Strategies for solving cloud's most pressing issues in 2022

Cloud 2022: The biggest challenges and how to overcome them

As cloud moves into its second decade, there are still growing pains. In this episode, David Linthicum and Mike Kavis discuss cloud’s most pressing issues and offer solutions. Leveraging cloud for innovation, multi-cloud complexity, a talent shortage, and slowing cloud migration are the top challenges. The solutions? Focusing on value delivery, aligning business needs with technology, changing organizational culture, and realizing that slowing down isn’t necessarily such a bad thing.

[Cloud investment] needs to be strategic to the business, not necessarily something that’s tactical that we just throw money and tools at.

As the chief cloud strategy officer for Deloitte Consulting LLP, David Linthicum  is responsible for building innovative technologies that help clients operate more efficiently while delivering strategies that enable them to disrupt their markets.

Mike Kavis is the chief cloud architect in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s cloud practice. He is responsible for helping clients implement the cloud strategy, processes, and architecture to drive digital transformation.

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