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Why Are Enterprises Adopting Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Strategies?

By Dr. Sayed Peerzade
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Jun 15, 2023
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4 min read

Cloud computing has become crucial for business operations in the present digital age. Cloud infrastructure offers scalability and flexibility, given that it can manage a wide range of requirements, such as storage, networking, and application development. Now, it’s important to note that a one-size-fits-all approach may not be the most ideal for organisations with a range of workloads. Hybrid, multi-cloud strategies can aid in tackling this dilemma – helping an organisation increase the flexibility and resilience of its IT infrastructure. What this essentially means is that companies’ unique workloads and applications get the most suitable infrastructure environment. But its benefits go much beyond that. Here’s how.

  • Higher Application Performance
    A well-implemented hybrid, multi-cloud strategy provides enterprises with the flexibility to effortlessly distribute workloads among multiple cloud platforms, along with a primary data center. This enables them to benefit from each infrastructure’s strengths. This approach can prove helpful in improving application performance by selecting the infrastructure geographically closest to end-users, or best suited for specific applications. Hybrid multi-cloud strategies help enterprises optimise their resource utilisation by distributing workloads across infrastructure platforms, reducing the risk of downtime, and improving overall system resilience.
  • Supports Business Dynamics
    In recent years, there has been a surge in mergers and acquisitions, and this trend is expected to persist. Hybrid, multi-cloud strategies offer a flexible IT infrastructure that supports the integration of diverse systems across different enterprises. Hybrid, multi-cloud strategies allow enterprises to integrate applications from different clouds and data center environments.
  • Avoids Vendor Lock-in
    When organisations are dependent on a single infrastructure platform, it may be challenging to transition to another provider if the service or cost is unsatisfactory. Adopting a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy enables companies to take advantage of the most competitive pricing, cutting-edge capabilities, and infrastructure components of many providers while also avoiding vendor lock-in. Making sure that applications and data can move smoothly between cloud platforms, data center, and applications is crucial for the success of this strategy.
  • Cost Savings
    By adopting a hybrid multi-cloud approach, enterprises leverage each infrastructure platform as per their consumption requirements, thereby helping them take advantage of price differentials while optimising performance. For instance, they can use a low-cost infrastructure platform for storing data and a high-performance platform to run compute-intensive workloads, based on the industry and risk appetite. Organisations can choose the most cost-effective option for each workload and avoid paying for services they may not need.
  • Increased Agility & Innovation
    Adopting a hybrid multi-cloud strategy can improve an organisation’s agility and innovation capabilities. Enterprises can select the best platform for each unique application or workload by combining the various qualities of several cloud service providers. This shortens the time to market and promotes quicker innovation by enabling them to build and deploy applications more quickly and effectively. Furthermore, hybrid multi-cloud solutions free companies from the restrictions and needs of a single platform, allowing them to test and experiment with new technologies, tools, and services. This adaptability can assist businesses in staying one step ahead of the competition and responding promptly to shifting business requirements.

    Businesses stand to benefit from a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy since it simplifies the management of the infrastructure and promotes flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. A strong governance framework and centralised management tools to maximise resource usage are necessary to manage a multi-cloud system. Yotta federated cloud service simplifies multi-cloud complexity by offering a single-window cloud solution that optimises resources across private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environments.

Stay One Step Ahead With Yotta Cloud Services

Cloud solutions have become increasingly popular in recent years due to the many benefits they offer businesses. Yotta offers a range of cloud infrastructure solutions to businesses of all sizes. Yotta Enterprise Cloud services provide cost-effective and dependable public cloud services, including compute, storage, connectivity, and business continuity. It is backed by an uptime SLA of 99.95%. The services offered by Yotta Enterprise Cloud are not restricted solely to Compute as a Service (CaaS). They encompass storage, backup and recovery, and security, among others.

For businesses looking to maximise their cloud infrastructure, multi-cloud strategies have become a viable option; they can gain from more flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Organisations can avoid vendor lock-in, enable mergers and acquisitions, and manage workloads seamlessly with the use of hybrid, multi-cloud solutions. However, managing this infrastructure environment can be complex, and it requires a robust governance framework and centralised management tools. Yotta federated cloud service simplifies hybrid, multi-cloud complexities by offering a single-window cloud solution that optimises resources across private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments.

Dr. Sayed Peerzade
EVP & Chief Cloud Officer

Dr. Sayed Peerzade is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in global technology operations, product development and digital transformation. He is well recognised for his contribution to India’s CIO community and enterprises. He drives Yotta’s cloud business and a host of cloud services.

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