Navigating Cloud Change Management: Strategies for Data Modernization and AI Readiness
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
A recent 2024 TDWI survey shows that 45% of organizations are evolving their data strategies primarily to support modern analytics, including machine learning and AI. As companies gather diverse data types, they face pressures to modernize their foundational data systems to handle growing data volumes and enable automation to process data more effectively for AI. This often necessitates a move from on-premises databases to cloud platforms.
Cloud platforms enable agility, data availability, and scalability to support the compute-intensive nature of AI. Yet the complexity around refactoring, replatforming, and cost continues to be a challenge, along with other issues. In addition, organizations need to transform their economic models, develop new processes and delivery pipelines, and upskill existing teams to ensure migration costs result in tangible benefits and outcomes.
Join this TDWI webinar with TDWI’s VP of research, Fern Halper, and Paul Lewis, chief technology officer (CTO) at Pythian, as they discuss how to best modernize to the cloud and key strategies for overcoming challenges. Topics include:
- Building a cloud-smart strategy: Why organizations are migrating databases to the cloud
- Common challenges of cloud migrations and data modernization including organizational change management and technical complexity
- Best practices for migrating and modernizing data in the cloud
Guest Speaker
Paul Lewis
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Pythian
As CTO, Paul Lewis drives Pythian’s technology strategy, helping customers leverage and scale their data and cloud assets to deliver valuable business outcomes throughout their digital transformation journey. In addition, Paul steers technical innovations that continue to expand partner relationships.
As a 25+ year global CTO and technology executive, Paul is well-known in the industry for his impassioned technology evangelism, customer advocacy, and technological and business strategy, particularly related to digital transformation and operational IT strategy.
Fern Halper, Ph.D.