Kevin Staples, BBD Group CEO, was featured on a panel at the MyBroadband Cloud & Security Conference 2023.<\/p>\n
Staples started his career at BBD during his final year of university and has grown with the company ever since.<\/p>\n
He has served on the BBD executive committee for over a decade and has enjoyed a variety of other leadership roles within the business, too.<\/p>\n
This includes heading up several strategic system development projects, which reinforced his passion for creating synergy between businesses and technology.<\/p>\n
Staples is an advocate of diversity and inclusion and has a deep understanding and respect for BBD\u2019s employees \u2013 who he believes set the company apart.<\/p>\n
On the panel, Staples explained how the cloud has completely transformed the development and provision of excellent software solutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cCloud has provided the perfect infrastructure for our bespoke software,\u201d said Staples.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the cloud is technically still hardware \u2014 in practice, it functions more like software, which brings huge opportunities for bespoke software development companies like BBD to increase efficiency and expand into new services.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also noted that the cloud has made it far easier for businesses like BBD to deliver high-quality software solutions and systems at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith one of our cloud transactional banking systems, the cost of using the cloud was just $6,000 per month, whereas investing in on-premise infrastructure would have cost millions of dollars,\u201d said Staples.<\/p>\n
He added that there were many other types of cloud savings, too \u2014 such as not needing to employ teams to manage databases.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are so many benefits to the cloud, and not all of them are easily quantifiable \u2014 but there is no question that it is the way of the future,\u201d said Staples.<\/p>\n
One element of the cloud that Staples highlighted as particularly useful when designing software solutions is the ability to dynamically adjust the resources allocated to each one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found on Black Friday, for example, that our load profiles would spike to up to 10 times usual volumes,\u201d said Staples.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was difficult to manage on-prem, but with the cloud, our system simply scales up for the day and then scales down afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
This flexibility frees up time engineers would spend solving problems and instead allows them to focus on tasks that generate tangible business value.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe benefits of the cloud are undeniable when it comes to software development \u2013 from cheaper costs and increased flexibility to the ability to spin up test environments on the fly,\u201d said Staples.<\/p>\n