At a time when businesses are under growing pressure to deliver operational excellence and transformational innovation, more and more IT decision-makers are turning to the hybrid cloud to improve performance, drive growth and enhance flexibility.

For some, a hybrid cloud infrastructure represents a best of both worlds approach, enabling IT leaders to customise the optimal mix of public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure solutions. It has proven to help organisations become more agile, manage costs and remain fit to meet the demands of a fast-changing digital landscape.

It is, however, by no means a silver bullet, and many businesses across a variety of industries have yet to realise a significant return on investment from cloud. Among the barriers are regulatory demands, including data residency, and a need for low-latency connections. For these and other reasons, sometimes on-premise is the more sensible destination. And it’s why hybrid cloud – combining public cloud solutions with on-premise resources, often in your own or co-lo facilities – is proving attractive.

This exclusive Tech Monitor roundtable dinner, in partnership with Lenovo, will dissect how hybrid cloud can help businesses achieve operational efficiency, meet ESG credentials, lower costs, and outperform their peers on revenue growth and profitability.

The event is an opportunity for senior IT leaders to come together in a relaxed and convivial setting to share migration frustrations and opportunities, discussing to what extent the use of hybrid cloud can help organisations punch above their weight in the global economy.

Topics for discussion will include:

  • Workload optimisation: public vs. private cloud
  • Combatting the escalating cost of the public cloud
  • Harnessing hybrid cloud to meet sustainability goals and boost ESG credentials
  • The important of transparency
  • The future of data residency
  • Striking correct balances in managed services agreements
  • Safeguarding interoperability
  • Achieving low-latency connections

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Roundtable: Streamlining your business with hybrid cloud

A rapidly evolving digital landscape coupled with increasingly challenging economic conditions means that more businesses than ever before are turning to the cloud.

The attraction of cloud is clear: a fully managed, cost-effective and scalable environment is perfect for many workloads. For other workloads, however, migration is not so easy, and businesses across a variety of industries have yet to realise a significant return on investment from cloud.

Spiralling costs, interoperability in and between cloud providers, and synthesising legacy systems are just some of the frustrations. Wrestling with this challenge, organisations are increasingly reaching for a hybrid cloud alternative – combining outsourced IT services off-site with optimised on-premise environments.

This exclusive Tech Monitor roundtable dinner, in partnership with Lenovo and AMD, will address how businesses can harness the power of hybrid cloud to drive growth, enhance agility and achieve operational efficiency.

The event is an opportunity for senior IT leaders to come together in a relaxed and convivial setting to share migration frustrations and opportunities, discussing to what extent the use of hybrid cloud can help their organisation remain fit to compete in today’s global economy.

 

Topics for discussion will include:

  • Workload optimisation: public vs. private cloud
  • Utilising the cloud to drive sustainability and promote ESG credentials
  • Ensuring transparency in hybrid clouds
  • Maintaining interoperability
  • Striving for low-latency connections
  • Data residency considerations
  • Striking correct balances in managed services agreements
  • Keeping pace with regulatory demands and requirements

This exclusive event will shed light on the latest advancements in data-driven decision-making and assess how (re)insurers are utilising advanced analytics, generative AI and cloud technologies to make better-informed decisions, enhance operational efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. It is an opportunity for senior leaders to come together and discuss shared challenges and opportunities in a relaxed and convivial setting, addressing the action and collaboration needed to ensure data and cloud transformation success across the industry.

Please note your registration is subject to approval. A member of the New Statesman Team will be in touch to confirm your participation. 

In a world where macroeconomic conditions can change the face of business in an instant, it is more important than ever for finance and IT departments to move in lockstep. Savvy finance leaders know that they have to work with their IT colleagues to achieve success; but often, the departments are so separated they have trouble understanding one another.

In this webinar we will address the critical role financial responsibility plays in the success of business, and how decision makers can work together to instil a culture of financial responsibility across an organisation. Much like a culture of security, one of financial responsibility brings many benefits, including improved decision making, increased efficiency and reduced risk. We will explore those benefits in detail and look at how IT and finance leaders can both establish and maintain that culture, with real-world examples. As well as the importance of financial responsibility, we will delve into the key components of a responsible culture, the challenges organisations face in establishing that culture, and how to overcome them. We will also address the importance of communication and transparency between departments, and how that communication can help build trust. Finally, we will look at key aspects of the modern financial world and why IT must be involved in any rollout of new finance systems: from automation to save time spent on manual processes, to open APIs encouraging integration with other applications.

This webinar, conducted by Sage and hosted by Tech Monitor, will provide IT and finance decision makers with valuable insights and practical strategies for working together.

Finding value in the hybrid cloud

As businesses around the world face up to challenging economic conditions, they are turning to the cloud in greater numbers than ever before.

And while the fully-managed, cost effective, secure and scalable environment offered in the cloud is perfect for many workloads, others cannot be as easily migrated. Data residency and other regulatory requirements, or a need for low latency, can mean businesses must keep certain information on-premises.

That’s where the hybrid cloud comes in. By combining public cloud solutions with on-premise resources (in your own or co-lo facilities), businesses can enjoy the best of both worlds, keeping costs down and potentially boosting their sustainability credentials in the process.

How can businesses successfully transition to a hybrid future? What are the main challenges involved? At this roundtable supported by Lenovo & Intel, Tech Monitor will convene senior IT leaders to discuss how organisations can navigate the hybrid cloud landscape, and how they can obtain best value for money from hybrid cloud deployments.

Topics for discussion will include: 

  • Ensuring transparency in hybrid clouds
  • Utilising the cloud to drive sustainability
  • The evolving regulatory landscape
  • Striking correct balances in managed services agreements

Technology and digital services are increasingly held up as a key component of any solution to the global climate crisis and public sector organisations are under growing pressure to operate in a way that protects resources, makes good business sense and mitigates environmental impact.

Adopting sustainable IT practices not only lowers costs by reducing energy consumption and waste but also has significant potential to improve delivery, increase efficiency and develop public trust and engagement.

This exclusive New Statesman and Tech Monitor roundtable dinner will convene technology and sustainability leaders from across the UK public sector to discuss the initiatives driving meaningful action.

It will set out to identify shared challenges, potential solutions and inspire cross-sector collaboration to develop a more sustainable and digitally resilient state.

Moving to the cloud is never simple. Businesses looking to scale their operations by moving key services into the cloud are looking for a service that’s scalable, flexible and cost-effective. What they often encounter, however, is a migration exercise fraught with practical challenges and hidden costs.

The hybrid cloud offers a way for companies to avoid this quagmire. By outsourcing only a portion of its IT services off-site while building an optimised, on-premises solution to handle its most critical and sensitive functions, a business can – theoretically – have the best of both worlds. But how can organisations achieve this without compromising on security and functionality?

In a roundtable supported by Lenovo & Microsoft, Tech Monitor will convene senior IT leaders to discuss to the extent to which adopting hybrid cloud computing enables businesses to meet technical requirements while simultaneously benefiting from the flexibility of a scalable and transparent pay-as-you-go model.

Topics for discussion will include:

  • Ensuring transparency in hybrid clouds
  • Scaling at pace to meet evolving business requirements
  • Utilising the cloud to drive sustainability
  • The importance of effective cloud security
  • Maintaining interoperability
  • Striking correct balances in managed services agreements

 

Growing rapidly is no easy feat for businesses, but with a firm understanding on how to do so successfully and with strong technology partners, the journey can be smoother than expected. For Forecast, building a strong foundation for their finance team was essential on their growth journey.

Join Sage Intacct and Tech Monitor as we discuss how businesses have used technology to alleviate pain points and what unexpected benefits they have seen since implementing the right software to help them grow. We will be joined by Forecast who will share insights from their journey to improve their finance function who were struggling with inconsistent reporting and unnecessary time-consuming work in their finance team, with the help of technology.

In this exclusive Sage Intacct and Tech Monitor webinar we will:

  • Hear from Forecast about their growth journey and how technology has helped them along the way
  • Discuss the benefits of using best-in-class finance software instead of a best-in-breed finance software
  • Look at how Sage Intacct supports their clients and helps to build a strong finance function foundation