Whether you agree or not, conventional businesses have become redundant by the advent of technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, IoT and ML. Today, rapidly changing customer needs are forcing enterprises to evolve, adopt and devise strategies where they can surgically strike offers to a segment of few rather than blast a shotgun of offerings to an uninterested many.

A new year is always a good time to check your expenses. One expense that keeps on climbing constantly in many organizations is related to the cloud expenses, expected to expand up to $1 trillion by 2024, according to IDC. While this can be a good thing, indicating the business is scaling and cloud resources are in high demand, there is often a lot of waste coming from inefficient cloud usage, unnecessary SaaS tooling, endless logs, and more.

Experts from Microsoft, WANdisco, and Unravel Data recently outlined a step-by-step playbook—utilizing a data-driven approach—for migrating and managing data applications in the cloud.