Author: Lori MacVittie
The destination of digital transformation has always been a ‘digital as default’ operating model. I can’t remember the last time someone left a phone book on my front porch or handed me a DVD of a new movie to watch. When I want to play a new game, I use the store on my console. I certainly don’t get up and drive to a physical game store and browse cartridges anymore. And updates? They’re automatically delivered. Seriously, even my favourite tabletop RPGs are digital today. I don’t have to drag thirteen books and several pounds of dice to someone’s house to play.…
The first wave of cloud saw organizations sprint to the cloud, lured by promises of cost savings and business agility. This was followed by the emergence of the multi-cloud and the subsequent significant repatriation of workloads to on-premises, driven by concerns over cost and security. What appears to be happening now is an abrupt shift to the beginning of the fourth wave of cloud adoption. Digital transformation and cloud have been inextricably linked for years. Themes of speed and scale have driven cloud as the best answer to improving an organization’s digital presence. Ignoring SaaS, which is more about offloading…