2. Translation technology infrastructure The cloud seems to be the destiny of almost every application, and so it is for translation. But how do we cope with the issues. Moving to the cloud: the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls Does translation technology serve the translation industry or solve real business issues Panelists: Brendan McGuinness (Oracle), Eric Blassin (Lionbridge), Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde)

1. Moving to the Cloud
Eric Blassin

2. Moving to the cloud - Challenges
• Architecture
• Generally re-architecture or even build from scratch necessary for full benefit
• Performance and service levels
• Complexity in maintaining service levels
• (Near) Real-time apps on public clouds can be challenging
• Countries with lower local infrastructure performance
• Meeting specific security requirements can be difficult
• Especially around Data location, local regulations, growing political tensions/mistrust, specific
verticals sentivity
• Risk management is even more critical because of concentration
• Security, availability etc.
• Often best approach is hybrid (private/public/on premises) making it even more
complex
• For instance, authentication, ID mgt and federations etc..

3. Moving to the cloud - Opportunities
• Most economical value
• Better sharing of resources, lower cost of deployments, etc.
• Best architecture for leveraging the value of agile development I enterprise apps
• Continuous development, continuous deployment
• Easier to scale if properly architected, virtually unlimited resources
• Low barrier of entry with use of public clouds, no capex investments, no IT, etc.
• Can greatly simplify integrations and connectivity (Cloud to Cloud, open APIs)
• Unleash value of the scale
• Standardization
• Centralization, consolidation
• Boost sharing
• Big data

4. Moving to the cloud – Pitfalls
• Architecture and performance
• Scalable cloud doesn’t mean applications scale
• Reliability: Higher concentration means higher risks
• Necessity of strong infrastructure, DR, Business Continuity plans, Security etc.
• Location of data and data flows not always clear (security, data
privacy, regulation compliance etc.)

5. Translation Technology solve real business
problems
• Continuous, Agile, and Immediacy are the new norm
• Agile development & Continuous publishing -> Agile and Continuous
localization
• Content is moving to platforms
• Translation is a major hurdle in global conversations and processes
• Sentiment analysis, market research, surveys, Social media monitoring etc.
• Content and user generated content is growing
• Continuous economical pressure increase
• More languages, adding transaction complexity
• Growing importance of time to market in some verticals
Could we really do without technology ??