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In this month’s Knowledge Exchange, we evaluate the growing trend of enterprise and mid-market companies to migrate to cloud computing and examine the advantages and potential disadvantages of adopting a hybrid cloud strategy and what is needed to manage the process.
Data visibility and management across multiple environments is one of the biggest headaches for enterprises that have or are in the process of migrating to hybrid, multicloud computing environments, according to recent research from cloud specialist, Nutanix. It found in its global Enterprise Cloud Index, survey of 1,450 IT Decision makers (ITDMs) that
the ‘majority’ of IT teams surveyed were: “Leveraging more than one IT infrastructure…but struggle with visibility of data across environments with only 40% reporting complete visibility into where their data resides.” Although there is no right way or wrong way for businesses to adopt a cloud strategy, Hybridcloud appears to be the more popular way for businesses to drive digital transformation, especially during the last few years following the pandemic.
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Leveraging more than one IT infrastructure…but struggle with visibility of data across environments with only 40% reporting complete visibility into where their data resides.
Nutanix research, cloud specialist
Although there is no right way or wrong way for businesses to adopt a cloud strategy, Hybrid cloud appears to be the more popular way for businesses to drive digital transformation, especially during the last few years following the pandemic.
Hybrid cloud is generally defined as a mixed environment of on premises infrastructure, private cloud services and public clouds managed by vendors such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft, with orchestration software for the various platforms. In all, analyst Gartner predicts that total end-user spending in world-wide cloud services could reach $600bn in 2023.
This will be largely driven by cloud application services (SaaS), closely followed by cloud system infrastructure services (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).
In the first cloud deployments, companies mainly concentrated on data storage rather than “insight generation” or gaining meaningful insight from data according to Suresh Vittal, Chief Product Officer at cloud analytics firm Alteryx. Later, the need for data storage was augmented by the growth of apps and the growing shift to software-as-a-service capabilities. And with the exponential growth of data and its distribution across multiple instances, 2023 will mean it is a year of both hybrid adoption, as well as the quest to manage and analyse this data to gain insight.
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