CIO OPINION
Lead from the app
Modern applications will soon outnumber traditional applications and as a result , an organisation ’ s ability to keep pace with this shift is becoming the most important differentiator when it comes to business success . Businesses and their IT teams need to figure out how to take advantage of this innovation without introducing more risk and uncertainty and do so quickly .
In its purest form , cloud is the answer , because it ’ s the de facto way to modernise applications . But in many businesses , the ability to innovate and modernise with cloud is being suffocated by complexity . It ’ s affecting the pace at which they can modernise applications and move them to the cloud and deliver the experiences that end users demand . Not only that , but it ’ s also making the lives of the IT team harder by creating silos of management and security and complexities at the Edge . a modern cloud infrastructure to thousands of other cloud partners . It also ensures operational consistency by delivering unified management and security , which enhances flexibility while also avoiding complexity and preventing cloud lock-in .
Why is this important ? Each cloud provider has their own software toolkits , provisioning portals , management software and monitoring capabilities , all of which work perfectly well within that cloud environment . If you ’ re using one cloud provider , they ’ re simple enough for your IT team to manage . But using one cloud provider for everything isn ’ t feasible anymore . Each cloud has its own unique attributes , and each business will have their own motivations for using them , whether they be technical , economic , geographic or regulatory . That ’ s why Forrester research predicts that companies will be running on average 8.7 public clouds by 2023 .
To unravel this complexity manually would take IT teams too long and be far too expensive , leaving organisations with a decision to make . Many businesses are instead choosing to adopt a multicloud strategy that allows their IT teams to break down the complexity rather than continue to increase it , by affording greater consistency and enhanced flexibility . But how exactly does multi-cloud achieve this ?
The cloud comfort blanket
The hybridity of multi-cloud delivers consistent infrastructure everywhere , that evolves and extends
The existence of these cloud sprawls helps explain why a strategic approach to cloud – one which focuses on
A consistent cloud approach allows IT teams to wrap security , latency and governance policies around a workload so that those policies then exist wherever that workload goes .
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