By 2025, more than 85% of global firms will run containerised applications in a production environment, up from 35% in 2019. The challenge these organisations are wrestling with is how to support application modernisation, getting the balance right between cost savings and investment.

This was the focus for our CBR Masterclass series which took place on Zoom throughout March 2021. Sponsored by Hitachi Vantara, a group of senior IT and security professionals discussed the journey from on premise to hybrid cloud via virtualisation and containerisation.

Among the key takeaways - take an application-centric approach to cloud adoption; 'change then move' is the typical journey from legacy application to containerised apps but it is not the only approach; and when looking to store data in the public cloud, don't forget to read the small print.


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Speakers

Neil Lewis
Cloud Specialist at Hitachi Vantara EMEA

Neil is always busy creating world class proposals to help customers make the most of their data enabled digital transformation. Neil has worked in IT Services for over 20 Years of which the last 15 years has been in Solution Architecture. Previously worked with developing and selling industry leading Public and Private Cloud offerings and leading strategic as-a-service proposals for clients all over EMEA and also holds a background working directly within the UK Public Sector delivering IT Services across central government departments.

Tom Christensen
CTO Hitachi Vantara

As a professional with +20 years of experience in the IT industry, Tom uses his skilled experiences and talents to get a solid knowledge of the current business situation. He then prepares a new solution or strategy based on the achieved insight and combines it with a proven technology that has a future trend in the market. Tom thereby supports organisations in achieving their future goals. He brings insight into valuable solutions in the data centre from Big Data Analytic, Applications, Hypervisors,Cloud & Converged platforms including compute, storage and network.