In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Krishna Ratakonda, IBM Fellow, CTO IBM Financial Services Cloud, about specialized industry clouds. Together they explore the challenges of compliance and controls in the Financial Services Cloud and the importance of the location of the Cloud systems. In the financial services industry, where 70-80% of the workloads are considered sensitive, they discuss how to operate in a multi-cloud world in a secure manner. And with mainframe computing playing a critical role in the Financial Services industry, Krishna shares how mainframes and cloud computing can coexist to address the demands of mainframe workloads in terms of resiliency, latency, and security. Andre concludes by asking Krishna if he foresees similar fit-for-purpose clouds for other industries and how they might evolve.
Art by Jake Volz.