Cloud computing, as a concept, dates back to resource sharing of mainframes, however the current landscape bears little resemblance to its ancestor. The current trends in cloud computing involve supporting Infrastructure as Code, micro service architectures, and functions as a service.

Another trend is to provide reliable and cheap storage and archiving solutions to attract data and then creating increasingly integrated and unique services so customers can gain previously unknown insights. As the Cloud service providers use their own massive infrastructures, they provide a democratic way for their customers to explore and exploit the eight emerging technology mega-trends that are shaping the world today (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Drones, Internet of Things, robots, virtual reality, and 3D printing).

 

“The customer is the winner”

With a few large public cloud providers competing among themselves to lower prices as well as who can release the most features and new services the customer is the winner. Case studies abound about how different organisations are able to save money, more rapidly innovate, and easily meet unexpected user demands, often with minimal operations overhead and consolidating IT organisations. With so much to gain, why is the adoption in certain sectors so slow? Consideration for adoption includes deciding on the right application, for the right environment, using the right technologies with the correct mix of open and proprietary solutions. In addition to selecting the correct cloud platform, the organisation’s cloud strategy drives its prioritisation of workloads, technologies, and migration paths.

 

As part of IT Days 2016, Thomas Wittische and Todd Hildebrant, senior managers at PwC Luxembourg, will lead a workshop that seeks to understand the barriers for cloud adoption as well as possible changes that would make wide-spread usage easier.

They will focus the discussion on unique needs of the different Luxembourgish institutions (Finance, Local Government, European Union, Private sector) in order to discuss ways forward.

 

Additionally, they will discuss the benefits and challenges for public cloud usage by highlighting the voices of different stakeholders – Security, Operations, Line of Business owners and the broad public.

 

Article by PwC Luxembourg