Cloud migration has been a success for mortgage lender Ginnie Mae, driven in large part by constant communication and sound strategy. Advanced planning, a collaborative culture, and cloud governance also helped them reach their goals.

Many organizations wrestle with cloud performance and ROI issues. Data clouds can help. So can better data strategy, lower latency, collaboration, and giving developers the support they need.

Starting with a mandate to become more agile and optimize IT costs, Geisinger Health has written an amazing cloud success story with a cloud-first culture and a highly-trained workforce to help them build a cloud-native future.

Cloud costs are soaring for many companies, without any real insight as to why. For answers, many organizations are turning to FinOps—a collaborative, cross-functional approach to cost transparency, accountability, and optimization.

Repatriation of cloud apps to on-prem is a hot topic these days. But it comes with its own, often costly, issues. Instead, many organizations are choosing to optimize their cloud apps in place—which might be the better choice.

Multi-cloud complexity is growing, and it's hobbling cloud performance and shrinking value. Enter superclouds--a layer of automation and abstraction that spans the cloud ecosystem and can help manage multi-cloud complexity.

The use cases for blockchain are growing. One new disruptive use will be to change the relationship between employers and employees, as they utilize the technology to innovate and  reshape the workplace. 

Cloud is a mature technology, but there are still growing pains--especially around multi-cloud complexity and costs. Cross-cloud strategy and supercloud might be ways to ease the pain. 

Industry clouds are trending right now, and rightly so. Their composable nature helps companies develop industry-specific solutions that enable them to get a competitive edge, and possibly get higher ROI on cloud investments. 

How do you overcome challenges to achieve your cloud goals? Elevance Health, has done it by making the right combination of technical and operational decisions and building a supportive cloud culture.