2020 saw growth in investment in cloud infrastructure as it overtook on-prem spending for the first time. It also saw the rising appeal of a multi-cloud strategy as adoption grew 70% year-on-year, perhaps driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the desire to make resources available for an ever-more distributed workforce.
A multi-cloud environment refers to placing applications and workloads with more than one public cloud service provider (CSP) rather than leveraging private (either on-prem or in a co-location structure) and public cloud facilities – known as the hybrid cloud.
Enterprises choose to distribute their applications and workloads among multiple CSPs for a number of reasons:
While a multi-cloud structure sounds appealing, you should be aware of all the pitfalls that you will have to navigate if you choose to adopt this strategy. There are challenges associated with any data center move and migration to the cloud adds even greater complexity.
It’s going to take a lot of time of multiple team members to get up to speed on managing resources across a hybrid private and public cloud so moving to a multi-cloud environment could stretch resources to the breaking point.
IT infrastructure teams traditionally rely on manual processes to manage their IT environment. This means that most don’t have a clear view of all their users, infrastructure, systems and applications or the interactions and dependencies between them, at any given time across their on-prem infrastructure. Optimizing workloads between on-prem and the public cloud adds complexity, and a multi-cloud structure massively increases that complexity!
The reason? It takes time for teams to manually pull reports from multiple systems, tools and databases and combine them into a single view. By the time it’s complete, the information is already out of date. And it’s more than likely going to contain errors! To make informed decisions, teams need to collect and analyze this information constantly, and most IT organizations simply don’t have the time, resources or budget to do this.
In order to simplify this process, enterprises need to find a way to leverage common tools that allow them to easily see and manage workloads across any cloud environment. And there is a way to do this – and that involves cutting out the manual processes.
Leveraging ReadyWorks you could slash 50% or more manual repetitive tasks associated with placing and managing workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. ReadyWorks does this by:
Schedule a demo to understand how ReadyWorks can eliminate the risks and cut the time of your migration to a multi-cloud environment by 30% or more.