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Banking CIO Outlook | Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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With the cloud's dynamic elastic scalability and rapid capacity provisioning, banks will no longer have to worry about overloading during peak seasons without compromising the quality or seamlessness of the client experience.
FREMONT, CA: Banks can employ the latest cloud-native technology in conjunction with the domain expertise they have developed over many years to make progress in overcoming the formidable challenges provided by new-age cloud-born fintech enterprises. Banks are going to the cloud with greater intent and velocity as part of their digitalization initiatives. They are finally transitioning away from long-held monolithic systems, overcoming regulatory compliance, security, and skills availability concerns, and accepting the cloud's change and benefits. They will have access to a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure based on agile principles, allowing them to rapidly deliver innovative, customized services to address the changing demands of modern banking operations and clients.
Infrastructure management and maintenance will save operational expenses, so banks are currently more open to combining the two methods. Even large and medium-sized financial organizations that previously only utilized private cloud are increasingly open to using public cloud for their smaller, non-essential applications. A combination of on-premise, private, and public cloud models promises scalability, efficiency, and enduring technological capabilities. Banks might opt to keep on-premises old systems that are not cloud-ready. Technological decision-makers can determine the optimal combination of apps deployed between private and public clouds based on the use-case scenarios most pertinent to their needs.
Banking institutions can avoid the risk of vendor lock-in and seamlessly switch between cloud service providers to suit business and market demands. Examining the added benefits of a multi-cloud setup while making these judgments is essential. They can select the most appropriate cloud service provider for each workload and have greater negotiation leverage due to the availability of several vendors. It will also prepare for the future when rules expect to require banks to use several cloud service providers. Companies can choose containerized deployments to enable automated application development, which boosts overall efficiency. Banks have little to gain by shifting to the cloud using a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy.
The strategy is the most viable for modernization and readiness for the future. Banks will inevitably face complications that can hinder interoperability and seamlessness in the cloud environment. The fact that the application and data tiers get dispersed across distinct cloud environments presents intrinsic problems. Other problems, such as model variability and the absence of standard data replication techniques among cloud service providers, will also result in degraded outcomes. They are choosing cloud-native, cloud-agnostic solutions that can readily integrate into a multi-cloud environment. It enables them to identify the optimal vendor and data configurations for flawless operations.
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