The Cloud Council for Financial Services continues its work to assess the acceleration of cloud in Asia/Pacific banking and insurance, with a focus on the real-world benefits of standardization in hybrid cloud deployments.

As part of the goal in this continued roundtable seriesto help organizations progress in their cloud journey for more secure, scalable, resilient and available IT services, IDCtook a closer look at cloud standardization tools, capabilities, and services,to ensure that workloads are primed for different cloud environments.

Four key takeawaysstand out in terms of what industry cloud leaders and their roundtable peers view are driving greater cloud standardization efforts:

• Standardization assures intended outcomes for cloud services
  from various cloud environments.
• Organizing standardization effortsin the use of a technology
  stack helps accelerate the cloud journey as it brings multiple
  layers of tools, capabilities and services,for infrastructure as a
  service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a
  service (SaaS).
• Standardization goals are to support real-time connectivity,
  data, and workflows while ensuring that the standards are
  inclusive of cloud architecture, security, governance, and
  performance.
• It is about reducing the IT operational burden in managing
  hybrid cloud.