Top 3 reasons your business should include the cloud

First: Using the cloud for more than a data center or infrastructure

“In the past it was possible to be server-less by using PaaS, which would hide the infrastructure from you, or using SaaS that hides even more from you. Nowadays with Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) and the new Events-as-a-Service (EaaS), such as AWS Lambda, there are even fewer reasons to deploy servers. And without servers there is no provisioning, patching, or maintenance. Plus, there are fewer virtual networks, less focus on storage attachments, and backups are now someone else’s problem,” said Sarah Lahav, CEO, SysAid.

Second: Using open source software to attract talent

“Blockbuster-killing Netflix is a famous example of making a bold decision to go all-in on Open Source and to pursue a “grow your own” talent and systems strategy,” said Lahav. “We are now seeing other organizations, such as one of the UK’s oldest betting companies William Hill, follow suit. Their CIO, Finbarr Joy, is using the same approach of “OSS to attract and weaponize talent” to beat the competition. Game on.”

Third: Get your execs on-board with Cloud options

“Enormous, traditional companies such as Royal Philips have made a bold decision to move to what they called a “consumption model.” Alan Nance, VP Technology, explained in 2014 how he led the company, including the board, on a strategy to tell all of their suppliers that the era of enterprise agreements with up-front capital payments, multi-year commitments, and other lock-in strategies, were gone. Instead, all suppliers must provide pay-as-you-go terms. All suppliers did agree to this, except for SAP, who lost their client relationship and was replaced with Atos who would offer those terms for SAP services,” said Lahav. “So chief operating officers around the world are now questioning IT capital expenditure requests, with their fellow executives on the golf course telling them that “friends don’t let friends build data centers anymore”.”