“This shift has been a conscious choice, for the reason that cloud makes it feasible to support huge scale operations and an extraordinary stage of innovation. There’s additionally the brought benefit of growing flexibility and a higher functionality in business capabilities and tactics,” Goutam Datta, CIDO, Bajaj Allianz Life.
Technology conglomerate Cisco is transforming its infrastructure to more software-pushed, with API-based abilities. Along with diverse virtualization technologies, this allows the company to have interaction with its infrastructure through code, permitting business agility.
To support its various functions, Cisco runs thousands of applications – from custom-built to off-the-shelf and even SaaS. Depending on the workload, it is decided what is the best place to host these applications. For example, the customized workloads that support the core transaction systems like ERP, finance, etc., are typically deployed on-prem.