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What Is the Future of Multi-Cloud Computing? By Stephanie Rowan
Like so many other IT solutions, cloud computing services have long been promoted from a standpoint of administrative efficiency. As the rationale goes, if you get your cloud services from a single provider, you'll enjoy the reduced hassle of consolidating third party business relationships, receive IT services at bargain prices, and have an easier time coordinating those services.
It's true that using fewer service providers can offer some nice perks, but cloud computing is moving in the opposite direction at many companies. Instead of reaping the benefits of placing cloud services under one umbrella, businesses are mining the advantages of the antithetical approach: receiving cloud services from multiple providers - a discipline known as "multi-cloud computing."
According to a mid-2016 report from Business Cloud News (BCN), "57% of organizations have no multi-cloud strategy at all, whereas 35% do not have a private cloud strategy, and 28% lack one for [a] public cloud." According to IT commentators ranging from Google to Forbes, these three groups have one thing in common: All of them will increasingly adopt multi-cloud strategies as the technology improves and proliferates.
The Sun Behind the Clouds Multi-cloud computing brings the need to maintain multiple cloud provider relationships instead of maintaining just one. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, when company decision makers are still accustomed to viewing every kind of business functionality through the lens of cost cutting, it begs the question: What do companies get in return for taking extra time to oversee those relationships?
The answer is simultaneously vague and clear: It depends on the needs of the company in question. However, the characteristics of some companies set them up to benefit from multi-cloud computing more than other companies.
Company Size For example, company size can be a big determinant of multi-cloud benefits. According to a 2017 report from Network World, "It's inevitable big companies with many divisions and their own agendas and vendor alliances will end up with multiple clouds ... Settling on a single cloud model would create compromises for such [companies] that would ultimately dilute [the cloud's] benefits and the business use case."
Cloud Performance Another value proposition of multi-clouding involves the performance of cloud resources. From the same Network World report: "Organizations tend to prefer a multi-cloud strategy to get out of the ‘keeping all your eggs in one basket' problem that can leave them vulnerable to a variety of issues, such as cloud data center outages, bandwidth problems, and vendor lock-in."
Data Compliance Concern over data compliance also leads to using multiple clouds. This alleviates the worry about the level of data exposure in places where cloud services are largely ungoverned. Companies that do this can store offsite backup data close to home, while opportunistically receiving other cloud services from providers in other locations.
Hybridization: A Sensible Approach For comparison's sake, cloud computing is commonly discussed using two basic cloud models: public clouds, which are outsourced; and private clouds, which are deployed and maintained in-house. But there's another popular cloud model - the hybrid cloud - that has taken on new meaning in the age of multi-clouding.
Forward-looking companies utilize this model of hybridization when it comes to efficient, yet security-focused storage and network processes. While public or third-party clouds offer a wealth of resources when it comes to data storage, they're still vulnerable to hacks, data breaches, or other security failures. For organizations that need a heightened level of security, hybrid models of private servers plus outsourced public solutions provide the best of both worlds: convenience and peace of mind.
Data Migration Hybrid clouds are precisely what they sound like: a hybridization of public clouds and private ones. Hybrid clouds are often used for efficiency's sake. Cloud functions that apply to the user's core business practices may be kept in-house, while functions that are tertiary to core practices - and should ideally be handled by an expert third party - are outsourced.
This situation also provides a highly flexible way for companies to fully outsource multi-clouding. Instead of implementing a public multi-cloud in one fell swoop and incurring a steep learning curve for using the new system(s), companies can migrate services from private clouds to public servers one by one, in a manner less jarring to cloud-based processes.
Proprietary Data Another advantage of gradually migrating from private to public clouds is that companies have more time to evaluate service providers. The providers store a company's business data - albeit, in encrypted form - on their servers. Considering that proprietary data is the most valuable asset most companies possess, the more time they have to vet offsite data storage providers, the better.
This brings us to a question many companies face when they evaluate the benefits of multi-cloud computing: What if company policy prevents third party service providers from storing proprietary information in a public cloud?
You could develop an initiative to change company policy, but it would be timelier - and probably involve a lot fewer clashes of opinion - to simply keep using a hybrid model, in a reduced capacity. Simply save the cloud for apps that involve sensitive data you can't share. This doesn't reduce the effectiveness of a multi-cloud setup but rather plays into its general philosophy: Use the best cloud for a particular, cloud-supported IT function.
Cloud Computing Tomorrow Due to these concerns and others, multi-cloud computing is poised to morph from a pervasive trend into a longstanding practice in numerous industries that have business-critical cloud computing needs. But the growth of using multiple clouds doesn't necessarily mean the number of the clouds in multi-cloud setups will increase.
Rather, the goal will be to use as many clouds as necessary to address the drawbacks of using one cloud from a single provider - even if that provider is a company providing its own cloud on a private model. Moving from cloud to cloud to perform tasks can be complicated, especially right out of the gate. But cloud service providers are working to make toggling between clouds increasingly efficient. The more efficient it becomes, the more multi-cloud computing will thrive.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation.
Track 1. Enterprise Cloud | Cloud-Native Track 2. Big Data | Analytics Track 3. Internet of Things | IIoT | Smart Cities Track 4. DevOps | Digital Transformation (DX) Track 5. APIs | Cloud Security | Mobility Track 6. AI | ML | DL | Cognitive Track 7. Containers | Microservices | Serverless Track 8. FinTech | InsurTech | Token Economy
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Every Global 2000 enterprise in the world is now integrating cloud computing in some form into its IT development and operations. Midsize and small businesses are also migrating to the cloud in increasing numbers.
Companies are each developing their unique mix of cloud technologies and services, forming multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures and deployments across all major industries. Cloud-driven thinking has become the norm in financial services, manufacturing, telco, healthcare, transportation, energy, media, entertainment, retail and other consumer industries, and the public sector.
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Sponsors of Cloud Expo |@ThingsExpo will benefit from unmatched branding, profile building and lead generation opportunities through:
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Showcase exhibition during our new extended dedicated expo hours
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Capitalize on our Comprehensive Marketing efforts leading up to the show with print mailings, e-newsletters and extensive online media coverage
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All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @CloudExpo | @ThingsExpo, October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-4, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation.
Delegates to Cloud Expo |@ThingsExpo will be able to attend 8 simultaneous, information-packed education tracks.
There are over 120 breakout sessions in all, with Keynotes, General Sessions, and Power Panels adding to three days of incredibly rich presentations and content.
Join Cloud Expo |@ThingsExpo conference chair Roger Strukhoff (@IoT2040), October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, for three days of intense Enterprise Cloud and 'Digital Transformation' discussion and focus, including Big Data's indispensable role in IoT, Smart Grids and (IIoT) Industrial Internet of Things, Wearables and Consumer IoT, as well as (new) Digital Transformation in Vertical Markets.
Financial Technology - or FinTech - Is Now Part of the @CloudExpo Program!
Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming 21st Cloud Expo |@ThingsExpo October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will find fresh new content in a new track called FinTech, which will incorporate machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and blockchain into one track.
Financial enterprises in New York City, London, Singapore, and other world financial capitals are embracing a new generation of smart, automated FinTech that eliminates many cumbersome, slow, and expensive intermediate processes from their businesses.
FinTech brings efficiency as well as the ability to deliver new services and a much improved customer experience throughout the global financial services industry. FinTech is a natural fit with cloud computing, as new services are quickly developed, deployed, and scaled on public, private, and hybrid clouds.
More than US$20 billion in venture capital is being invested in FinTech this year. @CloudExpo is pleased to bring you the latest FinTech developments as an integral part of our program, starting at the 21st International Cloud Expo October 31 - November 2, 2017 in Silicon Valley, and June 12-14, 2018, in New York City.
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