IDC Sweden 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. 

Dell Technologies would like to inspire on the most forward-looking cloud strategies in the industry. There is a common understanding that cloud technologies in 2022 are becoming mature. First complication comes when clouds become connected, next complication is multicloud.

People, process, and technology are still the foundation of a multicloud approach, but multicloud amplifies the disciplines needed to operate the control planes. Businesses are typically trying to differentiate on digital transformations initiatives and hybrid is where value can be generated – but it is not easy with a traditional approach and hybrid is key component in a multicloud world.

We don’t see the cloud as a destination – it’s an enabler to maximize operational efficiency. No matter where your data resides, it’s all about the required know-how to optimize the use of your applications and data. It’s a cloud journey rather than a destination. It means choosing the right mixture of public cloud and private cloud that best serves your organization's IT needs. 

People, cost, security, compliance, sustainability and energy consumption are top of the agenda for today’s IT leaders. As the digital transformation train continues at a furious pace, a fully integrated hybrid cloud operating model plays a vital role in helping you deliver upon your business requirements. 

Interested in understanding how this all come together, so that you can make the right decision for your organization and save on investments, number of FTE, electricity consumption whilst being faster to deploy services to fuel your competitive advantage? Then listen to Mats Ericson, regional leader at Nutanix during this IDC event in Sweden

Join us to discover how we use our strategic industry-focused cloud offering, CloudSMART for AWS, to enable businesses to pivot from their current cloud state to the modern cloud, making digital enterprises future-ready.

Also, get a deeper insight into how HCLTech is uniquely positioned to drive diverse customers’ cloud journeys through its unique Enterprise Transformation framework. We ensure rapid cloud deliveries through a uniquely built Cloud Factory model.

Security hygiene is still needed even in the modern cloud era. During his presentation, Richard will talk about the trends Lacework Labs Research sees in the wild. For example how adversaries still use simple techniques to do reconnaissance in cloud environments.

The presentation will also address what companies are experiencing and problems they are facing when intelligently operating in complex multi cloud environments. From a security point of view, learnings and best practices will be shared throughout the presentation.

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? 

With digitalisation and cloud technologies breaking up barriers in the dairy industry, suppliers now have the capability and technology to extend their data reach. The access to data enables new forms of collaboration and partnerships. DeLaval is well-positioned in the value chain to take the lead in the digital transformation journey, as they have access to the core operational data at the dairy farm itself.

Yvo will start his presentation with a short introduction about the domain of dairy farming. He will share the challenges dairy farmers face, and will talk about a shift in the industry they are seeing where new stakeholders are entering the dairy value chain. 

What does this mean for a manufacturer such as DeLaval? DeLaval is a 140 year old company and a market leader in our industry. This has tremendous benefits but also comes with challenges. They need to keep their experts and specialists closely involved in their development, all the while adopting agile software development so they can bring digital services to market quickly.  

It will be a technical presentation with a focus on architecture. DeLaval has a hybrid edge-to-cloud architecture, and Yvo will explain what that means.

Join sustainability leader from Hitachi Vantara to share their unique approaches to decarbonizing technology and how to find answers to the environmental crisis. Discover how they see the life-cycle perspective and what steps they have taken to empower their customers, partners, and key stakeholders to make conscious decisions around the environmental impact of their technology. A data center case study being reviewed shows that it is good for your sustainability goals and IT budget savings. Attendees will leave with tangible takeaways on how they can reach their own sustainability goals.

In this presentation, Linda Swärd from HPE will deep-dive into the following topics:

• How the roadmap is changing from traditional IT to Xaas and how HPE has transformed to meet the new demands
• How Cloud first strategies are being replaced by Data first strategies and what drives this transformation
• How HPE:s Hybrid Cloud platform helps customers overcome important barriers when it comes digital transformation (For example IT-competence, Integration, security, cost)

It’s easy to stare at the new shiny toys when thinking about cloud. But how do you ensure that your entire company reaps the benefits? How do you identify your main drivers, and which ones should you disregard?

I’ll give away my key takeaways identified over the years on the importance of having a strategy and how to ensure it to be executed successfully.

2022 has been the year where companies leave behind the era of IT-led adoption to move into business experimentation and large scale transformation initiatives. Join this session as we look at the different trends impacting the cloud-native enterprise and explore how to embrace new ways of working in the Cloud.

Increasing complexity and ever-fluctuating demands have made it all but impossible to assure that applications consistently perform as required. To avoid the risk of outages, individuals and teams increasingly over-allocate resources. This is a hugely wasteful practice, not only economically but also detrimental to the environment. 

In this session you will hear real life examples of how automation balances resource needs and availability. You will find out how to reduce cloud waste and costs, and increase team-productivity, while assuring that applications run on auto-pilot.