Network Communications News (NCN) May 2017 | Page 22
CLOUD COMPUTING & VIRTUALISATION
The role of Cloud Assurance
in Digital Transformation
It would be unwise to suggest the digital transformation (DX) that’s impacting every sector, from
financial services to heavy industry to retail, has not benefited, or been driven completely, by cloud
computing, says Michael Segal, area vice president for strategy at NetScout.
W
ith the cloud’s
revolutionary
technology,
new digital
centric
businesses are emerging with more
agile and innovative practises that
have scarcely been seen before.
Enterprises that have been long
established now need to worry
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about new and agile competitors,
whilst also being subject to
mass upheaval that they haven’t
experienced before. Indeed, figures
from IDC have shown that one-third
of the top 20 companies in every
industry will have been disrupted
by other more digitally focused
companies by 2018. What does this
mean? Disrupt or be disrupted.
To try and keep up, enterprises
are now on a modernisation
path that is accelerated, aiming
to extend, or even just maintain
their leading status in industry.
For more established enterprises
this is a per tinent challenge;
they aren’t green star t-ups
that can be purely cloud based.
Legacy systems and applications