Cloud – accelerate your journey

It’s time to take agility and innovation to new heights

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Where will cloud take you next?

One size does not fit all
Your business is unique but it’s also complex, dynamic and constantly evolving. With the right approach cloud empowers you to excel in a future without limits. Wherever you are now, we will meet you and offer you a guided journey to cloud success.
What worked in the past may not work in the future
Cloud is a unique opportunity to become more agile, innovative and effective. We can help you validate your ideas, explore new ways of working and become a nimbler, fitter organisation.
There have been many costly experiments
Cloud is about how you do computing not where. With GFT by you side your migration benefits from reduced risk, continuous assessment and opportunities for improvement at every stage.

LET'S TACKLE YOUR CHALLENGES

Your challenges. Our solutions.

Transformation

Embrace monolith modernisation

A progressive modernisation can boost agility, increase efficiency and reduce costs permanently.

Let's tackle it

Security

Make it part of your cloud strategy

A GFT security posture assessment gives you a snapshot of your ability to prevent, detect and remediate security threats across all your cloud domains.

Let's tackle it

Strategy

Support hybrid and multi-cloud

Read our point of view and discover why cloud is simply a better way to run your business.

Let's tackle it

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Services to help

you navigate through

cloud

CLOUD SERVICES FRAMEWORK

Services to help you navigate through cloud

Leverage the GFT Cloud Services Framework as your compass. Together we’ll design your individual and clear path to the cloud, providing a long-term roadmap to follow and measure success against. A robust, flexible framework that empowers you to embrace change.

SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS

Great customers. Great cloud stories.

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Capital Markets

Cloud Partner

A winning team

Strong partnerships with leading cloud service providers guarantee optimal solutions. We have dedicated relationships with the world’s major hyperscalers. Together with them, we leverage the cloud to provide innovative solutions to complex problems.

Embrace the inevitable. Seize the opportunity.

Cloud is a journey we all have to take

Barriers to entry are blown away

Everybody can enter the market and have access to massive computing power, with minimum investment.

Cloud levels the playing field. Differentiation and success come from the ability to use it effectively.

Cloud is no longer optional

For established businesses, staying competitive depends on using cloud. For startups, it makes possible new business ideas and models that can challenge companies of any size.

Cloud opens the door

What once seemed impossible can now happen with ease. Your innovations can come to market and start delivering revenues fast.

BY 2025 (according to Gartner research)

95%

new digital workloads

on cloud native platforms
50%

of enterprises

will use distributed cloud options
50%

cloud spendings

surpassing non-cloud spendings
50%

of workloads

on IaaS/PaaS @ hyperscalers

Commercial benefits founded on technology

Agility is the main lever to business success.

New competitors force you to adapt fast and keep up with market changes – or better still, take the lead with creative new ideas that challenge your peers. Reaction time is crucial. The cloud makes it possible to act fast without being limited by investment hurdles or technological boundaries.

Cloud transforms the ability of IT to support the business.

Today's business is nothing without IT. Cloud provides the elasticity and scalability that corporate IT systems need, with the highest levels of security and resilience. Its ‘pay as you grow’ model ensures alignment between cost and revenues, reducing the risk when launching new products and services or developing new business models.

The GFT Cloud Services Framework

ENABLE

We provide a set of well architected assets and tools that will guide you through the decisionmaking process of choosing a cloud service provider (CSP). We also help you to craft a best practice approach and plan to enable the safe and compliant usage of cloud, with an operating model built to last.

Business
Organisation
Assessment and discovery

MIGRATE

Once a CSP has been selected and the operating model defined, the next challenge is to migrate legacy applications. Our team helps you to navigate the complexity of re-architecting, repurchasing, and re-hosting, whilst delivering a robust migration plan that meets objectives and accelerates the realisation of benefits.

Governance framework
Foundation framework
Migration factory

EMBRACE

You’re now ready to start building innovative new applications in the cloud. For this, we’ll provide a set of ground-breaking reference architectures to revolutionise how new projects are designed, built, implemented and managed in the cloud.

Modern architectures
Performance computing
Cognitive services

RUN

Once in the cloud, you can benefit from GFT’s next generation AI-enabled ‘run’ services, built with automation at their heart. These services are delivered by exemplary customer focused service teams, leveraging data to provide new capabilities, following best practice that ensures alignment between the Business, Operations and Technology.

Infrastructure delivery
Application operations
Cloud operating model

EVOLVE

Finally, the GFT cloud services framework ensures your cloud setup to evolve - providing a set of tools that ensure that you’ll remain ‘well architected’ in the cloud, with optionality that leverages the best tools and services available through our cloud partners, in order to remain secure, compliant and ahead of the curve.