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🔥 Feeling the friction between IT and product teams?
💰 Is IT opex higher than you’d like?

Then it may be time to tweak the IT support model.

Check out this article from Nordcloud CTO Ilja Summala on how IT leadership can inject more efficiency and cost-effectiveness into IT operations 👇
https://nordcloud.com/blog/dealing-with-digital-transformation-growing-pains/

Dealing with digital transformation growth pains There's a new challenge for IT leadership: how can central IT achieve the same operating speed as agile product teams? This blog has food for thought.

Are you a user looking for stability after the Broadcom acquisition 👀? We’ve got just the thing for you 🦾!

Join our webinar, “Lock in VMware Licensing Cost With Azure VMware Solution,” on August 21st, 11-12:00 CET.

Petri Salminen, our CTO Microsoft at Nordcloud, and Dheeraj Goyal from Microsoft will show you how to keep your VMware setup running smoothly while planning for future modernisation.

What you’ll learn:
🔹 How AVS ensures cost stability
🔹 3 steps to move VMware to Azure effortlessly
🔹 Technical and licensing benefits

Don’t miss out! Find out more and register here ➡️ 7d34a78a-65ff-4b94-96a9-4231b7025aeb@f8407946-d2c1-4fcc-ae95-63723ace3665" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7d34a78a-65ff-4b94-96a9-4231b7025aeb@f8407946-d2c1-4fcc-ae95-63723ace3665

🙋‍♀️ We're hiring cloud talents at Nordcloud.

If you join the team, you can expect:
☁️A highly skilled multinational team
☁️ Individual training budget and exam fees for partner certifications (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) covered by Nordcloud
☁️ Access to join and the possibility to create knowledge-sharing sessions within a community of leading cloud professionals
☁️ Flexible working hours and freedom to choose your tools (laptop and smartphone) and ways of working
☁️ Hybrid/remote work within the country of interest

Apply now:
🇵🇱 Software Engineer - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bDd2X0
🇬🇧 Senior Presales Cloud Evangelist - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bDcK00
🇩🇪 Cloud Advisor - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bDc_q0

Hot off the press, the next chapter in Finnair’s ✈️
Read how they generated €1 million in savings from an 8-month modernisation project, where we:

⚙️Addressed end-of-life issues
🚀Modernised key service components
📦Containerised 2 applications

And thanks to great teamwork, we finished 2 weeks early 🎉
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bB2hJ0

Finnair Day 2 modernisation - Nordcloud Read how Finnair modernised applications to tackle technical debt, leverage cloud-native solutions – and achieve major savings. And it only took 8 months.

Shockingly (not 👀), 42% of experts see the ability to deliver capabilities at scale as their top priority in the near future. We asked Cloud Revolution Summit attendees to share their cloud-related challenges connected to this topic.

Here's what we've gathered so far:

💬 “How do we integrate into our daily business to support tasks efficiently, without the risk of compromising sensitive data?”
💬 “How do we increase the reliability of GenAI inputs while considering regulatory and confidentiality challenges?”
💬 “We’re still early in our on-prem to cloud journey; how can we realistically get any value from GenAI?”
💬 “There are so many AI solutions, how do we know which one to use?”

Pretty interesting, right? Want to get answers to questions like these? Even better, want to submit your own questions and have them answered? You should probably attend The Cloud Revolution Summit.

See the full agenda, speaker lineup, and register here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bz0xz0

☀️ As summer continues, so do our events! Don't miss the 11 exciting events happening this August and beyond. 📅

Be sure to add them to your diary.

Events
🇫🇮 21 Aug - Helsinki: Get it Right With SAP + Cloud
A breakfast event, helping you move SAP to the cloud and understand the right approach for your business. Join us ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNdt0

🌍 21 Aug - Webinar: Locking in Your VMware Costs with AVS.
Keep your VMware setup running smoothly on Azure while planning for cost security, with experts from Microsoft and Nordcloud. Register now ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNFr0

🇨🇭 4 Sep - Zürich: Nordcloud Connoisseurs Club: AWS Cloud Day
Hear from Nordcloud, AWS and Trend Micro experts on the key topics from the AWS Cloud Day in Zürich. Save your spot ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNLR0

🇳🇱 18 Sep - Amsterdam & Virtual: The Cloud Revolution Summit.
Tech leaders are joining a revolution. Register now to secure your place and challenge our experts with your current cloud pains.
➡️ https://cloudrev.nordcloud.com/Zeqvk3?RefId=LinkedIn+organic+posts

Cloud Training
🌍 13-15 Aug - Virtual: Architecting on AWS. Register here ➡️
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNFp0

🌍 20-22 Aug - Virtual: Advanced Architecting on AWS. Register here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNLQ0

🌍 21 Aug - Virtual: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials. Register here ➡️
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNds0

🌍 16-18 Aug - Virtual: The Machine Learning Pipeline on AWS. Register here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNFq0

🌍 23-25 Sep - Virtual: Developing on AWS. Register here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxLCC0

🌍 24-26 Sep - Virtual: Cloud Operations on AWS. Register here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxNGf0

🌍 12-13 Nov - Virtual: FinOps Certified Practitioner. Register here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bxLrh0

✊ 2 new speakers confirmed ✊

Struggling with your ? IT teams feeling overwhelmed? We’ve got you covered. Join us at the Cloud Revolution Summit for a no-nonsense session featuring top experts from Heineken and IBM:

Michel Brouwers: Product Owner, Cloud & Hosting, The HEINEKEN Company
Sophie Kuijt: CTO, IBM Consulting North Central Eastern Europe, IBM

Plus expert insight from Hans Christoffersson: CTO, Sweden, Nordcloud and moderated by Scott Eivers, UKI Regional Lead, Nordcloud.

The panel will tackle your challenges around:
📈 Boosting capacity in your IT team to support product teams and other business needs.
👩‍💻 Improving IT agility and streamlining costs by reducing technical debt
⚡ Focusing on automation, saying goodbye to manual IT tasks
☁️ Adopting cloud best practices to keep things running smoothly

Don’t miss out on real-life experiences and advice as these experts share their secrets.
Register now and submit your IT challenges to the panel.
https://cloudrev.nordcloud.com/AOQlm0?RefId=Facebook+organic+posts

Don’t put changes off until tomorrow 🚀! Join our team and have an influence on what you do and how you do it, because if you want to change something – you have to do something!
Join Nordcloud team and help us improve the digital world! You may be the one we’re waiting for.

We're currently looking for:
🇵🇱 Google Cloud Architect - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsnq40
🇵🇱 Google Cloud Engineer - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsmqD0
🇵🇱 Software Engineer - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bslLW0
🇵🇱 Global Cloud Operations Center Analyst - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsn210
🇬🇧 Chief Cloud Architect (Principal Architect) - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsnMx0
🇬🇧 Senior Presales Cloud Evangelist - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsnHV0
🇳🇴 AWS Cloud Engineer - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsnq50
🇸🇪 Senior Azure Cloud Architect - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsnqZ0
🇫🇮 Software Developer - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bslLZ0
🇫🇮 Cloud Delivery Center Team Lead - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsnq70

Haven't found anything for yourself? Check our career page for more openings ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bsnq90

Do you know someone who would be a perfect fit for one of those positions 👀? Let them know - share the post with them or tag them in the comments section below.

Brace yourselves, it's , and we're about to debunk some myths that are clouding (excuse the pun) your judgment 👩‍⚖️.

Yep, some people still think those rusty, traditional are more secure than .

Well, get ready to have those outdated, clouded (sorry) perceptions de-fogged as we challenge those myths that are so yesterday, they belong in the ancient IT archive alongside floppy disks, dial-up internet and rollerball mice.

Here’s ✋ myths about cloud security.

1️⃣ “Cloud is Less Secure Than On-Prem”
Actually, the cloud providers invest heavily in , investing in big teams of experts to monitor and protect their infrastructure. They adhere to stringent security standards and compliance certifications, and can look after the updates for you.

2️⃣ “Data in cloud is more vulnerable to breaches”
Nope. providers implement advanced encryption methods to protect data, and offer robust access and authentication controls, reducing the risk of breaches.

3️⃣ “Cloud services lack transparency and control”
Quite the opposite. Cloud providers typically offer comprehensive visibility and control tools, so you can monitor resources, set access permissions, and audit activities in one place, so you can easily maintain governance and compliance requirements.

4️⃣ “Cloud outages are common and unpredictable”
Come on. Sure, cloud outages have occurred, but they’re pretty rare. The major providers invest heavily in redundancy and failover mechanisms to minimise downtime.

5️⃣ “Migrating to the cloud is a risk”
Maybe, if you don’t know what you’re doing. should improve security posture by leveraging the expertise and resources of . With proper configuration and best practices mapped with a clear migration strategy, you should achieve a higher level of security in cloud.

✊ experts confirmed at The Cloud Revolution Summit ✊

We’ve secured these GenAI experts to tackle your most pressing challenges in our first panel discussion of the day.

Sasha Rubel, Head of AI Policy at Amazon Web Services joins Fernando Herrera, the brain behind GenAI startup Dynamico AI, and a special guest customer speaker to answer the challenges you’re having with GenAI right now.

🤔 Expert stories: Gain actionable advice from experts on overcoming common challenges in GenAI adoption and implementation.
👌 Real-world AI integration: Learn how top companies are successfully incorporating GenAI to enhance customer touchpoints and streamline services.
😎 Getting AI right: Discover practical strategies for building and scaling that meet your business and customer needs.

Looking for expert advice on your GenAI projects? Don’t miss out - there’s still time to register and submit your key GenAI challenges to have them answered by our panellists - register here ➡️ https://cloudrev.nordcloud.com/AOQlm0?RefId=Facebook+organic+posts

Calling VMware users 🚀!

We’re co-organizing an exclusive webinar with Microsoft: “Lock in Licensing Cost With VMware Solution” on August 21st, 11-12:00 CET.
Join Petri Salminen, our CTO Microsoft at Nordcloud, and Dheeraj Goyal from Microsoft for an insightful webinar.
If you’re a VMware user looking for stability post-Broadcom acquisition, this is for you 🦾!

🔹Learn how helps with cost stability
🔹Discover the 3 steps to move VMware to Azure effortlessly
🔹Explore technical and licensing benefits

Don’t miss out! Find out more and register here ➡️ 7d34a78a-65ff-4b94-96a9-4231b7025aeb@f8407946-d2c1-4fcc-ae95-63723ace3665" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7d34a78a-65ff-4b94-96a9-4231b7025aeb@f8407946-d2c1-4fcc-ae95-63723ace3665

Trying to get started with sustainable IT at your company 🌱?

Making the case for projects focused on sustainable IT can be a challenge.

In this new article, we share 5 lessons we’ve learned working with companies on sustainable IT projects to help you make the case to get started. Read it here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bgSlm0

Driving sustainable IT projects - Article - Nordcloud To get the senior stakeholder buy-in needed to make sustainable IT projects happen.

Does IT feel overworked?

There are a few reasons why IT teams struggle as progresses and product team demands increase:
⏱️ Legacy SLAs and processes – can’t keep up with the pace of product and feature development, and the infra partner is slow and manual
🤖 Not enough self-service – to meet ‘give me services now’ demands
💰 Costs are too high – and the promises made before aren’t fully materialising
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Confusing accountability – who’s supposed to do what across IT support, and the infra partner?

How do you address these problems systematically? The latest blog post from our CTO Ilja Summala explains ⬇️
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bcTrN0

How to make life easier for IT during digital transformation As digital transformation progresses and innovation accelerates, how do you ease IT’s workload and reduce friction with agile product teams? Read this article.

We're hiring 🚀! Apply today and join a 100% remote team where you can make an immediate impact on exciting projects across every major cloud provider.

Our open positions:
🇬🇧Senior FinOps Advisor - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbG6x0
🇬🇧Industry CTO - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbF7W0
🇸🇪Senior Azure Cloud Architect - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbDD60
🇳🇴AWS Cloud Engineer - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbG6w0
🇫🇮Cloud Delivery Center Team Lead - Kuopio based - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbDw90
🇫🇮Cloud Network Engineer - Kuopio based - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbDtn0
🇵🇱AWS Data Solutions Architect - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbGmr0

Don't see the right position for you 👀? Check our careers page for more.
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0bbDtp0

If you know anything about Nordcloud, chances are you’ve heard one of the things we really like doing is cloud migrations. In fact, some people say we can run a data centre exit quicker than you can say “Fun Fact Friday” 🏎️.

With that in mind, here’s our top 🔟 facts, or reasons, why our customers love moving to the cloud.

🏄‍♀️ Agility: Quickly deploy resources, use native apps and and scale infrastructure up or down based on demand for greater agility and responsiveness to market changes.

🌍 Global reach: Easily expand operations to new geos without the need for physical infras, tapping into new markets and opportunities worldwide.

🤑 Costs: Cloud offers flexibility through pay-as-you-go pricing models, eliminating upfront hardware spend and reducing ongoing maintenance costs.

🤝 Collaboration: Tools and platforms allow seamless communication and teamwork, regardless of location, massively boosting productivity and innovation.

💪 Reliability: Cloud providers offer robust disaster recovery, so teams can quickly recover data and apps if things do go down, minimising downtime and losses.

🔐 Security: Cloud offers advanced security features and compliance measures, often better and easier to maintain than comparable on-prem solutions.

🤖 Innovation: With cloud-based services and tools, teams can easily (and at a lower cost) experiment with emerging technologies like , driving innovation and gaining a competitive edge.

📏 Scalability: There’s basically unlimited scalability, so organisations can easily deal with spikes in traffic or workload fluctuations without disrupting performance or user experience.

🌱 : Cloud infrastructure typically operates at higher levels of efficiency than traditional data centres, reducing like-for-like energy consumption and carbon emissions.

🥇 Expertise: There’s a wealth of expertise and support in the cloud community, empowering teams to leverage best practices and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving tech space.

In building the W3schools Pathfinder application, Nordcloud’s cloud-native experts worked alongside the W3schools team, bringing the service to market in just 4️⃣ months.

This included helping with technical and strategic input and ideas, to bring the concept through to full production on AWS.

Read the full story here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0b89rb0

With upcoming requirements in mind for its largest client, ITSV needed to advance the use of to increase the speed, agility and flexibility of their client-facing services.

Read the full story here ➡️ https://nordcloud.com/case-studies/itsv/

Struggling with navigating all the different tech and products out there 🗺️?

It’s not easy knowing what’s right for your business, who to partner with, or how to navigate licensing and all that tricky stuff.

It’s why we’ve teamed up with AWS and ISVs to make it easier for you.

⬇️ Read this blog from our experts to find out more ⬇️
https://nordcloud.com/blog/driving-your-innovation-with-the-power-of-three-nordcloud-aws-and-isvs/

Driving Your Innovation with Nordcloud, AWS and ISVs See how to unlock your digital potential with Nordcloud, AWS, and ISVs. Drive innovation, maximise cloud benefits, and accelerate your business transformation.

Trying to get started with at your company 🌱?

Making the case for projects focused on sustainable IT can be a challenge.

In this new article, we share 5 lessons we’ve learned working with companies on sustainable IT projects to help you make the case to get started.
Read it here ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0b12_Y0

Driving sustainable IT projects - Article - Nordcloud To get the senior stakeholder buy-in needed to make sustainable IT projects happen.

There are 3 exciting events coming up soon 🌻! Be sure to add them to your diary.

🇫🇮 21 Aug - Helsinki: Get it Right With SAP + Cloud
A breakfast event, helping you move SAP to the cloud and understand the right approach for your business. Join us ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09TbWR0

🇨🇭4 Sep - Zürich: Nordcloud Connoisseurs Club: AWS Cloud Day
Hear from Nordcloud and AWS experts on the key topics from the AWS Cloud Day in Zürich. Save your spot ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09TbZt0

🇳🇱🌍18 Sep - Amsterdam & Virtual: The Cloud Revolution Summit.
Tech leaders are joining a revolution. Register now to secure your place and challenge our experts with your current cloud pains ➡️ https://cloudrev.nordcloud.com/Zeqvk3?RefId=LinkedIn+organic+posts

Are you bored at work 👀? Scrolling through the feed seeking for a possibility to spark your growth and boost your career? This is your signal for change! Join Nordcloud, become a part of our team, and focus on what you do best.
Put your head in the clouds while staying on the ground.

We're currently looking for:
🇵🇱 People Operation Specialist with German - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09_4Df0
🇳🇴 AWS Cloud Engineer - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09_45M0
🇳🇴 AWS Cloud Architect - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09_2x50
🇸🇪 Senior Azure Cloud Architect - https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09_4Cm0

Haven't found anything for yourself? Check our career page for more openings ➡️ https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09_4yC0

Do you know someone who would be a perfect fit for one of those positions? Let them know - share the post with them or tag them in the comment section below.

It’s another , and this one’s a little bit green 🌱

is rightly a big focus for all companies now. And it’s a growing topic when we think of IT and .

Here’s how:

💡 Energy efficiency: Cloud are often more energy-efficient than traditional on-premises ones. They consolidate workloads onto fewer servers and optimise cooling systems, meaning reduced energy consumption per unit.

♻️ Renewable energy adoption: Many cloud providers invest in sources to power these centres. For example, Google announced in 2017 that it had achieved 100% renewable energy for its global operations, including data centres.

📉 Carbon footprint reduction: By leveraging the scalability and efficiency of cloud, businesses can significantly reduce their . Studies have shown that cloud computing can lead to up to 88% lower carbon emissions for some workloads.

🏙️ Green building designs: Some cloud providers are incorporating eco building designs and practices into their data centre construction, like using recycled materials and energy-efficient lighting.

💚 Community impact: Cloud providers invest in projects to promote environmental sustainability. For instance, Microsoft has committed to a carbon negative goal, to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits by 2030.

Sound interesting? Here’s a helpful infographic to help you consider your own environmental impact of your IT operations.

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09YYSm0

Putting the perfect platform in place to accelerate across multiple clouds.

See how we helped ITSV with a smart, approach to infrastructure and automation, giving the agility to adopt newly emerging technologies.

✅ Governance & Processes: 30+ people from different departments forming a virtual team.
✅ & adoption: 50+ Terraform stacks enabling multiple deployments per day.
✅ Speed of releases: With 100% automation of the and platform.
✅ Transformed deliver: Challenged previous methods and established lean ways of working, driving transformation beyond the program.

Read the full story here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09XPWs0

ITSV - Case Study - Nordcloud Nordcloud helped ITSV build a multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform and boost delivery speed on AWS and Azure.

🏆 Nordcloud is a 2024 Microsoft partner of the year award finalist

🏆 And has WON the Azure Migration Modernisation partner of the year award for Finland

A big thank you to Microsoft for recognising Nordcloud as a trusted Azure partner on a country and global level at this year's partner awards.

Read more about what these achievements mean for Nordcloud and our customers here 👇
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H09Xhn30
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Microsoft Partner Awards - Press Release - Nordcloud Nordcloud recognised as a global lead for Azure migrations at the 2024 Microsoft partner awards.