Multi-cloud delivers a rich mix of benefits that enterprises to adopt the model is unstoppable, cost reduction and convenience. As user confidence grows with positive experiences, cloud services will become the norm.
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Top 7 value propositions of a Multi Cloud strategy
1. Top 7 Value Propositions Of A Multi-Cloud Strategy
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2. Enterprises need to take advantage of the choice and flexibility of multiple
cloud offerings in order to maximize the benefits of each while achieving
satisfactory cost reduction benefits. The growing popularity and
competitive market of cloud offerings means that cloud services providers
(CSPs) increasingly differentiate by specialization – not just on the three
core services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) but also by industry. A good example is
Financial Services, which is highly regulated, geographically sensitive for
data residency, and presents a unique set of requirements. There are also
other specialist services such as DBaaS – database as a service, BPaaS –
business process as a service, MBaaS – mobile backend as a service, and so
on.
The big challenge for CIOs and CTOs is getting the mix of multiple private
and public cloud environments right and integrating the selected services
into their existing IT systems and infrastructure. Managing this disparate
outsourced portfolio of services is not easy but the rewards are clear and
measurable for those who master the complexity. The end game is lower
cost of ownership and maintenance, better applications and disaster
recovery, and very scalable computing capability that adds valuable agility
to the enterprise.
3. What is Multi Cloud
The solution to leveraging and optimizing the range of cloud services on offer
is to pick and choose several of cloud solutions based on the business and
technology requirements of your organization. You could call it portfolio
computing. For example, you could deploy your CRM applications and your
customer data to Salesforce, and your web site, custom online applications and
related SQL databases to Azure. The solution should be architected such that
critical system integrations can be implemented to make data available across
applications as required.
Multi-cloud refers to an IT environment that is deployed across multiple clouds
such as AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Google or OpenStack for multiple applications.
It can also encompass private clouds and even your own data center. The
difference between multi-cloud and hybrid cloud is that a hybrid cloud refers
to a single application that utilizes multiple cloud platforms.
4. Multi-cloud strategy
Organizations are discovering that cloud adoption is frequently driven by users.
One department subscribes to an AWS service, sales division deploys to
Salesforce, IT developers may acquire VMs on Azure and so on. Before long, the
enterprise has adopted a multi-cloud approach on an unplanned and
uncontrolled basis. It is time to develop and implement a coherent and proactive
multi-cloud strategy.
A multi-cloud strategy can transform an enterprise’s capabilities as well as
contribute to the bottom line. Management is vital for successful
implementation. A strategy needs to consider and implement guidelines and
governance for many elements. Chief amongst them are suitability for specific
purpose, cost optimization, preventing vendor lock-in, data residency and
locality, integration capability, Dev/Ops productivity, compliance and security. It
also needs to consider APIs, migration and portability of the proposed service.
Parts of the strategy relate to selecting CSPs and the governance elements come
into play once deployment is being planned even before service commences.
5. Value Propositions of a Multi-Cloud approach
1. Improved availability and performance. Low latency
2. Cost optimization
7. Value Propositions of a Multi-Cloud approach
5. Manageability
6. Business-driven IT strategies
8. Value Propositions of a Multi-Cloud approach
7. Risk mitigation and Security
Multi-cloud delivers very worthwhile risk mitigation, from easier and faster disaster recovery to
affordable redundancy and fewer single points of failure. Diversification of services across multiple
vendors is classic risk mitigation against downtime, application outages and data loss.
Multi-cloud would appear to present an even greater number of attack surface for hostiles.
However, CSPs live and die by their reputation and hardened security is high on the list of
requirements to stay in business. CSPs probably deploy more stringent perimeter security than
many enterprises do. Your strategy should also be able to provision hardened images across clouds
that comply with your security and regulatory compliance policies. Multi-cloud security presents
new challenges, certainly, but the industry is very aware of perceptions in this regard and works to
allay fears through extending the perimeter across multiple clouds and multiple services.
In conclusion, multi-cloud delivers such a rich mix of benefits that the trend for enterprises to adopt
the model is unstoppable, fed in the main by the mix of features, cost reduction and sheer
convenience. The range of service offerings will continue to grow, driven by diversification into niche
markets. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that in-premises data centers may become a thing
of the past over the next decade, even for sensitive commercial applications. As user confidence
grows based on a series of positive experiences, the appetite of enterprises to consume ever more
cloud services will become more evident and become the norm rather than a trend.
