Very few things have accelerated the need for digital transformation within business as much as the adoption of the public cloud. With so much happening in the public cloud or in hybrid clouds, and considering the innovation and applications that are being built specifically for cloud, it would be foolish for a business to ignore that movement or not optimize its processes to work in a cloud environment. But digital transformation is not easy.

On this episode of Future of Tech, Lakshmi Sharma, the Director Product Management, Network Experience, Performance, Reliability & Solutions, Google Cloud, breaks down exactly what digital transformation looks like today, and how Google Cloud is being put to use in the process. Lakshmi explains the definition of digitization today and she discusses where A.I. and the edge can be built into the process. Plus, she predicts the future of building business infrastructure and explains why we need to start thinking about IT infrastructure the same way we think about running water and electricity. Enjoy this episode! 

Main Takeaways:

• Defining Digitization: When a company goes through a digital transformation, it means they are digitizing the organization. But what does that actually mean? Today’s definition of digitization is making it possible to access your services and business from anywhere. So whether you are an employee, a customer or some other stakeholder, your business must be set up in a way that everything is connected so that you can operate at scale from anywhere. 
• Sharing Is Caring: Google deliberately creates cohorts of organizations and CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other C-suite members to share knowledge. Regardless of whether Google built a specific platform or application, that technology can always be shared and improved upon, which happens much easier when you have multiple smart folks from all different ends of the spectrum joining together.
• Updated Infrastructure: What is needed right now is more people to help create easily implemented and scalable infrastructure. Businesses need infrastructure like people need running water and electricity, but we are not yet at a point where IT infrastructure can be turned on and off like a faucet. That is the future.

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