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Top cloud technology strategies

• Building a cloud strategy for 2025 requires a balanced approach across SaaS, IaaS, PaaS.

• Key considerations include SaaS procurement, embracing multi-cloud, integrating AI, data
management with security and compliance practices.
• CIOs should develop a cloud strategy that leverages Open SaaS tools for collaboration and project
management, alongside PaaS for custom application development.

• CIOs must focus on cost-efficiency, flexibility, scalability, while improving cloud services to support
business growth.

• Ensuring secure and efficient data storage and processing through IaaS will be key to optimising
infrastructure projects.

• Cloud native application protection platform solutions replace a patchwork of siloed products that
provide only partial coverage.

• By adopting a CNAPP approach CIOs can unify security and compliance technologies to gain
contextual visibility into their cloud.
• CIOs should position AI as a core component of their cloud strategy, leveraging its capabilities to
anticipate and meet consumer needs.

• Consider AI a first-class citizen that can amplify rich capabilities.
• Service platforms must focus on talent optimisation and automated workflows to maximise the new
level of insight in real-time.

• Hybrid cloud platforms will require sophisticated cost management, with a shift towards AI-
augmented FinOps.

• DevSecOps must evolve to address the dynamic demands of intelligent service platforms.

• As AI usage surges, cloud usage will rise, requiring organisations to reconsider foundational LLMs
from traditional cloud providers.

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