Why should you choose a Multi-cloud strategy?
by Eshwar Natarajan in Cloud, General
What is multi-cloud?
Multi-cloud is the ability to utilize multiple cloud and storage services providers in a single heterogeneous architecture. With this strategy, organizations are less prone to getting locked in with a single service provider. This enables companies to benefit from the best features at lower pricing and with harnessing additional compute resources there is less chance of a single point failure.
Why adopt multi-cloud?
Initially there was only one major cloud provider. Today the scenario is different with multiple large providers competing for your patronage. The utilization of Platform as a Service(PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) have become the preferred choice for products and services as it allows organizations to focus on the business and removes IT infrastructure as a bottleneck to growth. It is not only the most effective way of possessing computing power but it enables us to implement new and more efficient operation models for our businesses.
To imbibe an array of dynamic features, organizations opt for Hybrid cloud model approach, a mixture of on premise and cloud with a proper balance between the two platforms. It enables an organization to gain higher flexibility and greater deployment options. However, in a hybrid cloud model, organizations need to invest extensively in hardware such as data center, storage, including servers, load balancers and a local area network(LAN) while scaling. These expenses overrun maintenance costs of everything in the public cloud.
Hybrid cloud allows you to spread your workload across multiple cloud providers. This allows you to use the best of all from each leading to cost and service optimization. Thus the best solution to scale and sustain with lower costs is multi-cloud.
Benefits of adopting multi-cloud for the organization?
Multi-cloud is the best strategy for organizations constantly evolving and innovating. Through infrastructure flexibility, it enables your application to scale. Some of the significant benefits of multi-cloud are:
- Exposure to new features: With a multi-cloud model you don’t have to wait for support on a feature from a service provider. Instead, it enables you to choose the best service provider for individual components. This allows you to experience new features and components from different service providers and how they can benefit you
- Better disaster recovery: Multi-cloud provides much simpler data recovery where you can easily replicate your resources to second cloud storage
- Flexible server configurations: The multi-cloud architecture provides greater flexibility to choose between different server configuration and environments enabling you to utilize and take advantage of resources
- Vendor independent upgrade: Whenever your organization is planning to scale the currently used cloud service you don’t have to be dependent on a single vendor or repurchase the service. In multi-cloud you can choose multiple vendors with the legroom of negotiating the price of the service
- Diverse geographical access: In the multi-cloud structure, you can select the optimal location based on local laws and compliance requirements as well as performance requirements.
Now, with all these features and advantages comes the challenge of selecting the optimal service from each based on multiple parameters. The second challenge is managing the infrastructure across the providers. This requires certain expertise that Nuage brings to the table. To help you in this endeavor of moving towards the cloud, our team at Nuage can assist you at every step. We will help you design, implement and operate your multi-cloud infrastructure with industry-grade tools and practices.
To know more how we can help you, contact our cloud experts on info@nuagebiz.tech