8CIOReview | | MAY 2022IN MY OPINIONIn the financial services sector, speed of cloud adoption has been varied. The mix of legacy infrastructure, regulatory requirements and cultural change that's required for technology teams means that adoption in the industry has been mixed. At the same time, the benefits of cloud adoption for enterprises of any shape and size are well known: scalability, speed, better insights into costs, speed of innovation. The list goes on.At UBS, we pride ourselves on being early adoptors of the cloud in the banking sector. And while we are enjoying all of the well known benefits of the cloud, we've started to see a number of other benefits as we've embarked on our cloud adoption journey, which is now entering its sixth year.Early adoptors will be your biggest advocatesAs we started to stand up our instance of the Azure cloud, there was a lot to do. Ensuring the right controls and policies were in place was paramount. At the same time we needed to ensure that we had scope and expertise to start building applications in the cloud. This is where our pioneers came in. Born from both necessity and the need for scalability, a small number of development teams had the opportunity to develop cloud native applications. After a lot of the initial work and overcoming the steep learning curve, teams quickly found that the speed at which they could spin up an instance in the cloud rather than the lead times associated with provisioning resources in our data centres was really rewarding. Armed with new and faster tools, early cloud adopters have also been the strongest advocates for the uptake of the cloud. Within the firm, we've found that developers and engineers who have been working on the cloud since the start of the journey are more likely to do things like contribute to internal development forums and often act as mentors for teams who are embarking on the migration or development journey a bit later.A cloud-based developer experienceAt UBS, we created DevCloud--our Cloud-based, compliant, CI/CD tooling. Run in GitLab, DevCloud uses cloud native tools that provide seamless pipelines for application development, which have, over the last 12 months, shown increased productivity and reduced time to market. Another vital component of the end-to-end developer experience is the Developer Desktop which has been custom built with the community in mind. The flexibility of the build SOME OF THE BEST CLOUD BENEFITS ARE NOT THE ONES YOU WOULD EXPECTBy Paul McEwen, Global Head of Technology Services, UBS (SWX:UBSG)
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