As cloud infrastructure continues to evolve, businesses of all sizes are rethinking their approach to scaling, securing, and modernizing their operations. In a recent episode of our Cloudscapes<\/strong> podcast, hosts Janikka Jokinen, Senior Account Executive, and Teppo Suominen, Team Coach, sat down with Lauri Kainulainen, CTO of Montel Intergalactic<\/a>, to talk about cloud migrations, Kubernetes, and the future of cloud-native infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Subscribe now on Spotify<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, or YouTube<\/a> and be part of our growing community that\u2019s building a smarter, more secure European cloud ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Here are the top three takeaways from the conversation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kainulainen emphasized that nearly every company, regardless of size or industry, will eventually need to migrate to the cloud. While cloud adoption brings obvious benefits like scalability, speed, and cost-efficiency, the process of migrating can be complex \u2014 especially for companies with legacy systems and undocumented infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMigrations are scary because you’re often moving the beating heart of the company. But with the right expertise, it’s entirely manageable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauri Kainulainen, CTO at Montel Intergalactic<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Montel\u2019s approach? Make migrations modern and meaningful \u2014 not just a lift-and-shift, but a true modernization of architecture, tools, and practices. Their advice: don\u2019t fear migration, but don\u2019t go it alone. Lean on partners who understand both the legacy and the modern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the past five years, Kubernetes has transformed from a complex, hard-to-implement tool into a solid, production-grade platform. Montel now exclusively recommends Kubernetes to its customers because of its flexibility, power, and ecosystem maturity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday, the hardest part of setting up Kubernetes on UpCloud is naming the cluster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauri Kainulainen, CTO at Montel Intergalactic<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Thanks to tools and services from providers like UpCloud \u2014 such as managed databases, object storage, and developer-first interfaces \u2014 the infrastructure layer has become easier to manage. The real challenge now lies in designing scalable, stateless workloads and embracing higher-level abstractions that free up development time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As geopolitical uncertainty and cyber threats rise, security and compliance<\/strong> are becoming non-negotiable concerns \u2014 especially for European companies. Kainulainen noted that demand for threat detection, infrastructure reviews, and basic security hygiene (like avoiding exposed databases) is surging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSecurity is no longer a checkbox \u2014 it\u2019s a constant process. And it\u2019s top-of-mind for every customer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauri Kainulainen, CTO at Montel Intergalactic<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n In parallel, AI is rapidly becoming a core part of digital strategies, with customers exploring machine learning use cases that require cloud-native, compute-heavy infrastructure. Montel sees 2025 as the year when AI will deliver real, tangible value to small and medium-sized businesses \u2014 not just proof-of-concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Successful cloud journeys depend on having the right partner. Montel\u2019s collaboration with UpCloud reflects this shared commitment to developer-first tooling, predictable pricing, and European data sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From modernizing monoliths to running high-performance AI workloads, Montel and UpCloud are helping companies reimagine what cloud can do \u2014 securely, scalably, and with less stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo company will win the market just by having the best DevOps team \u2014 but they can absolutely lose it without the right infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauri Kainulainen, CTO at Montel Intergalactic<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Tune in and subscribe now on Spotify<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, or YouTube<\/a> to explore how European businesses are building secure, future-ready cloud solutions \u2014 one conversation at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Key Takeaways from Montel Intergalactic As cloud infrastructure continues to evolve, businesses of all sizes are rethinking their approach to scaling, securing, and modernizing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":57169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"Cloud Migrations","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"586,478,598,352,532,568","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"Blocked by a filter function","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,88,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-stories","category-cloudscapes","category-upcloud-insights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
1. Cloud Migrations Are Inevitable. But They Don\u2019t Have to Be Intimidating<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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2. Kubernetes has matured. It\u2019s changing how we think about infrastructure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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3. Security and AI are the next frontiers in European Cloud strategy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The value of the right partner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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