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Current trends in hybrid cloud and multicloud within financial services

Current trends in hybrid cloud and multicloud within financial services

Cloud has moved from leading edge to the baseline of banking success. Discover how banks use and plan to use hybrid and multicloud for core processing.

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Get up to speed with cloud and multicloud adoption

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Learn why 95% of banks choose cloud to reduce time to market

Business agility is the biggest driver of cloud adoption within financial services. Our report also reveals how and why banks are adopting cloud and multicloud strategies and adopting new processing models.

How important is multicloud?

We know that many banks to choose a multicloud strategy to mitigate risk and reduce vendor dependency. But more than 90% of respondents cite multicloud as either an important or very important strategic concern.

What are your cloud platform priorities?

All cloud vendors have unique offerings and respondents have clearly defined platform strategies. Discover why Azure and AWS are a strong primary choice, while GCP is the strongest secondary provider.

Get up to speed with cloud and multicloud adoption

Cloud is now mainstream. Read how top banks are adopting hybrid and multicloud strategies in this processing revolution.

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What drives your cloud strategy?

Independent research suggests:

95%

of banks choose cloud to reduce time to market
86%

of banks will use cloud to drive innovation at scale
81%

of banks plan to use cloud to optimise costs
48%

of banks choose cloud to simplify IT infrastructure

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Be prepared for the future

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Cloud – expand your horizons

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Amazon Web Services

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Standout Google Cloud expertise

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Microsoft Azure engineering excellence

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