The public cloud and the adoption of cloud and AI has fundamentally changed how organisations think about technology — and we’ve had a front-row seat to that change working with some of the largest companies in the world.
In the early days, the dominant conversation was around hesitancy: data sovereignty concerns, security uncertainty, and a general reluctance to move critical workloads off-premise. What we’ve seen since is a decisive swing in the other direction, as hyperscalers have matured their security layers, compliance frameworks, and service depth to the point where the cloud is now the default assumption, not the exception.
More recently, AI has added an entirely new dimension. It has opened up the capability of data directly to business teams — not just technical ones — which means the foundations organisations have built in the cloud now carry far greater strategic weight. Security and data architecture decisions that once felt like infrastructure hygiene are now directly tied to how effectively a business can deploy AI.
With the incredible pace of change occurring in the market today, thanks to AI, the ability of an organisation to rapidly evolve technology by leveraging the power of the public cloud has moved from a strategic advantage to a matter of survival. Organisations that don’t leverage AI effectively in every single aspect of their organisation will not be able to compete, and the only way to leverage AI at the speed required is to have a holistic, business-aligned cloud capability that allows you to deploy AI rapidly and that securely, efficiently, and reliably unlocks the power of all of an organisation’s data and knowledge.