A pandemic removes cultural resistance to digital transformation

She mentioned the University of Bologna went live with 50 percent of its classes in the first week and by the end of the second week the classes were 100 percent live. All using Teams for nearly 9,000 students and almost 4,000 different courses moved online.

Schneider Electric was no different. Thanks to help from our partner Microsoft and other valued partners, we benefited from the digital transformation the cloud offered while Covid-19 helped eliminate the cultural resistance to adopting cloud technology.

“People always ask, ‘What’s stopping cloud adoption from going faster? What’s the number one issue?’” Julia said. “And I say, the number one issue is human beings and culture – our willingness to adopt technology and change.”

The last mile – bringing digital transformation home

The move to the cloud highlighted the issue of our dependence on the last mile of connection and showed us that the edge is not abstract – it is real and we may need to think about it differently.

In the conversation with Julia, we discussed how working from home is likely becoming permanent for part of the world’s population. The hybrid infrastructure will now extend into the last mile, highlighting the necessity of data center infrastructure, networking infrastructure, and the distributed compute all needing to become equally resilient.

Additionally, many modern applications have the need for edge compute, but they must also be cloud-connected so where the ‘edge’ ends and the ‘cloud’ begins is becoming . . . I hate to say it . . . ‘foggy.’

The last mile dependency challenge will raise the complexity of our infrastructure for the CIO organization. “Dealing with last mile dependency is very hard, it is very complicated,” Julia said. Knowing the last mile has high variance, Microsoft has thoughtfully managed the degradation in Teams in a way that has minimal impact on the user, she said.

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