A multi-cloud approach can enhance scalability and reach
Businesses today are demanding more from their cloud environment. They want IT, Security, and Development all working in harmony. With the rise of the hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures, companies are increasingly relying on multiple cloud services to run their applications. But managing and orchestrating multiple cloud services and customizing applications to work with these cloud services is complex. More often than not, organizations struggle with these challenges and have to reimagine their multi-cloud strategies. This blog will take a look at how businesses are utilizing the power of hybrid & multi-cloud environments and how it can help your business achieve more.
Why is hybrid-multi cloud important in modernizing your organization?
When digital native businesses begin their modernization journey, they generally begin with a single cloud service provider. With vendor blocks in their own cloud, and better costs and offers with other cloud service providers, businesses recognized the need to make their assets as cloud-agnostic as possible, and to leverage a multi-cloud approach for their operations.
With enterprises that begin their modernization journey from on-premise to the cloud, the networks, the servers and the VMs are all variable components. This often leads them to begin exploring a hybrid approach to their modernization journey, combining on-premise with cloud, gaining the best of both worlds.
With the advent of the pandemic, the flexibility and the ease of having a hybrid or a multicloud approach is felt now more than ever.[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]As organizations continue working remotely, organizations are identifying the need to adopt cloud services, and as well as cloud-agnostic services as the way forward.[/box]
Challenges with hybrid and multi-cloud approach
- The ease and cost-effectiveness of spinning up a cloud environment has created a sprawl of environment clusters across business operations. Maintaining consistency of applications across different environments and managing them from different portals then becomes a challenge for developers.
- Maintaining observability of the applications across different cloud service providers with their own set of tools and processes is another challenge for devops teams. Being able to assess the application from different cloud environments becomes a challenge to tackle in a multi-cloud or hybrid environment.
- The DevOps teams who are meant to be maintaining, managing and securing the applications, instead find themselves involved in managing the clouds and the different processes within the environments, making it a difficult and cumbersome process for those who are not well versed in multi cloud operations.
Enterprises that expand their landscape to either hybrid or multi-cloud environments, primarily look for better networking, storage and compute requirements, with a single management platform and consistent behavior from the applications hosted across the different environments. This makes a simplified management utility, a consistent journey across platforms, and a user-friendly application modernization plan, the need of the hour to address these challenges.
With hybrid management platforms, developers can select and deploy applications for on-premises and for cloud separately. BFSI and Healthcare enterprises, for example, may host their data and their KYC applications on-premise, while leveraging AI capabilities of cloud to improve customer services. A unified management utility helps to manage both the data hosted on-premise as well as the AI service provided by the cloud. For enterprises that opt for a multi-cloud approach, a single UI that lets them see all clusters, workloads, service mesh and more, all from a single point of view is key to easier management.
A multi cloud or hybrid approach avoids vendor lock-ins, letting you run applications on public cloud, that are still ported in to on-premise or any other cloud, as per your choice. It lets you have flexibility to modernize on the platforms of your choice, while ensuring agility and portability between different environments.
[author title=”” image=”http://”]Niveus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a boot-strapped cloud engineering services organization founded in 2013. The company now operates in multiple cities including Mangaluru, Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, and Singapore, providing award-winning Google Cloud services. Niveus leverages cloud technologies to help enterprises with GCP services such as cloud consulting. [/author]
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