siliconindia | | January 20178CLOUD & DEVOPS: AN EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP FOR A BETTER FUTUREBy Kalyan Kumar, Executive VP & CTO-IT Services, HCL TechnologiesIN MY OPINIONHeadquartered in Noida, HCL is one of the fastest growing technology companies built on strong domain expertise. The entity is a combination of unparalleled technical expertise & unique management philosophy.The relationship between Cloud and DevOps has been evolving in response to the drastic societal transforma-tions. Users are primarily giving importance to the over-all experience rather than the product itself. Enterprises are, therefore, focusing on the packaging of products with services. Such transformations are strengthening the relationship between Cloud and DevOps. IT is leverag-ing the advantages of cloud to achieve the DevOps needs. This bonding is getting popular.The 21st Century enterprise is all about creating a long-lasting user experience. Focusing on a user experi-ence is not an over-night decision of C-suits; it's based on the gradual societal transformations and the fast changing user demands. Look at your iPhone, it comes with iCloud and iTunes. Essentially, Apple is not selling standalone products; it's selling an overall experience to its users. It makes iCloud available to its users and manages the usage fluctuation. Apple makes the newly released mu-sic available to users in real time. It is no rocket science to know that Apple manages the development, release and operations of its software fast enough to deliver a user-centric experience that you enjoy. It definitely con-tributes to Apple's go-to-market strategy. The change from a product-centric society to a service-centric world is affecting the service delivery.Today, software development companies manage both development as well as operations on the custom-er's behalf. This all has become possible due to DevOps. This is essential because DevOps is not only a productive way of developing software, but also its outcome pro-vides organizations with agility, affordability, and qual-ity. However, the success of DevOps can be multifold in the presence of cloud. On one hand, DevOps within the cloud delivers transparent and standardized access to resources with application programming interfaces that allow essential communication between applications and back-end services. On the other hand, cloud gives more power to the development and the operations teams by enabling automation features. Cloud and DevOps, thus, are the better halves of each other and add value to each other's life.Transformational MatchCloud and DevOps together can help organizations achieve their digital transformational goals. For example, the redesigned Manchester United (MU) digital platform includes multitude of sub-systems working in tandem with various external service providers to provide an en-riching end-user experience. The new digital platform is expected to provide greater insight into fan behavior, thus allowing marketers and MU sponsors to monetize the huge fan base. Major components of this new platform Technology is a great enabler. Mobile phones, WiFi, Bluetooth and tools help retailers to get up close and personal with the customers
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