Any modern datacentre will employ cloud in some form or another. Its role has been integral in being innovative, remaining competitive and even sustainable in business. This became painfully clear when the pandemic struck. Almost overnight, there was a mass exodus of businesses scurrying to the cloud to enable distributed workforces. Many organisations got up and running rapidly in the public cloud, and it’s well understood that those that were advanced on their cloud journeys and cloud-ready did infinitely better than those that weren’t.

But is it that simple? Optimising workloads for the cloud takes a lot of time – a luxury Covid-19 didn’t allow – and not every application moved to the cloud was necessarily suited to that environment. There is more to getting applications running in the cloud than just copying and pasting all the elements, says Paul Spagnoletti, business unit executive: Cloud at iOCO.