A multi cloud solution is a cloud computing solution that may be used with the cloud infrastructures of many cloud providers. All public cloud providers offer open-source, cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, which provide the foundation for multi cloud solutions. Additionally, they frequently provide the ability to manage workloads across many clouds from a single console (sometimes known as a “single pane of glass”). For compute infrastructure, development, data warehousing, cloud storage, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), disaster recovery/business continuity, and more, many of the top cloud providers as well as cloud solution providers like VMware provide multi cloud solutions. In this article, newlifedn.com will discuss 4 value and benefits of multi cloud solutions.
Value and benefits of multi cloud solutions
The main benefit of multi cloud for businesses is that it avoids “vendor lock-in,” performance issues, fewer options, or irrational expenses brought on by employing just one cloud vendor. A multi cloud strategy provides businesses with:
- The freedom to select cloud services from several cloud providers depending on a combination of pricing, performance, security, and compliance needs, as well as the business-friendly location.
- Having the ability to quickly embrace “best-of-breed” technologies from any vendor, as required or as they emerge, as opposed to restricting customers to whatever features or functionality a single vendor offers at a given moment
- Reduced susceptibility to outages and unplanned downtime since services provided by other clouds may still function even while one cloud is down.
- reduced risk of independent “shadow IT” users signing up for cloud services that a business using just one cloud might not offer in terms of license, security, compatibility, and other factors
Multi cloud management
The secret to exploiting the advantages of a multi cloud architecture is to centrally manage resources and apps across the many clouds as if they were a single cloud. However, managing many clouds has a number of difficulties, including:
- Preserving uniform cloud security and compliance standards across many platforms
- Application deployment across target environments (such as development, staging, and production) and different hosting platforms with consistency
- Combining and displaying information from monitoring and logging systems to provide a single view and set up uniform responses
To monitor and manage their multi cloud deployments as if they were a single cloud environment, organizations employ multi cloud management tools, or better yet, a multi cloud management platform. Most of the top multi cloud management platforms provide:
- Any cloud resource, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings, as well as the related data storage and networking resources across public cloud, private cloud, and edge installations, can be seen and controlled.
- Skills in analytics or artificial intelligence (AI), especially AIOps (artificial intelligence for operations). AIOps combines AI and machine learning to sort through the “noise” of data in search of measurements, or telemetry, that the business may use to automate corrective actions across the multicloud infrastructure, predict availability or performance issues, and streamline operations.
Multi cloud solutions, hybrid cloud and hybrid multi cloud
With administration, orchestration, and mobility between public and private cloud environments, hybrid cloud enables a business to use both as a single, unified, and efficient IT infrastructure.
It’s not necessary for hybrid cloud and multi cloud to coexist. Actually, because they combine public or private cloud services from at least two separate cloud service providers, the bulk of hybrid enterprise clouds are hybrid multi clouds solutions.
Hybrid multi cloud expands on the advantages of multi cloud with:
- Improved developer productivity: Agile and DevOps development techniques, as well as cloud-native application technologies like serverless computing, containers, and microservices architecture, enable hybrid multi cloud.
- Enhanced security and regulatory compliance: Hybrid multi cloud enables the simplicity of implementing security and compliance consistently across all cloud services, cloud suppliers, and cloud environments, as well as the flexibility to deploy and scale sensitive data or highly regulated workloads in the most secure and compliant methods. Broad access to cutting-edge security and compliance solutions is provided by multi cloud.
- Greater efficiency and spend optimization: Hybrid multi cloud offers the most granular control over where workloads are deployed and scaled, enabling enterprises to further improve performance (e.g., deploy closer to customers to reduce latency) and optimize spend. This is in addition to the flexibility to choose the most cost-effective cloud provider. Hybrid cloud enables businesses to connect cloud services to data on cloud or on-premises infrastructure in ways that generate new value, as well as upgrade old applications more quickly.
