As many businesses continue migrating to Microsoft Azure, the pace of transition can seem slow despite the platform's maturity. This blog explores the key factors influencing migration decisions, such as legacy investments, platform maturity, and strategic conflicts. It also discusses how businesses can overcome these barriers and successfully adopt cloud native solutions.

After a decade of experience building Azure hosting platforms, we have identified three key factors for cloud success: leveraging Azure’s native services, embracing automation, and establishing strong platform foundations. To meet evolving customer needs, we've developed Azure Accelerator Packs, which simplify and speed up cloud deployment while maintaining high-quality results. Read more.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), initiated by the European Union, provides a specialised framework tailored to the financial sector, enforcing strict standards for maintaining digital operational resilience. In the next year or so, FSI businesses will find themselves grappling with the implications of DORA and its impact on their technological processes, policies, controls, and governance. With a keen focus on maintaining resilience amidst the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape, organisations will undergo significant changes, ranging from minor adjustments to substantial overhauls.

Discover the exciting world of AI innovation at BlakYaks as we delve into the realms of Artificial Intelligence and explore the Azure OpenAI service. In this blog, we share our early insights and success with the YakBot OpenAI console, a seamless gateway to the Azure OpenAI service, tailor-made to enhance productivity within our business.

If you are running large-scale cloud infrastructure platforms you should manage them with code throughout their entire life cycle and make sure that these IaC code libraries are integrated into mature DevSecOps processes and CICD pipelines. Some key business benefits of managing with code are platform stability and risk management improvements, speed to market with new services and cost reduction and optimisation.

We are a specialist Azure and cloud-native consultancy & engineering business based in the UK (London), delivering technology services and solutions to larger businesses. As a business, we set out with clarity regarding the technology partnerships and some cloud-native tools that are strategically important to us, and ultimately to many of our customers. Selecting a set of strategic technologies and tools is important because it drives some strategic imperatives for our business.

This blog shares key considerations for organisations (particularly technology infrastructure teams) as they navigate the transition to cloud-native enabling technologies. There is pent-up demand across the industry from application development teams wanting their infrastructure technology colleagues to provide tech tools and services that enable them to build micro-service architectures. These architectures depend on and are enabled by containers, platform-as-a-service and serverless technologies.

Designing and building Azure scaffolds, landing zones and adopting best practice from the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework and extending the platform with enterprise containers requires a number of integrations to be considered to ensure the full eco-system is working as planned.