in order to drive innovation, create new opportunities and ensure success.
That’s why the need to understand the full picture is so important before you start to migrate. The strategic levers are key, including business agility, the pace of innovation and your digital infrastructure. You need to look at every single aspect, from the target architecture through to any potential risks, as well as the portability of your applications and what workloads to shift and how. Add to that the need to estimate costs and timelines and draw up a cohesive plan, and the complexities can mount up. In a nutshell, effective migration can unleash the benefits of cloud – and with failsafe planning, you can make the journey simpler to align with your business objectives.
Key challenges in cloud migration
Simplify cloud migration complexities
Tata Communications’ cloud migration framework empowers your enterprise to develop a plan tailored to your organisation. No two cloud journeys are alike, which is why our certified cloud professionals assess your current situation before drawing up a plan, looking at your technology landscape, including:
Once we have all the details, we will develop your tailored migration plan, which will include details of how certain applications will be migrated. We’ll consider aspects like whether they should simply be re-hosted or whether they need to be refactored, repurchased, retired or retained. This depth of analysis will help you in the migration approach and determine the baseline for success. Our cloud migration framework guides your business step by step, enabling you to unlock the full value of cloud today and in the future. With a planned approach to assess, move, operate and innovate on the cloud, your migration will be in safe hands when you choose Tata Communications as your partner.
Solution: Tata Communications Managed Cloud Services for AWS, Azure & GCP
Your one-stop shop for public cloud
Achieve secure, hyper-scalability with Tata Communications Managed Cloud Services for AWS, Azure & GCP
Implementing and managing public cloud infrastructure can be stressful
Today, global enterprise growth and expansion is largely driven by proven technologies such as the cloud. The need for scalability, agility and faster time to market are driving organisations to invest in both private and multiple public cloud platforms to stay ahead in the marketplace.
According to a recent research conducted by 451 Research, 72% of surveyed enterprises using public cloud indicated they are working in a multi cloud environment with more than one public cloud provider. Incorporating Public cloud into your IT strategy is easier said than done. The need of technology factors like application modernisation, re-platforming and others requires extensive knowledge and expertise for a successful public cloud adoption. One migrated, managing multiple cloud platforms can prove to be stressful as it requires extensive knowledge and expertise. The complexities can increase with the lack of proactive measures and end-to-end SLA-based services. Escalating costs and lack of internal expertise for building unified platforms for cloud and non-cloud solutions can also prove to be major roadblocks.
All these factors combined pose daunting challenges for enterprise CIOs looking to build their digital strategy, impacting time to market. However, choosing the right cloud platform for your business is not easy. Moving workloads to external cloud requires deep understanding of the application landscape, behaviour of the target cloud, and how to integrate different environment together.
of the IT leaders expect to partner with cloud service providers and managed hosting providers for their hybrid and multi cloud initiatives.
End to end Managed Cloud Services for AWS, Azure and GCP
Tata Communications Managed Cloud Services for AWS, Azure and GCP is a hybrid-multi cloud solution that offers visibility and control over costs and productivity while improving resource effciency. The holistic, SLA-based service helps redefine your cloud strategy by enabling access to the right expertise, infrastructure, and governance to fuel growth - at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
Tata Communications Managed Cloud Services for AWS, Azure & GCP - success stories
Solution: IZO™ Cloud Command
Optimise spend, eliminate complexity, unify visibility
Take control over your dis-jointed hybrid multi- cloud platforms with IZO™ Cloud Command from Tata Communications
Multiple clouds demand a unified management platform
The pandemic has only accelerated the shift to remote, digital-first workforces. And as enterprises seek effective ways to stay connected and keep collaborating, the hybrid multi-cloud offers a compelling way forward – bringing greater control and scalability to drive innovation and avoid costly vendor lock-in.
But with every additional cloud environment comes greater complexity and vulnerability, with visibility compromised and management jeopardised. It’s not easy to implement a seamless hybrid multi-cloud – enterprises need a way to manage it. That means putting a unified management platform in place that can balance agility, scalability, management and security – offering a single portal with 360-degree visibility.
Choose a cloud management platform to…
Simplify multi-cloud management at every turn with IZO™ Cloud Command
Manage, govern and optimise
IZO™ Cloud Command is a single-pane-of-glassorchestration tool to help you manage every aspect of your private and public cloud environments. Integrating everything into a single dashboard, with a unified view for all the underlying resources, you can embrace seamless visibility, standardisation and automation. And deploy applications across multiple clouds consistently and instantly.
- Cloud operations - Monitor, get alerts, and act, based on a built-in recommendation engine that’s supported by predictive analysis
- Compliance - Drive adherence to corporate guidelines and assign relevant guardrails to reduce risk
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- Consumption - Simplify day-to-day IT resource management tasks, for increased operational efficiencies
Dedicated hosting services
Switch on to 99.9% uptime
From servers, storage and networking fabric to database and middleware management, our fully customisable, end-to-end managed hosting services enable the highest levels of performance and uptime. Co-created and madeto- order infrastructure is backed by industry-leading SLAs, world-class expertise and robust, integrated security to power your hybrid cloud future.
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Managed hosting services
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colocation
Benefit from our smooth and efficient global colocation services to leverage a shared facility to rent IT equipment in a hassle-free manner.
Dedicated Managed Hosting - success stories
Solution: Disaster Recovery
Seamless Disaster Recovery For The Most Complex Infrastructures!
Business continuity assured with our Disaster Recovery services.
Disaster Recovery is no more a choice
A devastating earthquake. A catastrophic cyber attack. Or simply an employee error. When disaster strikes your systems, it’s your ability to recover that counts. Tata Communications’ Disaster Services offer a fast, reliable solution that covers the entire disaster recovery lifecycle. Implemented across the hybrid cloud environment of your choice, from cloud to colocation, it’s as comprehensive as it is reliable.
- Laying the essential groundwork - Our fully-managed service takes complete control over your infrastructure replication, from determining the order your applications are migrated to running regular pre-disaster drills.
- Delivering complete continuity - If disaster does strike, we’ll ensure an immediate and seamless transition to your secondary site. Enterprise-grade SLA’s, with RTO/RPO guarantees, ensure near-zero business disruption and 99.9% uptime of your DR infrastructure.
- Moving your enterprise forward - We keep a constant eye on your recovery site to make sure everything is running as it should. We’ll send you the reports to meet your compliance needs. And when the dust settles, we’ll direct thecomplex transition back to your primary site.
Protect your enterprise with Managed Disaster Recovery
With Tata Communications, you’ll benefit from:
- A fully-managed service delivered by DR experts that monitor your infrastructure 24/7/365, as well as a dedicated SPOC for your DR
- Near-zero business disruption with enterprise-grade SLAs guaranteeing swift recovery and continual uptime.
- Meet your compliance regulations with regular and comprehensive reports from your dedicated DR team
Why choose our disaster recovery solutions?
- Bespoke - your detailed DR strategy is prepared by a team of experts that will cater for your specific business needs
- Proactive - pre-DR drills and tests ensure your IT infrastructure is well protected in case actual disaster strikes
- Flexible - with various deployment options, you can choose your source site, with in-house data centre, colocation, managed hosting and cloud all easily replicated to physical or cloud DR infrastructure
- Fully managed - our team of data centre and cloud experts ensure SLAs are met 24/7/365, with a dedicated DR SPOC always by your side
Our approch to secure Multi-Cloud Management
Delivered through three critical stages, we build best practice into every step of your cloud journey.
- IT infrastructure and security posture assessment, plus design and security consultation - Drawing on best practice,we will assess your existing IT infrastructure and conduct athorough cloud and security gap analysis to devisecomprehensive roadmaps for hybrid multi-cloud and security control deployment.
- Migration and security control deployment and configuration - Alongside managing your workload migration, public cloud deployment and multi-cloud integration, we will design and implement a security solution that covers your entire cloud architecture.
- Monitoring, management and controls - 300+ cloud experts will conduct 24/7/365 proactive monitoring, providing security incident management, system maintenance and business-as-usual support. Our global cyber security response centres (CSRC) cover the full stack of platforms including security analytics, cyber threat intelligence and network attack prediction.
Our Cloud and Security capabilities at a glance
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PB of storage managed -
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Industry certified experts CISSP | CISM | SANS | CISA | CCNA | CCNP | MCSE | SNIA | CEH | PMP | ITIL | AWS/AZURE/GCP Certified
2022: Where should you focus next?
Cloud innovations taking us forward into 2022 and beyond
Cloudification
Succinctly summing-up cloud growth, Gartner predicted worldwide public cloud revenues would grow by 23 percent in 2021 to a total of $332.2 billion. A major contributor to that was organisations adopting home working heavily reliant on web-based cloud services. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been the most successful by far. It’s forecast to reach $122.6 billion by the end of this year. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) are both big players, and we’re now seeing new entries like Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). In percentage terms, DaaS will see the highest growth at 67.7 percent
followed by IaaS at 38.5 percent. Cloud management and security services is showing nearly 30 percent growth from 2020 to 2022. When it comes to Security-as-a-Service, the Gartner forecast highlights the shift toward cloud solutions to run mission-critical security and sensitive IT workloads. Surveys by several researchers point to a common thread: firms are increasingly opting for multi-cloud environments that take advantage of public and private cloud models together with on-prem.
Expected cloud growth factors include:
- 81 percent of organisations have adopted a multi-cloud strategy, while 84 percent describe existing IT as some form of that arrangement.
- Manufacturing ($19.7 billion), professional services ($18.1 billion), and banking ($16.7 billion) are the leading industry verticals in terms of public cloud spending.
Cloud innovations taking us forward into 2022 and beyond
Virtualisation
Virtualisation can dramatically improve IT efficiency. Improved scalability and high availability help businesses do more with less. Spiceworks research in 2020 showed server virtualisation is used by 92 percent of businesses, which will grow to 97 percent by the end of 2022. Speaking with our customers, they look to us for deeper knowledge of virtualisation and how apps and networks interoperate in their projects. Which is why we continually invest in our people. Just as well, because in the next two years many companies will adopt or investigate cloud-based virtualisation. For example, with usage of cloud-based virtual desktops expected to grow rapidly and nearly half of businesses planning or considering moving VMs to the cloud, many will seek migration guidance. Organisations weighing the pros and cons will seek advice or reach out to trusted advisors like Tata Communications.
Containerisation
Containerisation has become a major trend as an alternative to virtualisation says an IBM Cloud Education piece. It allows developers to create and deploy applications faster and more securely by bundling the app code with config files, libraries, and dependencies required for it to run. This single software package stands alone and is portable – able to run across any platform or cloud, completely free of issues. The technology is quickly maturing, resulting in measurable benefits for developers and operations teams as well as overall software infrastructure. Global container revenue will grow from $465.8 million in 2020 to reach $944 million in 2024, according to a new Gartner forecast. Containers have become popular because they provide powerful tools for addressing critical concerns including faster delivery, portability, modernisation, and lifecycle management. Gartner predicts by 2022 more
Cloud innovations taking us forward into 2022 and beyond
Cyber Securitisation
A McKinsey article from November 2021 said, “In many organisations, security and compliance functions are seen as time-consuming processes that slow down initiatives.” Indeed, while almost 90 percent of tech leaders believe they’ve effectively improved cyber defences, only two-thirds of the rest of the C-suite agree. The solution lies in moving security from something done only by a dedicated team, to something for which everyone is responsible. And upgrading security operations to improve prevention and resilience. A Red Hat blog explains how security and compliance can help create a more secure hybrid cloud. It says, “In mixed cloud environments where workloads are deployed in physical hosts, virtual machines, and containers across on-prem and cloud environments, security becomes more and more complex.” Across such hybrid environments automation can, for example,
reduce human error and improve auditing speed and consistency. The physical situation also needs to be factored in. The obvious example is home and hybrid working. Cyber criminals launched a 630 percent increase in cloud-based attacks between January and April 2020. The risks are chiefly from remote workers logging on from a mixed bag of personal and company devices. An HP paper reported 76 percent of IT teams said security had taken a back seat during the pandemic and 91 percent felt
Cloud innovations taking us forward into 2022 and beyond
Everything as a Service (XaaS)
Dramatically reshaping the enterprise IT landscape, organisations are turning to XaaS in droves to gain greater flexibility over what they consume and pay for and, ultimately, boost business agility and workforce efficiency, says a Deloitte article. Several major technology providers expect XaaS to fuel their future growth and plan to shift portfolios to service-based IT over the next few years. Many view XaaS as an innovation catalyst: with eight in 10 reinventing business processes, developing new products, inventing new business models, and changing how they sell to customers. Some 60 percent feel they’re gaining competitive edge through XaaS adoption. This constant evolution needs to not only align with future needs but also dovetail seamlessly with existing solutions. So-called frontrunners avoid mistakes by using rapid experimentation to rapidly try out new solutions and evaluate outcomes. Successful
XaaS vendors exhibit similar characteristics. They guarantee reliability and performance, offer integrations with other XaaS solutions, help their customers optimise utilisation, and provide strong security safeguards.
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Getting hybrid multi-cloud working for you
In the spirit of true partnership, cloud specialists from Tata Communications will act as a seamless extension of your internal IT team, boosting its resources and expertise. In sharing best practice, they’ll leverage knowledge gained in innumerable digital transformation initiatives right around the world. That means you can take your own digital transformation projects forward faster, at scale and with better outcomes; enjoying the certainty that comes with our comprehensive hybrid multi-cloud portfolio. Finally, our support services are designed to de-risk all stages of the cloud journey. Running from design and deployment to platform optimisation and proactive monitoring they ensure confidence and peace of mind.
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