“ I think there has been a shift over the last few years – from security being seen as a blocker , to now acting as an enabler for the business . But whether it ’ s in the cloud or any other technology , it ’ s more about having the right mindset to always support the business and digital transformation , rather than the specific environment .”
Rexel at the edge of cloudification : Agility and scalability According to Bruno de La Bretèche , Head of Digital Technologies at Rexel , one of the biggest challenges is scaling both IT and the organisation to support Rexel ’ s target for digital sales to reach 40 % of its total revenue by 2025 , all while maintaining agility . “ The point of cloudification is that it ’ s helping us stay and be agile at scale ,” he says .
“ We need to scale our organisation , but also our way of working , while staying super agile . That ’ s the main challenge my team faces today and I ’ d say it ’ s Rexel ’ s main challenge overall .”
The point of cloudification , de La Bretèche explains , is to help Rexel maintain agility at scale .
“ If you want to scale , at some point you have to automate . If you want to keep agile , you have to automate ,” he says . “ The full DevSecOps pipeline model is impossible without automation . Now , you can start doing everything on-premises if you want , and if you have millions of engineers , or you
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