TechTrade Asia: Cognizant’s Vice President and Global Head of Markets, Infrastructure Services, Says Cloud Adoption has Gained Wider Enterprise Acceptance Across Complex and Hybrid Models

“Cloud has been helping IT departments become more strategic in 2015, so they spend less time on day-to-day issues,” says Venugopal Lambu. “Cloud adoption has gained wider enterprise acceptance across complex and hybrid models (public, private cloud). It is becoming the board agenda and hence when choosing to move to cloud, CIOs/Heads of IT are involved, also in some cases CFOs, CMOs, Heads of Security and business heads are getting involved.”

He adds, “Business heads are looking for superior time-to-market, agility, and response to industry events and seasonality of demand bursts on the cloud, along with the ability to address compliance and regulatory requirements...This is further strengthening IT’s position as a ‘business enabler’ than just a ‘business supporter’.”

Lambu notes: “As companies gain more traction on their digital business agenda, a significant portion of their compute and storage will be on cloud and they will leverage hyperscale data centers optimized for big data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile. Enterprises will move their needle towards software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based cloud applications for faster provisioning to businesses...next generation service management will become critical for this new ecosystem.”

Click here to read more.