| |JUNE 20229For traditional teams, building cloud native solutions requires a complete shift in the development, deployment, and operations approachtraining and testing large volumes of datasets, the seamless scalability of cloud resources becomes the natural choice for the development of cognitive solutions.Edge Computing: Edge computing is a way to curate, pro-cess, and analyse data near its source, thereby reducing la-tency to high degree. It is predicted that 66 percent of com-panies will use edge computing for a majority of their cloud operations, and an estimated 75 percent of business data might get processed outside the centralized cloud in the next couple of years.Hybrid Cloud: When solutions are built exclusively on a sin-gle cloud toolset, it might lead to vendor lock-ins. Also, as more and more countries have specific legal requirements to host data within the same region, companies will need to adopt a multi-cloud strategy. Most firms may also want to re-tain some parts of their private cloud infrastructure for highly secure and mission-critical data. This will result in a hybrid architecture and seamless data flow & interaction between these layers is imperative. This can be achieved by developing abstraction layers and containerization of application logic, instead of relying extensively on provider-specific products.Security Architecture: The most important parameter to consider during the cloud journey is the overall security strat-egy. Given that the focus will shift from setting-up firewalls to a zero-trust architecture, organizations will need to embrace DevSecOps principles where security is shifted left and is not considered an afterthought. Enhanced digital governance principles and compliance requirements will require defini-tion and implementation of DevSecOps platforms, taxonomy and metrics throughout the development lifecycle, and a conscious switch to adapting 12-factor app methodology for software development.All these changes will require re-architecture of the landscape, reformulation of business processes and careful calibration of the cloud frameworks for safer adoption and better returns on cloud invest-ments. In short, having a defined cloud strategy is important for organizations to innovate at scale. When most modern platforms and solutions are get-ting launched in public cloud, companies will even-tually gravitate towards cloud solutions to bridge the gap between their digital transformation strate-gy and execution.
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