How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, you can take advantage of multi-cloud strategies for your organization and reap the benefits for years to come. That said, multi-cloud adoption and […]
90% Of Orgs Say Multi-Cloud Helps Achieve Business Goals
Multi-cloud is the new normal. And thankfully, this new normal isn’t just happenstance—it’s driving positive outcomes. New findings show that most organizations benefit from using multiple cloud providers. Multi-cloud adoptions are helping achieve business goals, such as improving reliability and scalability and increasing overall security and governance. However, nearly all organizations (94%) admitted that they […]
Overcoming Multi-Cloud Management Challenges
We’ve long talked about how the cloud is the future. But with the vast majority of corporate data now stored in the cloud, it’s clear that most businesses now realize this is a must-have in today’s increasingly demanding and agile business environment. The cloud has been the backbone of the remote restructuring of the workplace […]
Three Key Steps To Going Multi-Cloud
Are you considering a multi-cloud strategy for your organization? Getting this sequence of foundational steps right can make a huge difference, both economically and performance-wise. FinOps or a cloud resource optimization solution like Archera, for example, is often brought into the picture after a company has already embarked on a multi-cloud approach and is knee-deep […]
Why DevSecOps Should Be Top Priority
DevOps culture and process are integral to maintaining the pace of cloud-native software development for organizations, especially when code deployments might take place many times a day. The ability to instantly create, populate and scale cloud applications and infrastructure, often automated through code, allows enormous agility and incredible speed. But moving this quickly means security […]
Survey Surfaces Multi-Cloud Computing and Cost Challenges
A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they are required to deploy and master does, too. The survey, published this week by Virtana, a provider of a platform for managing cloud […]
CloudBolt Adds Modular Automation Framework to Tame Hybrid Clouds
CloudBolt Software this week added a framework consisting of eight modules that collectively make it simpler to automate, optimize and govern hybrid cloud computing environments. Jeff Kukowski, CloudBolt CEO, said the goal is to provide IT teams with a more modular approach to managing multiple clouds that they can employ as they gain additional expertise. […]
Defining the Next Cycle of Technology
We’re in the middle of what we at ScyllaDB dubbed The Next Tech Cycle. Not “The World of Tomorrow” nor “The Shape of Things to Come” nor “The Wave of the Future”—because it’s already here today. We’re right in the middle of it. It’s a wave that’s carrying us forward, but it began with trends […]
Tackling the Complexities of Multi-Cloud With a New IT Model
The pandemic put incredible pressure on organizations to modernize and accelerate digital transformation efforts, with many businesses rushing to embrace cloud strategies in response. According to this year’s Enterprise Cloud Index from Nutanix, multi-cloud—an IT operating model that combines multiple clouds, public or private—is the most commonly deployed IT environment and the only IT model […]
The Future of Cloud Strategy: Multi-Cloud
As Gartner’s Milind Govekar recently said, “There is no business strategy without a cloud strategy.” But in 2021, some of the world’s biggest brands suffered disruptions in their services due to outages from their cloud service providers, including Google, Slack, Venmo, Disney+, Facebook/Meta, Tinder, iRobot, The Washington Post and Sony. While the outages do not negate the […]
Designing Your DevOps Ecosystem for Multi-Cloud
As companies grow and expand to become global enterprises, IT infrastructure inevitably becomes more complex. When it comes to cloud computing, that usually means maintaining multiple clouds. There are many reasons for using different cloud service providers (CSPs)—some by choice and others by mandate. For instance, a large enterprise with operations around the world may […]
Survey Surfaces Observability Challenges in the Cloud Era
A recent cloud observability survey found nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents reported the adoption of public clouds has made it more difficult to achieve observability. Nearly half of respondents (48%) said they now consider providing real-time insights into application/infrastructure environments to be a top priority. The survey polled 357 IT professionals and was conducted by […]
Multi-Cloud Computing is a Major IT Headache
A CloudBolt Software survey of 500 senior IT, DevOps, security and finance leaders found 79% are struggling under the weight of managing multiple cloud computing environments. The survey from CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, found specifically that more than three-quarters of respondents (78%) said they have too many cloud tools throughout […]
Enable Multi-Cloud Networking With Automation
As we enter a new era of technology, we’re experiencing a “third wave” of cloud innovation that brings new complexities into the IT landscape, mainly centered around multi-cloud networking. With every wave of cloud technology advancement, networking components are becoming more complex and distributed across multiple groups. Further, multi-cloud networking brings new challenges around connecting […]
Newly Independent VMware to Focus on Multi-Cloud
As an independent company once again, VMware will focus its efforts on providing management planes that span multiple cloud computing environments after officially spinning out of Dell Technologies. Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president for the cloud-native apps business unit at VMware, said the company now has a unique opportunity to work closely with providers of […]
The Inevitability of Multi-Cloud-Native Apps
We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they learned about automation, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Now, even though most enterprises are still figuring out how to do cloud-native at scale, there’s […]
4 Tips To Plug The Cloud IT Skills Gap
Technical talent is few and far between. The programming world faces a developer shortage, and with this shortage comes a lack of cloud know-how. By now, most organizations have become multi-cloud, yet 86% of IT professionals believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects. As more teams transition from older architectures to […]
Majority of Organizations Now Adopt Multi-Cloud
As IT’s digital footprint grows, its cloud footprint is rising both in size and complexity. As a result, most organizations have matured into multi-cloud operators. A multi-cloud approach empowers different divisions with the autonomy to select the right computing environment for their needs. It also enables a lift-and-shift ability to port workloads across cloud service […]
Establishing Trust in Multi-Cloud Environments
Modern applications are transforming enterprises into digital innovation factories. However, the distributed nature and complexity of modern apps have made it extremely difficult for organizations to maintain trust and compliance across multi-platform, multi-cloud environments. Although Kubernetes is the standard for application platforms today, each cloud service provider (CSP) has a different offering for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) […]
Multi-Cloud Is Not About Lift and Shift
Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different service provider. Cloud migration may make sense for cost savings or performance benefits and such a shift may be necessary when migrating on-premises […]
How to Know if You Need Multi-Cloud — and Succeed if You Do
There are many good reasons for running in multiple clouds, as well as times when multi-cloud environments are unavoidable due to organizational history or legal reasons. However, operating in multiple clouds adds complexity, increases operational overhead and can become expensive. Organizations should only pursue it when they have clear business reasons for doing so. In […]
From ‘Cloud Zombies’ to Multi-Cloud Experts
A significant risk associated with cloud migration is overspending. For years, zombie-like obedience to AWS has resulted in price lock and escalating fees at many organizations – this is a tale for fighting the cloud zombies. Cloud costs around data egress or application bandwidth are often not transparent and thus highly unpredictable. Complicating this problem […]
Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization For The Enterprise
Multi-cloud is an increasingly popular approach for deploying enterprise computing assets. But, in the same vein, managing cloud costs has become a huge challenge. Whilst public cloud continues to grow in popularity, there are many factors that can increase a cloud bill that needs to be taken into consideration. A smart cloud cost management strategy […]