The Recipe For Multi-Cloud Success Starts With The Best Ingredients And A Master Che
CIO, Wednesday, July 26,2023
Technology sprawl is not a new problem, but the cloud has added a new layer of complexity to its challenges. As organisations have sought new solutions to their challenges, they have embraced hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, only to find they have added cost and complexity to their environments.
Multi-cloud by accident is the new reality and this has resulted in data and infrastructure duplication. As well as being costly, it adds risk to organisations. Each time data is copied to a new service, it creates a new honeypot for threat actors and new silo that needs to be navigated by business users. And there's a need to acquire new skills - an increasingly scarce commodity.
Businesses need to ask how they can create a cost effective, consistent experience in a multi-cloud world where digital transformation projects and other applications modernisation projects are driving a shift towards containerised platforms. Sitting behind this question might be the need to re-platform or redevelop a legacy application or a software vendor that has upgraded a critical application and now requires a containerised platform.