Debunking the top 3 myths around multi-cloud computing – Times of India

As organizations harness digital technologies to reimagine both customer and employee experiences, theres been an exponential rise in the adoption of a multi-cloud strategy. Recent years have seen cloud computing gaining almost universal adoption. In fact, by 2025, the Indian public cloud services market is expected to reach $10.8 billion and is growing at a CAGR from 24.1% for 2020-25 .

While multi-cloud delivers greater efficiency, agility and scalability to organizations, it can come with certain trade-offs for businesses. Given the increasing dominance of cloud solutions in modern workplaces, unfortunately several half-truths and misconceptions about multi-cloud have been widely accepted. Here are a few myths surrounding multi-cloud that need to be debunked:

Myth 1. Most enterprises rely on one cloud providerNot really, but know why you need a multi-cloud approach

Enterprises have realized that relying on a single cloud infrastructure provider for all their applications and workloads is not the right strategy. As per a research on public cloud users, 81% of enterprises said they are working with two or more providers.Most enterprises have diversified their multi-cloud strategy to utilize the best-of-breed solutions. Having a choice of multi-cloud providers is best opted for meeting business needs. The research also suggests that enterprise buyers choose multiple cloud providers for hybrid deployment and another cloud provider for managing workloads to avoid limitations.

Large organizations are turning to create a multi-cloud strategy to enhance agility and reduce vendor lock-in, cost and flexibility. With cloud infrastructure evolving rapidly, its not a wise step to depend on a single cloud provider. Adopting a multi-cloud approach that prioritizes application development and workloads, where each works best, allows you to optimize with the speed, agility and security you need.

Myth 2. Multi-cloud is expensiveOr is it a cost-effective solution to help you reap more benefits?

A study revealed that 53% of users said multi-cloud has helped them achieve their business goals.When fully optimized, multi-cloud architectures can help businesses accelerate service delivery while reducing costs and business risk. Companies can deliver transformational apps more quickly to customers and employees, thereby strengthening their competitive positions.

Organizations with multi-cloud architectures have:

Myth 3. Multi-cloud complexity outweighs its benefitsCan visibility across clouds simplify operations?

Multi-cloud architectures are complex today and the complexity is likely to increase in the future as companies deploy more workloads to the cloud, sometimes spread across multiple clouds. There will be new cloud offerings from 5G telco providers, more clouds in edge locations, and an increased focus on security and spend. One significant limitation of managing multiple clouds is that the toolsets that providers offer typically can only function within their own cloud. This requires multiple teams to manage individual clouds in parallel, reducing efficiency and increasing cost and complexity.

Consistency with visibility across clouds at infrastructure and management level can overcome these complexities and can turn into an opportunity. It can help enterprises gain a competitive advantage in todays evolving economy while enabling organizations to map out well-crafted strategies and innovate at speed. Its no wonder, that 91% of executives want to improve consistency across their public cloud environments. According to IDC, around 30% of Indian enterprises will deploy unified Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud management processes and tools to support robust multi-cloud management and governance across on-premises and public clouds.

Views expressed above are the author's own.

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