What is the importance of Cloud First – Mobile First strategy as people are adopting cloud?
by Piyush Rakhecha in Cloud, General
Embracing change is important if we want to stay relevant in today’s world specially when massive change is happening in the way business operates in the COVID-19 world. Conventional office setup has given way to remote working and social distancing. Cloud based IT operations are replacing traditional legacy systems. Organizations need to ask themselves will they continue to resist change and lose out in the long run or embrace change and gain a competitive advantage?
What is a Cloud-first – Mobile first strategy and its importance?
Cloud-first is a strategically designed method which enables your company to perform application development, operations, projects, tests and other processes directly on the cloud service provider’s network instead of building systems and private storage facilities. Similarly, a Mobile first strategy is building your applications such that they operate properly on the mobile device. Once the application is tested and ready to go mainstream it is positioned as a core point for customer engagement. Thus such application integration gives you unhindered access to all the resources and also enhances customer experience by offering opportunities for targeted marketing.
Imbibing cloud-first will facilitate the automation of the IT infrastructure while mobile-first will help organizations to directly address and cater to the customer requirements on mobile and website accessible platforms. Businesses can reduce cost and leverage myriad benefits through the application of enhanced design, agile capabilities and automation.
Benefits of Cloud First- Mobile first strategy:
- It gives your organization the ability to rethink and redesign your business and IT strategy
- Boosts productivity, promote agility in operations and improve scalability
- Provides a secure and stable environment
- Improve the customer touchpoint by providing multiple ways for the organization to connect with the internal and external customers
Can organizations go the cloud way alone?
While it’s easy to say that organizations should have a Cloud-first, Mobile-first strategy, in real life it’s not so easy. The transitioning process is strewn with multiple challenges. Some of the issues that organizations encounter include:
- The current business applications were built utilizing the conventional IT knowledge and expertise. Therefore, these applications may be monolithic and designed for fixed/static limits in data centers. This means moving them to the cloud won’t mystically bless them with all the dynamic features of the cloud. In fact, it might become expensive with the limitations removed
- In such organizations, the typical tech workforce while well versed with conventional IT system, don’t have awareness and experience to optimally utilize the Cloud ecosystem. They need to be re-skilled and trained for the cloud ecosystem.
- As cloud strategies are implemented and integrated with the traditional model, the security landscape also changes with new threat vectors being introduced. The traditional security infrastructure needs to be enhanced to handle the new threats and vulnerabilities.
This is where Nuage steps in
Having worked with a lot of organizations on the Cloud, our architects, developers and DevSecOps team members are well versed with the new Cloud first – Mobile first paradigm. Our architects have decades of experience with traditional IT landscape and have successfully moved from the old world to this new exciting world.
We, as your partners on the journey, will collaborate with your team right from assessing organization needs, designing an industry-standard cloud strategy to deployment and managing your cloud infrastructure.
Need help to get the most out of your cloud integration? Contact our team of cloud experts at info@nuagebiz.tech