Cloud Speed

The Island is Deloitte's cutting-edge IT transformation accelerator, delivering a secure, scalable cloud-based environment in just days. It includes core IT services such as cloud infrastructure, networking, and collaboration tools, all built with zero-trust architecture. Ideal for M&A, cyber recovery, and cloud transformation, The Island offers cost efficiency and enhanced security. Its modular design ensures it meets your unique needs, enabling rapid and effective deployment. With our newest episode, discover how The Island can revolutionise your IT landscape today.

In our latest episode, our experts discuss the transformative impact of cloud technology on businesses. The key topics include cloud adoption trends, strategic benefits, migration challenges, and optimising cloud infrastructure. The conversation emphasises the importance of a robust cloud strategy for achieving agility, scalability, and innovation.

The transition from DevOps to DevEx underscores an engineer-centric approach, emphasising continuous feedback and secure-by-design platforms to enhance productivity and speed. This shift empowers engineers with greater autonomy and incentives. In the premiere episode of Cloud Speed's new technical series, "Engineering the Cloud," Deloitte's CTO group, along with a team of technical SMEs from across our firm, explores toolkits, delivery methods, and rewards. They discuss the importance of DevEx, its implementation, and its impact on engineers and businesses.

FinOps is a framework that helps organisations optimise their cloud spend and manage cloud costs effectively. In the latest episode, our guests discuss not only the evolution of FinOps in organisations but the use of Gen AI and cloud unit economics and how organisations are getting ahead in the journey of FinOps.

Leveraging the power of cloud platforms and services drives positive outcomes beyond efficiency and agility. In the latest episode, the Cloud Speed team investigates cloud transformation, the barriers that businesses are facing and how organisations can overcome them to unleash their full potential.

Compliance and control landscape has evolved from managing risks that come with digitalisation or adoption of the cloud to much more of a resilient framework. In this episode we hear from industry experts as they discuss about how compliance has had an impact on the digital age.

Cloud technology is transforming every sector in business – financial services is no different. Banks, exchanges, and of course, FinTechs, are embracing new technologies to help differentiate their offering from competitors, improve efficiency in processes, and launch new products. But what does the future hold? In this episode, we discuss the vision for digital transformation in the financial services space over the next five years.

Over the last decade, the role of a developer has evolved due to the introduction of new tools and technologies. Not only this, but the adoption of agile working and cloud have meant that developers are no longer considered as solely software engineers. Our guests discuss this in further detail, and reveal the best way to acquire and foster new talent in tech.

The definition of a legacy system is becoming increasingly blurred, as rapid developments in technology have meant that code as old as two years can now be considered 'legacy'. In this episode, we assess whether businesses that are 'cloud-first', meaning they opt for cloud-based solutions rather than building their own, have to deal with issues that legacy systems present. We also explain how businesses can overcome legacy system challenges, and what they can learn from digital transformation.

Cloud technology is transforming every sector in business – financial services is no different. Banks, exchanges, and of course, FinTechs, are embracing new technologies to help differentiate their offering from competitors, improve efficiency in processes, and launch new products. But what does the future hold? In this episode, we discuss the vision for digital transformation in the financial services space over the next five years.