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Optimising for efficiency: Hybrid Cloud strategies, data sharing, and building a sustainable energy future

Sponsored by Rackspace Technology
Thursday 9 May 2024
Searcys at The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8EP

For energy companies seeking to rebalance their portfolios, decarbonise supply, and implement sustainability practices across their supply chain, the role of digital technologies is clear. The successful adoption of artificial intelligence, edge computing, and cloud can help optimise operations, improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce costs. On the road to net zero, digital can prove an effective and reliable ally.

That’s the promise, at least. The reality – especially when it comes to the adoption of public cloud – is more uneven. Frequently the cost and duration of cloud projects is underestimated, inhibiting rather than enabling change. Moreover, poorly conceived cloud adoption can result in software and data lock-in that, in turn, leads to less efficient applications and more costly (and siloed) sharing of data.

For many cloud first remains an aspiration not yet fully realised.

At this NTN roundtable event, we will seek to understand what a pragmatic, cost effective approach to cloud computing looks like. We’ll explore the challenges of adoption and ask how private cloud – an asset-lite consumption based model operating within your own datacentre – could prove the perfect adjunct to public cloud. We’ll discuss the merits of cloud repatriation and the demands of data sovereignty. And we’ll chart a path for public and private cloud into 2025 and beyond.

Topics for discussion

• On a scale from 1-10, where are you on your cloud journey?

• What is inhibiting your organisation from getting the most out of cloud computing?

• Which of the three public cloud hyperscalers – AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform – has your organisation adopted?

• Has the business case of cloud lived up to the promise / your expectations?

• Do you have plans to repatriate any cloud workloads and bring them back in-house?

• To what extent is data sovereignty – retaining control of data in a particular geography – a priority for your organisation?

• What are your cloud objectives for the rest of this year and into 2025?

Timings for the evening:
18:00 – 18:30          Welcome and refreshments
18:30 – 20:00          Introduction to fellow guests and roundtable discussion
20:00 – onwards    Complimentary three-course dinner and drinks
 

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