{"id":10698,"date":"2019-05-15T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2019-05-15T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T08:57:10","slug":"being-cloud-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/cross-industry\/2019\/05\/15\/being-cloud-native\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4 benefits of going cloud-native"},"content":{"rendered":"
The cloud has been part of our lives for long enough now that we understand its significance. In the RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud report<\/a>, 94 percent of enterprise and SMBs are already are using the cloud.<\/p>\n Now businesses are focused on adopting a cloud-first strategy, moving beyond the compute, storage, and network benefits. Cloud-native is where you build and run applications completely in the cloud \u2013 no on-premise infrastructure required.<\/p>\n Having your applications and systems in the cloud lets you take advantage of new technology easier. By being completely serverless, your employees can operate faster and more flexibly. It\u2019s easy to as scale your business grows and it also makes adapting to changing market environments easier. By not relying on on-premises infrastructure, your organisation also becomes more resilient while reducing spend on IT.<\/p>\n Businesses are also increasingly looking to cloud-native applications to take advantage of technologies such as serverless computing, machine learning, and IoT.<\/p>\n But how do you know if this approach is right for you and your organisation?<\/p>\n Willis Towers Watson<\/a> moved to the cloud so they could become more resilient and make employees more effective. They were using more than 80 on-premise servers to store and process data to provide analytic capabilities that help insurers calculate reserves and prices accurately.<\/p>\n By becoming cloud-native, employees are more efficient meaning they now can do the types of jobs they couldn\u2019t when they were using on-premise systems, such as delivering services to SMBs in new markets.<\/p>\n \u201cWith Microsoft Azure, we have the agility and scale to react to project demands much more quickly,\u201d says Greg Matuskovic, Director of Global Solutions Architecture, Insurance Consulting and Technology.<\/p>\n Best of all, it makes remote and flexible working easier. With 79 percent of UK employees<\/a> believing that flexible working makes them more productive, it\u2019s important to ensure you set up your teams for success – something being cloud-native will help you do.<\/p>\n Finastra<\/a>\u2015a leader in financial software and cloud solutions\u2015wanted to encourage open-source collaboration for its FusionFabric.cloud development ecosystem. By moving FusionFabric.cloud to Azure<\/a>, the organisation has made customer access to the platform ten times faster.<\/p>\n F\u00e9lix Gr\u00e9vy, Global Head of Product Management at FusionFabric.cloud explains, \u201cOur goal was to create an ecosystem of development partners to deliver applications quickly and at low cost. At the same time, our customers would be able to\u00a0leverage fintech innovation in our familiar and stable workflow environment.\u201d<\/p>\n Finastra found that Azure seamlessly integrated their development tools, while implementing a microservices-based, cloud-native architecture. This makes it easier to develop and scale applications.<\/p>\n In the NCSC\u2019s cyber security breaches survey<\/a>, 42 percent of SMBs surveyed identified at least one breach or attack. In 17 percent of those cases, it took businesses a day or more to recover. By being on the cloud, you remove a single point of failure. And with instant backups, you\u2019re up and running before you know it.<\/p>\n To keep up with the scale of cloud-native, you need automatic detection and response to match the scale. Azure is built with security<\/a> in mind to help you detect, protect, and respond.<\/p>\n Azure Sentinel<\/a> takes advantage of the scalability and flexibility found from being cloud-native as well as the power of AI to make your threat detection response faster and smarter. Microsoft Threat Experts<\/a> is another cloud solution that adds context-rich intelligence to enhance your security.<\/p>\n There\u2019s lots of security benefits in the cloud. It also makes it easier to manage users, data, and access, meaning your employees can get on with focusing on the core of your business and you can get back to doing more of what you love.<\/p>\n Because you have the power of new technology, you can take advantage of things like AI or machine learning to gain insights and innovate quicker. And it doesn\u2019t require hiring a whole team of data scientists to implement it.<\/p>\n \u201cMicrosoft allows us to be a pure-play software product company that\u2019s evolving to a software solution company, that\u2019s evolving to a software platform company, all three on the Microsoft Azure Stack,\u201d says Simon Paris, Finastra CEO. \u201cThat opens up a whole new potential for us to move into marketplaces and data monetisation, and become the pre-eminent software player in global financial services.\u201d<\/p>\n Being cloud-native lowers the barriers SMB\u2019s often face when accessing cutting-edge technology. By improving access, it makes it easier for you to innovate and you\u2019re your business successfully.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a world where your business needs to respond in an agile way to the changing world around it, cloud-native lets you innovate and do more, faster. Become more flexible and responsive in a fast-changing environment, while staying secure, giving your employees time to do more of what they love, whilst being able to better connect with your customers.<\/p>\n [msce_cta layout=”image_center” align=”center” linktype=”blue” imageurl=”https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/04\/bank-800.jpg” linkurl=”https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/business\/do-more\/” linkscreenreadertext=”Do more of what you love” linktext=”Do more of what you love” imageid=”10704″ ][\/msce_cta]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now businesses are focussed on adopting a cloud-first strategy, moving beyond the compute, storage, and network benefits. 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