Cloud Speed

The Island is Deloitte's cutting-edge IT transformation accelerator, delivering a secure, scalable cloud-based environment in just days. It includes core IT services such as cloud infrastructure, networking, and collaboration tools, all built with zero-trust architecture. Ideal for M&A, cyber recovery, and cloud transformation, The Island offers cost efficiency and enhanced security. Its modular design ensures it meets your unique needs, enabling rapid and effective deployment. With our newest episode, discover how The Island can revolutionise your IT landscape today.

In our latest episode, our experts discuss the transformative impact of cloud technology on businesses. The key topics include cloud adoption trends, strategic benefits, migration challenges, and optimising cloud infrastructure. The conversation emphasises the importance of a robust cloud strategy for achieving agility, scalability, and innovation.

The transition from DevOps to DevEx underscores an engineer-centric approach, emphasising continuous feedback and secure-by-design platforms to enhance productivity and speed. This shift empowers engineers with greater autonomy and incentives. In the premiere episode of Cloud Speed's new technical series, "Engineering the Cloud," Deloitte's CTO group, along with a team of technical SMEs from across our firm, explores toolkits, delivery methods, and rewards. They discuss the importance of DevEx, its implementation, and its impact on engineers and businesses.

FinOps is a framework that helps organisations optimise their cloud spend and manage cloud costs effectively. In the latest episode, our guests discuss not only the evolution of FinOps in organisations but the use of Gen AI and cloud unit economics and how organisations are getting ahead in the journey of FinOps.

Leveraging the power of cloud platforms and services drives positive outcomes beyond efficiency and agility. In the latest episode, the Cloud Speed team investigates cloud transformation, the barriers that businesses are facing and how organisations can overcome them to unleash their full potential.

Compliance and control landscape has evolved from managing risks that come with digitalisation or adoption of the cloud to much more of a resilient framework. In this episode we hear from industry experts as they discuss about how compliance has had an impact on the digital age.

Cloud technology is transforming every sector in business – financial services is no different. Banks, exchanges, and of course, FinTechs, are embracing new technologies to help differentiate their offering from competitors, improve efficiency in processes, and launch new products. But what does the future hold? In this episode, we discuss the vision for digital transformation in the financial services space over the next five years.

Over the last decade, the role of a developer has evolved due to the introduction of new tools and technologies. Not only this, but the adoption of agile working and cloud have meant that developers are no longer considered as solely software engineers. Our guests discuss this in further detail, and reveal the best way to acquire and foster new talent in tech.

The definition of a legacy system is becoming increasingly blurred, as rapid developments in technology have meant that code as old as two years can now be considered 'legacy'. In this episode, we assess whether businesses that are 'cloud-first', meaning they opt for cloud-based solutions rather than building their own, have to deal with issues that legacy systems present. We also explain how businesses can overcome legacy system challenges, and what they can learn from digital transformation.

The Consumer sector has undergone radical changes over the last two years, with Brexit, the pandemic, and now the cost-of-living crisis creating the perfect storm of uncertainty. However, with change comes opportunity. In the first episode in season 5 of the cloud speed podcast, we discuss the need for digital and cloud transformation in the consumer space, and how businesses that have adopted new strategies are benefitting.

Since launching the Cloud Speed podcast back in 2020, lots has happened! However, one theme that we're still yet to discuss is talent in the Cloud industry, whether this is within consultancies, service firms or product companies. Cloud Speed is excited to be joined by Prathmesh Jadhav, Customer Delivery Architect and Laura Hyatt, Solutions Architect from AWS for our final episode of the series.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is rapidly growing across the globe, with more than 92% of respondents expecting deal volume to increase or stay the same over the next 12 months according to Deloitte's 2022 Future of Mergers and Acquisitions Trends survey. This episode of Cloud Speed provides further insight into M&A activity, to educate you further on this topic.

Converge Prosperity is Deloitte's innovative financial services offering, built on multiple cloud-native technologies. This offering allows our clients to imagine, design, assemble, and deliver the first production release of their next-generation digital bank at pace. This episode of Cloud Speed shares insight into Converge Prosperity, to educate you further on this new offering.

Deloitte's recent Tech Trends report found that 72% of IT leaders already use edge computing, with an increasing amount of enterprise data now being created using edge computing and Cloud. This episode of Cloud Speed explores the topic of 5G and edge computing and why we are asking ourselves 'where is my Cloud?'

Over the last year, we have seen an increase of people shifting from working in an office, to fully working remote from home. Insights from our recent survey on the topic of people's remote work behaviour, strongly suggests that this shift to remote and hybrid working will outlive the pandemic. Globally, half of all employed adults (53%) say they can do their job remotely and prefer a 60-40 hybrid working routine. So, what technologies are pivotal in helping companies that support hybrid working, to stay present and connected with their colleagues?

Cloud is powering every digital transformation, but it's how we deliver the future of work, enhance the customer experience, harness the power of analytics, and achieve the agility that is most important. Deloitte's 2021 Cloud Survey, across 200 UK executives, highlights an internal skill gap, as 1 in 3 Cloud adopters admitted to feeling concerned about their internal lack of ability to execute on their digital strategies. So what skills are organisations looking for to execute their digital and Cloud strategies and how will these change in the coming years?

Cloud adoption operates at a fast pace and there's no sign of this slowing down. Research from Gartner predicts that public Cloud spending in 2026 will exceed 45% of all enterprises' IT spend, which is 17% up from 2021. As enterprises become more and more dependent on Cloud, it's rapidly becoming the most expensive contract for many IT functions. What should enterprises think about when they establish contracts with their Cloud providers? Our guests for this episode are Stephen Reeves, Director in the Commercial and Technology team at Deloitte Legal and George Tilbrook, Senior Manager in the Deloitte Tech Sourcing and Commercial Management team.  Key questions explored in this podcast: What are your views on the big topics in the world of Cloud Contracting for your clients right now? From a legal perspective, what are the crunchy areas that need tackling when supporting clients through the contracting process itself? From a sourcing perspective, what's important for clients right now? With Cloud contracts getting larger, are you seeing a change in the Hyperscalers' approach to contracting? A lot of work goes into getting the right contract in place. From an on0going operational perspective, what advice is there for our listeners? What's the number 1 take away for our listeners from this episode?

In an ever-changing regulatory and risk landscape, Financial Services organisations in the UK that are creating value through the exploitation of Cloud services need to navigate a number of complex topics. Cloud is increasingly becoming an enabler for Financial Services organisations to address their growth ambitions and in this episode we'll be exploring what businesses should be focusing on and how they should approach it. Our guest for this episode is Deloitte's Edward Litchfield, Director in the Digital Risk team and Deloitte's Kyle Irvine, expert in Cyber Transformation Practice in Risk Advisory. Key questions explored in this podcast: What are your views on the key themes in Digital and Tech risk for financial services organisations? The requirements from regulators seem to be adapting to the increasing consumption of Cloud. What, in your view, is different about Cloud that's driving this change? And are there particular timescales around these requirements? For those organisations that also have operations outside of the UK - what are we seeing in other geographies? How are we helping our clients navigate these topics surrounding digital and tech risk for financial services? Where can listeners go for more information on this topic?

As AI and analytics continues to become embedded in everything we do, understanding the impact on business, as well as the wider effect on society, is vital. All organisations have vast amounts of data and analysing it to drive a meaningful experience and value for customers in a compliant way is what we are going to explore in episode 15 and beyond. Our guest for this episode is Deloitte's Leon Duffield & Ray Pulapaka, Directors in the AI and Data team. Key questions explored in this podcast: What is the difference between data analytics and data science? What are some of the use cases where experience analytics (target: customer) can be applied? Are enterprises truly exploiting the power of data? How to get on top of data governance to drive the experience for clients / customers? Where should the skills for data be deployed?    

With the growth of cloud computing and therefore increase in the number of data centres and electricity demand, there's a need for the cloud to become green. The largest cloud service providers have pledged to cut their carbon emissions, signing up to initiatives such as re-100, acronym for "renewable 100 percent, in which members must publicise annual progress reports in their quest to be achieve 100 percent renewable energy. So what practises has the market adopted to achieve sustainability?   Our guest for this episode is Ben Combes, Director, Net Zero Strategy & Climate Tech.   Key questions explored in this podcast:   What exactly is the connection between Cloud & Sustainability? What is driving organisations to put this on their strategic agendas? What are the challenges and opportunities organisations face around Cloud & Sustainability? How far are organisations getting and what are Deloitte doing to help them? Where are the Hyperscalers focussing their efforts? Do you see any particular trends in Cloud & Sustainability across different industries and sectors? What's next in Cloud & Sustainability?