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Cloud migration is about moving your data, applications, and even infrastructure from your on-premises computers or infrastructure to a virtual pool of on-demand, shared resources that offer compute, storage, and network services at scale. What's more, with the presence of multiple public cloud providers and the addition of private cloud to the mix, Cloud Migration today takes the shape of any combination of movement of data assets, even Cloud-to-Cloud.

Market research firm Gartner has forecast the trend where organizations are increasingly using cloud solutions for supporting their core financial applications and transactional systems of record. By 2022, around 46 percent of enterprises are likely to sustain over half their transactional systems using the cloud.

So, why should your organization consider moving to the cloud? Well, I could offer seven reasons:

1. Reduced costs

Establishing and running a data center is expensive. You'll have to spend a great deal for its upkeep which inturn will end-up on hight fixed cost [just starting with Manpower]. When you shift to cloud computing, you will only pay for the services procured. Let me help with an example. Imagine your DeepLearning team using multitudes of GPU based computers for training their AI models. It's very traditional to buy all that 'horsepower' when you have the flexibility of just switching-on the high GPU machines just for training your workloads while doing all of the regress of testing on laptops or CPUs. This is just one of the ways of thinking around the Capex-to-Opex model of thinking rationalization of costs around business functions.

The benefit of this model is that you could perfectly tune to exactly what you need. Providers charge cloud computing services based on the features, storage, number of users, time, and memory space among other factors. Hence, you can choose a package that suits your budget and save costs.

2. Flexibility

One of the major benefits of cloud computing is mobility. The service gives you and your employees the flexibility to work from any location. Employees can complete their tasks at home or from the field.

What seems so valid in these COVID-19 lockdown scenarios is that you can reduce the number of workstations in your office and allow some employees to work from home to save costs further. Cloud computing enables you to monitor the operations in your business effectively. You just need a fast internet connection to get real-time updates of all operations.

3. Scalability

The traditional way of planning for unexpected growth is to purchase and keep additional servers, storage, and licenses. It may take months and years before you actually use the 100th percentile of the procured resources. Scaling cloud computing services is easy. You can get additional storage space or features whenever you need them. Your provider will simply upgrade your package within minutes as long as you meet the additional cost. The same is with computing. For the first time, you could now separate the compute with the storage requirement and hire the very resources at any quantity without the restriction of a hardware bundle.

4. No need for a backup plan

Traditional computing system requires back up plans, especially for data storage. A disaster can lead to permanent data loss if no backup storage is in place if the physical hardware gets damaged. Businesses do not require any such means when storing data on a cloud. The data will always be available as per the contingency planning, as long as users have an internet connection. Some businesses use cloud computing services as backup and a plan for disaster recovery. Rather, the cloud facilitates tired storage more robustly with the application of governance and disaster recovery at cross-geo locations offering more resilience to failures.

5. Data security

Sometimes storing data on the cloud is safer than storing it on physical servers and data centers. A breach of security at your premises can lead to compromised data security if laptops or computers are stolen. If you have data on the cloud, you can delete any confidential information remotely or move it to a different account. Breaching the security measures on clouding platforms is difficult. Hence, you are assured of data security. The implementation of governance and security posturing is elevated quite a new notches over the cloud implementations. The ability to manage multiple clouds and physical IT resources in single pane of glass with cloud monitoring tools further elevates the proposition for the cloud.

6. A wide range of options

We are offered the dexterity to choose from many groups of cloud computing services, that is, IaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Each of these groups has many sub-categories that vary across providers. For instance, if you are looking for software, you will have hundreds of options from different providers. You can choose the service providers with the best features and rates for the service that your business needs. These options offer varied ways to plan not just operational fitment but also financial rationalization to the costing of IT assets.

7. Improved collaboration

Business outcomes are greatly enhanced with the facilitation and sharing of common resources. Cloud computing is among the most effective ways of improving team performance.

Staff members can easily share data and collaborate to complete projects even from different locations. DevOps over the cloud is seamlessly getting to be the de facto approach to building software over cloud. Field workers can easily share real-time data and updates with those in the office. In addition, cloud computing eliminates redundant or repetitive tasks such as data re-entry. The general availability of edge-computing devices makes data collection seamless even for remotely deployed hardware. Imagine these getting automatically ingests, aggregated, piped-thru-algorithms and analytics being served over visual dashboards, Yes! All of these are almost what I regularly discuss with my clients.

Though the benefits can be generalized. But each organization’s cloud adoption journey is unique. Your particular circumstances, priorities and obligations will shape the path you take and determine how best to plan and adopt new technologies and environments over cloud. Hence, the need for a reliable partner to help through the journey.

The cloud capabilities and strategies of Pactera EDGE are designed to unlock new levels of cloud capabilities to expedite the digitalization of companies. Pact.Cloud’s integrated approach to hybrid cloud solutions can create tremendous opportunities for organizations to grow in terms of revenue and to procure a significant place in the technology ecosystem. Pactera EDGE’s cloud computing expertise can help the organizations reap maximum benefits with their game-changing cloud services and solutions. 

Let me introduce you to PacteraEdge's main capability sets:

1. Migration & Multicloud

Our design-centric and adaptable approach in Migration Services and unique methodology facilitates the enterprises to engage with their customers. It helps accelerate an organizations’ cloud journey and assist them to integrate it with multi-location units, explore products/service innovation, and boost system agility with a cloud- based IT ecosystem.

We help organizations migrate to the cloud to optimize their cloud infrastructure, streamline their processes, maximize their efficiencies, and get them ready for new design paradigms.

2. Cloud Managed Services

Pact.Cloud takes a comprehensive approach in offering managed services that help businesses to achieve better compliance, optimum performance of applications, increased efficiency, thereby enabling them to deliver quality services. Manage your complex multicloud environment with our custom-

Cloud managed services benefits include:

• ? Simpler interfaces for usage analytics
• ? Powerful alerting engine
• ? Minimize cloud project risks for development & deployment
• ? Integrated security with AI-enabled MDR
• ? Strong governance of resources and rules with '4C' structure

3. Cloud As An Innovation Platform

• With the cloud-based services becoming the most desired platform for developing and using AI-native applications, it promotes promising ideas into real products or services using a proven innovation management methodology. This approach enables transparency of cost and utilization, accelerates execution, and lowers the risk of innovation projects over the cloud platform.
• Pact.Cloud team helps clients with infrastructure development and provides consulting and optimization techniques to leverage the cloud as the frontier for their innovation workloads. Our cloud platform can help move most of their cutting-edge development work in ML/AI/DL to the cloud directly.

4. Solutions Over Cloud

Pact.Cloud platform offers prefabricated solutions that can be used for rapid prototyping and for plugging the customer opportunity/problem in a very short time (usually less than a month). It offers the advantage to analyze the benefits in a short time enabling faster decision making over its longer implementation.

Some of the pre-fabricated solution components include:

• ? Smart-Retail analytics solution
• ? Smart-Logistics solution
• ? Social-Commerce enablement
• ? Industry 4.0 Edge-Computing solutions

PacteraEDGE have the right mix of Digital Capabilities and Traditional IT Services to help Industry pioneers and Digital natives to achieve the technology equilibrium as its unique value proposition is to take their EDGE Solutions across the globe. With the new technologies creating newer business opportunities, PacteraEDGE is focused on molding these opportunities for their clients and enabling modern enterprises to achieve new levels of performance by adding digital capabilities that drive relevance, revenue, and growth. 

PacteraEDGE is committed to building capabilities that align with industry standards. Besides the Cloud Capabilities, PacteraEDGE's Solution Engineering team has focused on enterprise Cognitive Services, Data Management offerings and Robotic process automation.

The Solution-Engineering team at PacteraEDGE would be happy to speak to over your Cloud requirements. You could initiate your discussion my writing to us at: [email protected]