{"id":9769,"date":"2021-05-26T11:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acora2021arch.wpengine.com\/?p=9769"},"modified":"2024-05-24T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:52:29","slug":"cloud-utopia-real-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acora.s.nomatter.dev\/nl\/news\/archive\/cloud-utopia-real-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Utopia: Real Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong><span class=\"category\">Part<\/span> 1<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Picture a world in which you have no servers or other permanent IT infrastructure on your business premises. A purely subscription-based world, where all you need to think about are your data and processes. Upgrades, availability and scalability are all someone else\u2019s problem \u2013 and on their budget, too. And your people can work anywhere; all they need is an internet connection. Software or security upgrade or other new resources? No problem: they open their device, regardless of where they are and it\u2019s there. The whole package is secured, governed and delivered for you from the cloud \u2013 and it\u2019s all ready for innovation, so you\u2019ve always got access to the latest-and-greatest of everything. Effectively, your premises become a kind of exclusive internet caf\u00e9, open only to your teams, who bring their own devices and use it when they need to.<\/p>\n<p>This simple, streamlined, highly flexible scenario is often referred to as the Cloud Utopia. As we know, \u2018Utopia\u2019 usually means an imagined, ideal world where everything\u2019s perfect and, by implication, one we\u2019re never likely to see. But as an architect, what I find so exciting about the Cloud Utopia is that it\u2019s actually entirely realistic and achievable.<\/p>\n<p>Common sense suggests getting there should be easier for so-called \u2018cloud-born\u2019 organisations; the ones who\u2019ve always and only ever used cloud-based solutions, unburdened by legacy systems. That\u2019s true up to a point, but the barriers are usually cognitive and personal, rather than technical. So many companies tell us they want to be cloud-based, then proceed to list all the specific reasons they can\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<p>The point about Cloud Utopia is that it\u2019s a journey. It might take six months or five years: what\u2019s important is that you\u2019re clear about where you\u2019re going. In other words: what does Cloud Utopia look like to you?<br \/>Once we understand this, we can apply our <span style=\"color: #ed1c24;\"><a style=\"color: #ed1c24;\" href=\"\/about-us\/acoras-philosophy\/\">Acora Trusted Digital Framework<\/a><\/span> to help you develop a roadmap, in line with your overall IT and cloud strategy. This will depend on a range of factors. For example:\u00a0Are you in a regulated, high-compliance industry that requires specific applications? <span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">How long has your current IT platform been in place? A<\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">re you cloud-born or dealing with legacy systems? <\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">What kind of journey have you been on as a business, in terms of acquisitions, investment in IT and so on?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Crucially, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: inherit;\">how<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> much experience does your IT team have, at all levels? Your answers will, of course, determine your exact destination. But as an architect, my vision is that you arrive at a point where you\u2019re simply no longer worried about your &#8216;plumbing&#8217;. Instead, your business\u2019s IT is delivered entirely through Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service solutions, to meet the needs of the data age as it is now, not as it once was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The precise journey you take will also be unique, but working across verticals from manufacturing to finance, legal to not-for-profit means we have a huge range of experience and insight to guide us. Broadly speaking there are six areas we\u2019ll need to consider:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1.\u00a0 Identity<br \/>2.\u00a0 Device Management<br \/>3.\u00a0 Communications<br \/>4.\u00a0 Security<br \/>5.\u00a0 Applications<br \/>6.\u00a0 Data<\/p>\n<p>Under our <span style=\"color: #ed1c24;\"><a style=\"color: #ed1c24;\" href=\"\/our-approach\/\">Acora Trusted Digital Framework<\/a>,<\/span> we\u2019ll ensure your solution is secure by design, fully cost-optimised and, perhaps most importantly, <strong>ready for innovation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That last point really matters because achieving Cloud Utopia is absolutely contingent upon your ability to adopt new technologies as they emerge. Cloud Utopia isn\u2019t a fixed point, but a dynamic state. With evergreen products like Windows 10, big system-wide changes every few years have been replaced by constant updates to both the OS and surrounding products, and we\u2019re all expected to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to recognise that there\u2019s a mutual dependency at play here. As a business, you can\u2019t realise your Cloud Utopia ambitions if you\u2019re not ready for innovation. But equally, you can\u2019t properly judge which innovations to adopt if you don\u2019t have a clear idea of where you\u2019re trying to get to.<\/p>\n<p>Going full cloud-based is a significant move, but it\u2019s one we\u2019ve helped many clients to make. It\u2019s also a journey we\u2019re on ourselves at Acora, so we can draw on our own first-hand, real-world experience of making this change.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk more about Cloud Utopia in Part 2. In the meantime, if you have specific questions or would just like to find out more, please <span style=\"color: #ed1c24;\"><a style=\"color: #ed1c24;\" href=\"\/contact-us\/\"><u>contact us<\/u><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 Picture a world in which you have no servers or other permanent IT infrastructure on your business premises. A purely subscription-based world, where all you need to think about are your data and processes. 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