GLOBAL CREDIT UNION
Employees and board members cut the ribbon to officially open the Spokane Financial Center
to be together on a physical network, some really like to be in the cloud. Now we’ re able to connect them, it’ s changed how we think about architecture, infrastructure and security.
“ On top of that, you also have this ability to build things very quickly. All of a sudden, we can provision and build new environments, do innovative things without having to go find a bunch of cables, connect something up, test it and all of that. It’ s really changed what infrastructure is and what it’ s going to be. I think about it now as a flexible digital fabric that just supports everything that we do.”
This flexibility has fundamentally changed how the organisation thinks about architecture, infrastructure and security. The cloud-first approach enables rapid provisioning of new environments and innovation initiatives. On top of this, the transformation has contradicted conventional wisdom about cloud economics, as industry experts typically warn that cloud migration rarely delivers cost savings – however, Lori’ s experience proves otherwise.
“ We have definitely seen that and we have been able to simplify things in completely different ways,” she reveals.“ It’ s just given us a whole new lease on infrastructure than we never had before.
“ I’ d say, if people are starting to look at cloud and they feel it’ s going to be too expensive, just think about the way you’ re doing it because you’ re probably doing a whole bunch of things right now that you can simplify once you hit the cloud.”
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