Canadian Government Executive - Volume 24 - Issue 07

24 / Canadian Government Executive // February/March 2019 Q: Since 2010, your company has been helping large organizations migrate to the cloud. Drawing from your experience, what are some of the challenges, as well as opportunities, in adopting cloud at scale for the public sector? Cloud computing provides numerous benefits to organizations able to adopt it properly. Those benefits include the abil- ity to scale IT infrastructure on demand, eliminating the cost and time required to deploy hardware in a data centre. Cloud By J. Richard Jones and Marcello Sukhdeo Cloud Journey Lessons from Private Sector’s Jonathan Spinks, CEO of Sourced Group INTERVIEW that can be Applied to Government T here’s no doubt that digital transformation is a crucial topic, not just within the public sector but across all industries, particularly highly regulated ones. Many or- ganizations in these industries have begun their digital transformation journey by moving elements of their IT infrastruc- ture and applications to public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. To meet the growing demand for digital services from citizens, governments around the world are devoting considerably more resources to digital transformation. There are many lessons from private industry’s digital transformation journey that can be ap- plied to the various levels of government here in Canada as they increasingly adopt public cloud to deliver IT services. Recently J. Richard Jones, Publisher of Canadian Government Executive, spoke with Jonathan Spinks, CEO of Sourced Group. Sourced Group is a rapidly-growing global consultancy with of- fices in Canada, Australia and Singapore. The company provides consulting services to help migrate enterprise customers to pub- lic cloud providers across a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, aviation, media, telecommunica- tions and public sector agencies. The interview has been edited and condensed from the original.