IDC Finland Infrastructure Future of Infrastructure: The digital future is built on Cloud

Knowing the right time to move to the cloud can be a challenge, but do we sometimes stop to consider whether we have backed the wrong cloud for the right reasons, or perhaps we have the right cloud for the wrong reasons?

Understanding your business strategy and future growth path is just as important as knowing whether the systems you identified for cloud migration are the right ones and are ready for the cloud.

In this session, Scott Cairns walks through a hypothetical analysis of a cloud investment by a fictional organization, looking at the good and the problematic decisions made. He will explore the questions we should all consider when designing a cloud-centric strategy and share learnings to help you develop a successful plan that is aligned with your overall business objectives, cost effective and future proven. 

In this presentation, Ari Saareks, will deep-dive into the following topics:

• Multicloud means application modernization ->  datacenter infrastructure must follow this model including technology, financial models and data management
• End user experience must be similar in all clouds (including own DC) -> this requires new approaches for DC and edge locations 
• Security and continuity framework must cover everything same way

Traditional companies stick to what they know especially when it comes to IT infrastructure. Cloud offers hundreds of services that don’t resonate well with our business like it might with a software company. (Infrastructure as Code, Functions, Kubernetes etc).

How do we transform that to a language that they understand?

With high geo-political uncertainty and macro-economic headwinds in the world, businesses are looking for ways to manage costs and have the flexibility to quickly meet changes in demand, as well as doing this more sustainably. This fireside chat is about how companies can respond to these increased challenges by looking at how they operate their IT infrastructure and the opportunities that combining physical and virtual infrastructure offers.   

1.  How are the challenges affecting customers’ plans for their digital transformation?
2.  How should organizations think about their digital infrastructure?   
3.  Sustainability is top of mind of every company - what is Equinix doing to help its customers to meet their sustainability goals? 

There are many challenges and implications in enterprise public cloud management. The approach that worked for decades regarding on-premises datacenters and IT does not scale when it comes to public cloud operations. The increased technology complexity combined with a faster pace world that is accelerating it’s digital transformation needs cloud operations to be revised.

In this task, we are going to explore how cloud management evolved in an enterprise setting. I will share some real-world experiences, war stories and best practices for scaling cloud management and operations in a multi cloud enterprise environment.