Wavelength Podcast Ep. 223: IBM’s Likhit Wagle on Cloud Adoption
IBM’s general manager of global banking joins to talk about challenges and opportunities surrounding public cloud adoption and containerization.
Wei-Shen Wong, Asia Editor, and Anthony Malakian, Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.
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For the last podcast of 2020 here at WatersTechnology, Wei-Shen speaks with Likhit Wagle, general manager of global banking at IBM, about how financial firms are approaching cloud and containerization technologies.
5:00 Likhit joins the podcast and opens by explaining how banks should approach their cloud strategies.
13:00 He then discusses IBM Cloud for Financial Services and how banks are currently migrating to the public cloud.
16:00 Next, they look at the challenges associated with a cloud architecture versus on-prem.
23:00 Then he examines optimal ways for firms to keep on top of their cloud expenditure.
30:00 From there, Likhit delves into the challenges and costs associated with sunsetting an application.
34:00 He follows that with a look at how IBM Cloud for Financial Services structures contracts around flexibility.
38:30 While a believer in containerization, he analyzes what firms should be aware of when using these services?
46:00 Likhit wraps up the conversation by talking about his hopes for 2021.
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https://www.waterstechnology.com/technology/4224076/lessons-learned-from-early-public-cloud-adopters
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Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com
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