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Digitization - How Does The Cloud Enable Agile Digital Transformations?

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Digital Transformation
A successful digital transformation implementation should result in the organization having a clear vision and purpose - one that serves their customers, partners, and employees. Digital transformation is different to Digitization or digitalization. They all leverage on people and technology but are independent concept.

In lay term, Digital transformation means using technology to optimize the ways of doing business to drive growth in new and existing markets, of course this could mean something different for other organization, but the core factor to consider in digital transformation are:

Re-invention, Re-alignment, Renewal of business models/ operation through leveraging technology (tools, application, methodology or concept), people skills and competencies to drive better business result and performance that will benefit the organization, the customer and the market.

Digitization, basically, is the process of conversion of information embedded in physical documents, from analog to digital. It ensures such information can have wider reach, readily accessible, compatibility and easily shared.

Digitalization is the process of using digitized information to work more simply, efficiently, and stay agile.

Cloud Computing is an internet-based computing where central remote servers maintain all the data and applications. It allows Consumers to rent physical infrastructure from a third party provider (cloud service provider, like AWS). As a result, with internet access Consumers and Businesses use Applications and Infrastructure and access their personal files from any computer. It provides a number of IT services like networking, software, server among the others.

You have to pay only for your usage instead of paying upfront ( pay-per –use basis). Your all data is stored in your servers and all the servers are located at the place called Data Center which can be owned and maintained by a third party or you.

Why Cloud ?

Most organizations want to survive, they want to stay at the edge of competition and as a result embrace digital transformation through digitalization and technology.

The pursuit for survival by organizations and the desire to have a blueprint for innovation and growth in the future paves the way for cloud adoption by businesses. Aside this, Agility, and cost effectiveness comes at the top.

Other ways that cloud enable digital transformation are highlighted below:
  1. Save Cost: It enables organisations to scale infrastructure as needed to support changing business priorities, while lowering the risks of wasted IT resources, which have previously hampered investments in new digital services. We help you identify, eliminate, and avoid unneeded costs and underutilized resources such as Low Utilization Amazon EC2 Instances,Idle Load Balancers, Underutilized EBS Volumes, RDS idle DB Instances—save 15-40% or more.
  2. Security: Cloud offers better protection from data breaches and system shutdowns. It has advanced features dedicated for security purpose ensuring that data are secured. We help our clients get security risks assessment and non-compliance, to avoid breaches and achieve compliance with industry standards. Scans to identify accessible resources, ports, and protocols to reduce your attack surface area.
  3. Collaboration: Cloud provides amazing tools and applications for collaborative practices and to keep business processes, operations and management activities efficient. It allows for quick deployment of effective solutions to solving business problems and sharing of ideas and solution across multiple departments and organization. It offers a way to store, process, and share information with anyone around the world.
  4. Reliability: CloudPlexo monitoring and alerts can mitigate infrastructure or service disruptions.Monitoring the encryption of data at rest, Amazon RDS Backups, Amazon RDS Multi-AZ,Amazon S3 Bucket Logging, EBS volumes snapshots and more.
  5. Performance Efficiency: Monitor your service limits and how close you are to them to efficiently manage your AWS Workloads enables you to request limit increases before the limit is reached. Monitoring and alerts for resource limits reached across multiple AWS products.
  6. Big Data Analytics: The cloud provides with immunity to store and analyze data of any size on the World Wide Web. It empowers service providers to often utilize a “software as a service” model to allow customers to easily access and process data on the cloud.
  7. Accessibility to cloud services: Cloud helps to accelerate Big Data and business intelligence computing operations by enabling software modernization through micro services. It ensures streamlining and simplifying business applications, fastening time to market, and meeting customer demands effectively.
  8. Operational Excellence: With our help, you can gain insights into your cloud operations, and continuously improve processes and procedures to deliver business value to your customers
Case Study :

Geria is a company based in the United Kingdom. They connect talented software engineers, developers, designers, and project managers from Africa to UK technology companies. They had a really huge problem; their team at Geria was unable to manage the process of their cloud environment and infrastructure in order to discover areas cloud optimization can be applied to reduce spend. This set them on a search for a high-level management tool to help manage their cloud environment. Thankfully, they found CloudPlexo. We provided them CMP, and through continuous monitoring, total visibility of operations spending, identifying underutilized and idle resources. As a result Geria was able to make significant cost savings of up to 28% in record time.

Conclusion

The major challenge often encountered in the journey toward cloud adoption for Digital transformation, is that to most decision makers, cloud represents a new way of working and mindset, which some are not ready to navigate because of fear and uncertainty. To help overcome this fear is why this blog post was created among others.
And in partnership with AWS, we are positioned at CloudPlexo to provide developers and management with insight needed to run a secured, efficient, lean, cost-optimized and reliable cloud environment, enabling your cloud transformation goals It is to serve as a blueprint to understanding the role of cloud in fostering your business transformation.
We provide services that helps modernize your applications in the cloud and fulfill the need to continuously monitor your workloads against best practices and control cost. Wendu enables you to monitor and operate a well-architected infrastructure that is secure, efficient, reliable, operationally excellent, and cost-optimized with full visibility and control over your cloud spend and operations in multiple cloud environments on one platform.

What You will be able to do?


To learn more about how to begin your journey towards Cloud Adoption, contact CloudPlexo at support@cloudplexo.com.