How cloud migration enables business transformation

The use of new technology will always be a mix of IT push and business pull. But no one would deny that today’s solutions, clouds, and software platforms are both preconditions and drivers of digital business transformation. This roundtable, co-hosted by Cloudreach, is all about sharing knowledge and experience on the benefits of migration to the public cloud. The guest speaker is Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer at Sapphire Systems.

For organizations and their IT leaders, it’s basically about two things. Keeping up with all new digital developments in order to be able to realize business innovation quickly, effectively, and adaptively. But that will not be possible without getting the core in order: the foundation of processes and systems on which all customer and market-oriented innovation can be built.

The public cloud plays a vital role in addressing these challenges. In this breakfast meeting, Chris Gabriel of Sapphire Systems will elaborate on his migration, which had to ensure stability, scalability, durability, and security. “At the same time, we wanted to be able to respond to business opportunities”, says the former CTO, CDO, and current chief strategist of the private equity-owned company. “Ultimately, with a holy grail of features, everything is better now and also gives us a competitive edge.”

The meeting, organized with domain specialist Cloudreach, aims to answer a number of fundamental questions: Why would you migrate to the public cloud? How do you design and create a cloud-based environment in the right way? How do you then properly migrate to such a heavily secure and in the meantime flexible IT basis? And how do you make money with it? Of course, there is room for questions and discussion.

Chris Gabriel

Senior leader in the technology industry, with a career that has blended technology consulting, customer engagement, marketing, product management, go to market development, vendor management, PR, marketing, analyst relations, and strategy leadership across both technology vendor, channel partners and global SI’s. Passionate advocate of strategic positioning and storytelling. Career that has spanned all parts of the digital infrastructure stack, enterprise software, cyber security, managed services and cloud technologies.

Currently Chief Strategy Officer at Private Equity backed Sapphire Systems, the leading provider of Digital Operating Platforms to mid-market and mid-enterprise companies. ESG lead.

John Clarke

John is an experienced Cloud Consultant focusing on enabling large enterprises to transform their business through the adoption public cloud.

John has a background as a technology and solution architecture specialist with a strong track record of leading teams to deliver end-to-end IT solutions to meet the customer needs. He is experienced in working in large scale and complex enterprises providing strategic leadership in the delivery of both organisational as well as technical change.

Prior to Cloudreach John worked for Transport for London (TfL) and kicked off their Cloud 1st Strategy and public cloud adoption programme.