Many of you are already working in multicloud environments -a combination of public and private clouds (i.e., AWS, Azure, Google, and on-premise IT). In fact, IDC found that 84% of IT executives surveyed expect to use multiple clouds from multiple cloud providers. Organizations are pursuing multicloud for a variety of reasons including increasing revenue, reducing costs, decreasing time to market, or simplifying IT infrastructure. While a mulitcloud approach can deliver tremendous benefits, it can also create complexity, exposing a gap between the business need for digitization and what IT can reliably and confidently support.
This growing complexity has less to do with the value of the individual services and more to do with how to efficiently and effectively manage, secure, deliver, and gain insights across all the cloud services you use. However, there is little to no connective tissue between these vendor-specific clouds; each having their own tools, APIs, configuration requirements, SLAs, analytics, and more. Taking this complexity into account will be critical to connecting the dots when it comes to your cloud strategy and doing more with cloud.
Here are a few questions to ask yourself as you refine your cloud strategy for the complexities of multicloud:
The complexity gap is not going away; it will continue to grow. Making sure your cloud strategy is designed for a multicloud world will help you capitalize on the ever-growing business and digital requirements transformation impacting every industry. What are you doing to address the complexities of multicloud?
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