The outcomes of cloud adoption are formed dramatically by the folks and cultures that function and innovate with the know-how. The fast tempo of technological developments we’re seeing on a worldwide scale is thrilling, but when there’s one factor that I like greater than know-how, it’s the folks, the tales, and the life experiences that affect the way it’s used. These tales present firsthand how know-how and custom mix to type cloud cultures. In our first episode, we explored how the folks in Poland are fearless when it comes time to behave. They’re a dynamic nation embracing change, reinventing themselves, and creating new modern alternatives. Conversations with our clients and group leaders in Poland gave me an vital view of how a lot of an affect the historical past of Poland has on the current and future markets. Within the second episode, see what I realized about cloud tradition in Sweden.

Sweden: A world-first mindset

Our first Sweden datacenter area launched in 2021 and can develop to be one in every of our largest datacenter areas in Europe. My time in Sweden helped me perceive why this area is rising so quick.

I realized firsthand how Swedes rework easy concepts into world successes. For Sweden, success is aware of no borders. It is a place that thinks past its personal perimeter, as a result of the market calls for it, and success is dependent upon it. Regardless of being one of many largest international locations in Europe by landmass, it’s one of many smallest in inhabitants—which forces Sweden’s formidable entrepreneurs to undertake a global-first mindset from day one. Collaborating with folks around the globe with totally different mindsets is likely one of the greatest challenges firms will face as they globally scale. It requires tapping into these various views to create a greater final result. That is what drew me to Sweden. Their holistic strategy to innovation has created an atmosphere that fosters collaboration when scaling and allows them to thrive.

This deal with collaboration helped me higher perceive “fika”. Whereas the time period “fika” interprets to “espresso”, in English, I realized in Sweden, fika is rather more than that. Fika is an expertise that does contain espresso and cookies however is extra concerning the dialog and connection. It actually focuses on the human energy of collaboration. This concept of fika is woven into Sweden’s tradition of innovation. It turns into clear that when shared beliefs underpin collaboration, the affect could be extraordinary.

Our conversations with clients and companions helped me see how the highly effective winds of innovation which have converged with native customs, values, and methods of dwelling, helped create one thing distinctive.

How are Swedish clients utilizing the cloud

These conversations helped uncover the essence of Sweden’s digital transformation whereas exploring the nation’s dynamic know-how panorama. Under are just some of the Swedish clients who’re reworking their companies to adapt to the rising wants of their clients in Sweden, and past:

• Storekey is a Stockholm-based startup that’s serving to retail companies flourish and meet the calls for of an ever-evolving trade. Storekey helps retailers by eradicating friction for the customers and the retailers by means of an autonomous know-how platform and the advantages of e-commerce to bodily shops.
• Handelsbanken is one in every of Sweden’s prime banks, which offers common banking companies by means of a nationwide department of networks in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK, and is constructed on a robust emotional bond with their clients. They realized utilizing cloud companies is one thing that elevated their functionality for innovation, improved worker experiences, and created higher interactions with their clients. This adoption of the newest cloud know-how has helped Handelsbanken innovate, in a trusted approach, in collaboration with their clients.
• Swedbank is a multinational financial institution, primarily based in Stockholm, who noticed the pliability and scalability of the cloud as a method to innovate through the use of AI and machine studying to boost safety measures to guard in opposition to prison actions resembling financial institution fraud.

Constructing a sustainable future

On my journey in Sweden, I sat down with Annika Ramsköld, the Chief Sustainability Workplace at Vattenfall, an power firm who’s making waves with their dedication towards a fossil free future. Sustainability isn’t a stylish buzzword in Sweden, it’s elementary for Swedish organizations and their companions, and Vattenfall could be very centered on holding their suppliers and companions, resembling Microsoft, to their identical sustainability necessities.

“It’s our objective. All the things we do, we wish to assist the complete society to be fossil free. Meaning each little piece of the availability chain, whether or not it’s transport, or the best way you extract supplies, or the best way you produce that materials, ought to be fossil free and be completed in a accountable approach.”— Annika Ramsköld

I couldn’t agree extra with Annika, as our personal company commitments to be carbon damaging, water optimistic, with zero waste, are echoing related commitments by Vattenfall. Our partnership with Vattenfall has helped us make our Sweden Central datacenter area one in every of our most sustainable areas globally, and an instance of how a partnership with a typical imaginative and prescient will help us deliver a provide of sustainable companies to our clients.

The attain of cloud know-how

Know-how doesn’t outline folks and tradition however as a substitute tradition defines know-how and the way we use it. I realized in Sweden, their strategy to collaboration, their strategy to the fika, has formed their utilization of know-how, bringing Swedish innovation to the complete world. I can’t look ahead to my subsequent journey to study much more.

Watch the Cloud Cultures: Sweden episode right now.