Own data centers and their own infrastructure are often expensive, especially with respect to investment and operating costs. Even hosted infrastructures still require regular replacement and expansion investments. From digitization, new requirements also arise for the IT infrastructures in terms of scalability, agile service provision, high standardization of resources and "on demand" flexibility in computing performance and storage.
New development methods, such as DevOps, as well as approaches like Internet of Things (IoT) or other technical developments, are based on cloud technology, which can hardly provide their own infrastructure services. Digitization ultimately drives cloud computing and vice versa. In this way, cloud computing reaches a broad application after long years of discussion and becomes a mainstream. Software-defined infrastructures form another strategic top trend.
Cloud computing is definitely not always associated with cost savings, even if this is often suggested by the cloud providers. The cost effects depend not only on price for the cloud resources, but also by their own cost (now and in the future to manage the cloud infrastructure) and the amount of transition costs that the result of the migration to the cloud as well as the necessary architecture adaptation to affected or connected systems. Regardless of the cost impact, however, significant advantages arise from the use of cloud-based infrastructures:
Shorter deployment times for configured resources
Standardization of deployed and used infrastructure configurations
Availability of dynamically scalable resources
Unified management of computing power, storage and network
Increased reliability through automated resources orchestration and increased fault tolerance
Improved reporting and monitoring through combined infrastructure management layers
Ultimately, it is a strategic decision whether and to what extent to deploy cloud infrastructures. A serious consideration should be made in any case, as many of the benefits of the cloud are difficult to achieve through their own data center. Our structured approach helps to quickly and transparently get transparency about where clouding is meaningful and which cost and operating effects arise thereby. A good basis for defining and implementing the cloud strategy.
Martin Stephany sees the successful transformation as the focus of his consultancy work in order to achieve sustainable customer benefit, with qualitative and quantitative analysis being the basis for consultation and complex content. He specializes in the areas of IT strategy, IT innovation & transformation and operational excellence and has extensive experience in numerous industries including IT services, financial services, energy, telco and manufacturing.
Manager
Master of Science in International Management
Competent, Creative, Change Driven, and Customer Focused - These are the four values that guide every 4C person in their daily work. For Christopher Kaetz, the foundation of the 4C values, the competence, is the central element in creating lasting added value for every customer. His personal competence is based not only on his business know-how, but also on many years of consulting experience from a wide variety of organizations, companies and industries.
His focus in CIO Advisory is on IT strategy and control, Target Operating Model, and Cloudification.
Martin Stephany sees the successful transformation as the focus of his consultancy work in order to achieve sustainable customer benefit, with qualitative and quantitative analysis being the basis for consultation and complex content. He specializes in the areas of IT strategy, IT innovation & transformation and operational excellence and has extensive experience in numerous industries including IT services, financial services, energy, telco and manufacturing.
Manager
Master of Science in International Management
Competent, Creative, Change Driven, and Customer Focused - These are the four values that guide every 4C person in their daily work. For Christopher Kaetz, the foundation of the 4C values, the competence, is the central element in creating lasting added value for every customer. His personal competence is based not only on his business know-how, but also on many years of consulting experience from a wide variety of organizations, companies and industries.
His focus in CIO Advisory is on IT strategy and control, Target Operating Model, and Cloudification.
