If a business wants to be one step ahead of the competition, it needs to have a flexible IT and a clear IT strategy. All this today is impossible to implement without cloud technology.
This opinion was expressed by experts on building a digital transformation strategy on the air of the YouTube channel GigaCloud About.
Vyacheslav Nekhoroshikh – Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the FOKSTROT group of companies participated in the filming of the new issue of GigaCloud About, in the past – head of the information security department of PrivatBank CB JSC and Stepan Veselovsky – CEO of the Lviv IT cluster, chief organizer of IT Arena . The host and guests discussed the relevance of the digital transformation of the business, talked about the mechanisms, difficulties and ways of implementing the IT strategy. Using the example of an IT cluster, we figured out a common vision of the digital future of business and the state.
“Clouds in our business are an integral part of an IT strategy,” says Vyacheslav Nekhoroshikh. “Clouds are pure OpEx, this is what is valuable when selling a company. If a business owner ever wants to sell it, hardware will be the wrong asset which is positively appreciated. Therefore, OpEx is the best model that you need to go to the maximum. Of course, there are systems and services that can be difficult or almost impossible to transfer to the cloud from the local infrastructure due to the high confidentiality of the information that is processed in them. But presenting the work of a large e-commerce platform on ground-based infrastructure is now very difficult: it must withstand the loads that arise during seasonal sales or Black Fridays, and without a cloud that provides the ability to quickly scale and flexible settings, it is impossible to ensure its stable operation. , clouds – a very important part of the IT-strategy of the group of companies “Foxtrot. Now we are enough successfully go to the clouds, “live” there and work. “
“It seems to me that in the public sector, the driver of the digital transformation itself will be the citizens themselves,” said Stepan Veselovsky. “When the first sites appeared 15-16 years ago, it was possible to get some information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs or other government services via the Internet. Further the process of obtaining information has become more convenient, and now people can solve all their questions over the phone. In 10-15 years we will have a completely different landscape of voters. Among them there will be few who remember life without technology and more and more who remember “how much time they live with the phone. Because the longer the smartphone is in the pocket, the more memory and mind are configured to accept digital transformation.”
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The channel was created in September 2019 by the cloud provider GigaCloud. The channel in an accessible form talks about cloud technologies, how they affect the business, regular interviews with experts in the field of IT are conducted.