Joen Meier Olsen, senior manager of strategy advisers in EMEA for Apptio, says: “The hybrid cloud conversation in the Nordics focuses more on a cloud-if-it-makes-sense principle, rather than a cloud-first principle. Companies are moving to the public cloud if it makes sense from a financial or operational perspective compared to the existing setup, whereas the rest of EMEA is probably more a cloud-first approach.”
Nordic organisations were early adopters of private cloud, developing the skill set and the operational intelligence to run clouds in their own datacentres or in a co-location arrangement. But as is often the case, early adopters of one technology become laggards when faced with a subsequent innovation.
