"Digital Transformation is fuelled by cloud adoption"

Lata Singh, Executive Director (IBM Partner Eco-system) - IBM India

Digital transformation is obviously fuelled by the adoption of cloud and therefore cloud planning has to be a key to it, not just the cloud part of it but the entire technology areas of IoT, AI and the others that the organizations are adopting, a critical piece of that entire digital journey that organizations are doing is the architecture and that is where the cloud planning falls into the architecture side. What are you deploying now, what are you building now, will it last for future, will you be able to keep that architecture from where you are building it to can you deploy it as you move forward, can you keep your own key, do you want to have control over the data that are very critical. So I would say digital transformation is fuelled by cloud adoption and therefore cloud becomes an integral part of how you plan your cloud - is it private, hybrid or public cloud and that has to be the architecture that defines your strategy for moving forward.