Cyber Magazine January 2023 | Page 78

Year Founded

landing zones in Azure in Netherlands and Chicago in 2021 . That year saw us onboarding Nordcloud as the Managed Services Provider for the steady state operations of all our cloud assets . This meant that , for the first time , we had round-the-clock support coverage for this critical foundational service .

“ In a massive , complex undertaking in 2022 , we migrated the last set of applications and all the infrastructure services out of the data centres , making Syngenta a 100 % cloud operation . This was really the proudest moment for our infrastructure and security teams . Everyone banded together to unwind the decades ' worth of legacy – and often undocumented , on-prem solutions – and set up fit-for-purpose , cloud-ready alternatives ".

In a cloud-first organisation , how does the wider business successfully engage , communicate and share best practices on cloud policy and IT infrastructure ?

“ In the cloud organisation we have a competency called Cloud Business Partners ( CBPs ),” Iyer says . “ Their primary goal is to engage with all our stakeholders and understand their vision and strategy , so that we in Cloud Services can organise to better support them and help them meet their goals . The CBPs also drive the cloud initiatives and priorities with teams across geographies and functions .

“ Apart from that , we have the architecture , engineering and automation units that provide additional capabilities , services and competencies to support our customer base . We also empower our customers by providing a guided experience on our self-service platform for provisioning all their cloud assets , supported by guidance on cloud-native design patterns and best practices . All this helps make sure that

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