Bharat Bedi on digital transformation
From Digital Transformation Insights with Bharat Bedi of SolarWinds at ETBFSI Converge · · ET BFSI
“The core of digital transformation is companies trying to embrace new technology for essentially two reasons: either they're trying to create value for their end customers to create customer stickiness and doing innovations around this area, or they're trying to look at their internal systems and make that faster, better, cheaper for the company's profitability.”
On , Bharat Bedi, Managing Director of Its Asia-Pacific & Japan Operations at SOLARWINDS CORP, spoke about digital transformation during Digital Transformation Insights with Bharat Bedi of SolarWinds at ETBFSI Converge on ET BFSI.
About Bharat Bedi
Bharat Bedi, Managing Director for Asia Pacific & Japan at SolarWinds, discussed digital transformation and enterprise infrastructure in two podcast appearances. In a September 2024 interview at ETBFSI Converge, Bedi stated that digital transformation involves companies embracing new technology to create customer value or improve internal systems. He identified complexity from adopting new technologies as a key challenge, noting that fragmentation between on-premise and cloud infrastructure can slow transformation. Bedi described SolarWinds' approach as consolidating data, metrics, logs, and alerts from a company's entire infrastructure onto a single platform to reduce mean time to detect and resolve issues. In a September 2021 episode of The Guiding Voice podcast, Bedi characterized the public cloud versus on-premise decision as a cost and technology choice, comparing it to using Uber versus owning a car. He said enterprises typically use a hybrid approach combining both models, and that the decision to move to public cloud often originates from finance leaders managing capital versus operating expenditure. Bedi also noted that demand for enterprise IT hardware continues because cloud providers themselves purchase hardware, and he advised those entering the field to focus on fundamentals of compute, network, and storage.