Cloud enabling remaking of IT Software and Infrastructure industry

We are at an inflection point in technology adoption and maturity curve. Pace of growth and change in technology landscape is making it extremely difficult for any organization to stay ahead in the adoption curve. Some of the technologies like Data Analytics, IoT sensors, AR/VR, Robotics, AI, Image processing, Machine Learning and Natural Language processing fueled by easy to adapt modules / API-based micro services offered by Cloud providers is enabling every industry, vertical or function in an organization to embrace this change in a truly integrated Digital world offering customers new and innovative ways to interact with the consumer of their services or products.

Cloud and its related technologies stack across infrastructure, platform and software service offerings is making an organization re-think across the complete stack including

· Re-design Infrastructure: Overall infrastructure strategy re-design to enable organizations to adopt varied forms of compute including elastic cloud, containers, server less models, tapping into auto scalable global availability zones and regions offering one-click model to tap new geographies, and consuming native services offered for faster time-to-market.

· Re-engineering Processes: Traditional ITIL and Enterprise-wide process workflows needs re-engineering and update to support continuously changing devops (CI/CD) environment, supported by "Always ON" service delivery engine.

· Re-thing Software creation models and patterns used: rethink the way custom software’s are written, tested and deployed on a centralized platform offering underlying infra independence and automated deployment workflows etc.; or even reducing risks of deploying packaged apps with SaaS consumption models

·  Re-fresh People strategy - skilled resource pool needs a refresh to stay competitive and meet next-generation needs for SDETS Full stack developer, converged engineers, DevOps engineers, CSREs, Automation engineers , Cloud professionals and AI-skilled resources.

In this new world of subscription economy, embracing cloud and centralized platform approach for both custom and packaged software is the first step to enabling this change and creating an innovation mindset where business teams are supported by hybrid cloud services platform to bring concepts to life faster, enable integrated workflows and prepare organizations to both consume and offer pay-as-you-go subscription services.