1、INDEPENDEN T P U B L I C AT I O N BYRACONTEUR.NET05/03/2023#0856youve been regularly paying for something which you havent been regularly using.In PwCs 2023 Cloud Business Survey,78%of those who took part said they have adopted cloud to some level in most or all parts of their business.Yet more than
2、 half have not realised the outcomes they were after,such as lower costs,greater resilience and new revenues.“An IT-centric lift-and-shift approach to moving to the cloud or simply running functions or parts of a business on the cloud is not enough to make a difference,”says Warren Tucker,a partner
3、and cloud and digital lead at PwC UK.“This is where busi-nesses can miss out on opportunities.”The lift-and-shift model,which is also known as rehosting,is when a business moves exactly what it is running on its own servers onto cloud services.Traditionally,this has been public cloud via one of the
4、big providers,such as AWS,Microsoft,Google,IBM,Oracle and Alibaba.According to Dalgas,the thinking around public cloud has shifted.Two years ago,due largely to the pandemic,conversations were mainly around using public cloud services for every workload.Today,that is no longer the case.Businesses are
5、 looking at specific workloads and choosing appropriate cloud services to fit.By assessing each workload through a set of metrics,including cost,data sovereignty,security,compliance and so on,businesses can determine the most appropriate route to take.“Steady workloads work better in private clouds.
6、The economics stack up better,”says Dalgas.“But if you are running a project or data processing for just two days a month,very spiky workloads,you will be better off in the public cloud,which is more elastic.”Clouding the issue:firms rethink how tomanage dataHigh energy costs and net-zero targets ar