As cloud technologies evolve, expectations from leaders are gradually changing. Building and retaining a team of experts is vital in the digital economy. The role of the leader is also changing and developing in order to determine and implement cloud strategies in the best way.

IT Leaders should redefine operations in order to provide positive and safe business results. The planning and management of infrastructure and operational processes, technologies and human capabilities that ensure the rapid development and presentation of workloads and applications is critical in the success of the business.

Disruptive technologies are difficult for businesses with intensive workloads and may face great difficulties in implementing new technologies. Providing operational stability and implementing the trends and technologies require managerial balance. Enabling new Technologies (AI, Blockchain, Devsecops, ML, RPA…) in a way that will contribute to the business and provide a competitive advantage requires expertise and vision.

Both microservices and containers are destined to play a major role in this enterprise replatforming, for different reasons. Containers, for their part, hold significant benefits both for developers and the development effort as well as for the organization itself. Understanding this range of benefits is instrumental to securing IT budget for containers going forward.

Edge computing initiatives are often deployed in an uncoordinated manner across the enterprise, resulting in operational and data silos. Designing edge systems is challenging due to their technical diversity and integration complexity. Learning and applying the best practices of integrating, deploying and operating edge systems makes it possible to enable business anywhere.

Cloud security is a critical component of an effective Cloud infrastructure that supports operational resilience, security, and compliance. Cloud leaders should focus on securing and defending their increasingly anywhere organizations from exposures and threats, while integrating security, recovery and compliance best practices.

Optimizing costs while delivering value is a consistent challenge and fundamental part of managing Cloud effectively. Maximizing value for business anywhere while optimizing operational costs in the cloud should be the main goal.

Modern, cloud-based applications and infrastructure are becoming increasingly distributed, fragmented and complex, creating a management nightmare. New approaches to managing workloads and operations based on the concepts of system observability, wherever they are, enable new solutions to be created every day.