In my last blog post, we discussed the need for businesses to adopt distributed development and delivery models in order to bring value to their customers. With the advent of distributed organizations, companies have had to adapt to new ways of both developing and making products available to their consumers. Cloud technologies have come to the forefront in providing solutions that organizations can leverage in order to meet and drive consumer demand.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen almost every company that runs software change their strategies to include some type of cloud technology to support their workloads. A distributed world requires some type of distributed cloud availability to support availability of those workloads across the world. Many businesses have dubbed their organizational shift towards a distributed development and delivery model as their ‘Cloud Journey’ or, more broadly, their ‘Digital Transformation’.