And in so many cases, it’s not pure ROI and cost savings but it’s removing hidden costs and shared costs of managing technical debt, like not having to do upgrades. “I call it cloud density in the right way,” Karaboutis adds. Not all data will be migrated off premises - just the data that makes sense running in the cloud, she says. “We’re very mature in our data architecture and what we want. “These capabilities allow us to reduce business risk as we move off of our monolithic, on-premise environments and provide cloud resiliency and scale,” the CIO says, noting National Grid also has a major data center consolidation under way as it moves more data to the cloud.
Next, Karaboutis says, National Grid will be migrating field-force data to the cloud from its fleet of 7,000 workers in the field serving consumers and businesses.
The utility is about one third of the way through its cloud transition and is focused on moving customer data and workforce data to the cloud first to reap the most business value.
