I believe that Multi-cloud environments are going to be the most important technology investment in 2018/2019. This will drive education and new skill development among various technology workers. Apparently, it’s not just me, IDC prediction is that “More than 85% of Enterprise IT Organizations Will Commit to Multicloud Architectures by 2018, Driving up the Rate and Pace of Change in IT Organizations”.There some great resources online for multi-cloud, strategy, benefits, all worth reading:
The list could be hundreds of articles. I wanted to provide a few, that I thought were interesting and relevant to this discussion of why Multi-cloud. There are four drivers behind this trend:
First - Containers will allow you to deploy your application anywhere, including all the major cloud players have Kubernetes, Docker support. This means you could deploy to AWS, Azure, and Google without rewriting any code. Application support, development, maintenance is what drives technology dollars. Maintaining one set of code that runs anywhere doesn’t cost any more and gives you complete autonomy.
Second - Companies like Joyent, Netlify, HashiCorp Terraform and many more are building their solutions for multi-cloud, giving the control, manageability, ease of use, etc. Technology is like Field of Dreams, quote, “if you build it they will come.” Very few large companies jump into something without support, they wait for some level of maturity to be developed and then wade in slowly.
Third - The biggest reason is a lack of trust putting all your technology assets into one company. Most companies had for years multi-data center strategies, using a combination of self-created, leverage multiple companies like Wipro, IBM, HP, Digital Realty Trust, etc., and various co-location. For big companies when the cloud became popular, it was how do I augment my existing environment with Cloud. Now many companies are applying a Cloud First Strategy . So why wouldn’t principles that were applied for decades in technology, be applied to the cloud. Everyone remembers the saying, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. I understand there are regions, multi-AZ, resiliency, and redundancy, but at the end of the day one cloud provider is one cloud provider, and all my technology eggs are in that one basket.
Fourth - The last reason is pricing. If you can move your entire workload from Amazon to Google within minutes, it forces cloud vendors to keep costs low as cloud service charges for what you use. I understand if you have a workload with petabytes of data, it’s not going to move. But have web services with small data behind them, they can move and relatively quickly with the right deployment tools in place.
What do you think? Leave me a comment with your feedback or ideas?
I believe that Multi-cloud environments are going to be the most important technology investment in 2018/2019. This will drive education and new skill development among various technology workers. Apparently, it’s not just me, IDC prediction is that “More than 85% of Enterprise IT Organizations Will Commit to Multicloud Architectures by 2018, Driving up the Rate and Pace of Change in IT Organizations”.There some great resources online for multi-cloud, strategy, benefits, all worth reading:
The list could be hundreds of articles. I wanted to provide a few, that I thought were interesting and relevant to this discussion of why Multi-cloud. There are four drivers behind this trend:
First - Containers will allow you to deploy your application anywhere, including all the major cloud players have Kubernetes, Docker support. This means you could deploy to AWS, Azure, and Google without rewriting any code. Application support, development, maintenance is what drives technology dollars. Maintaining one set of code that runs anywhere doesn’t cost any more and gives you complete autonomy.
Second - Companies like Joyent, Netlify, HashiCorp Terraform and many more are building their solutions for multi-cloud, giving the control, manageability, ease of use, etc. Technology is like Field of Dreams, quote, “if you build it they will come.” Very few large companies jump into something without support, they wait for some level of maturity to be developed and then wade in slowly.
Third - The biggest reason is a lack of trust putting all your technology assets into one company. Most companies had for years multi-data center strategies, using a combination of self-created, leverage multiple companies like Wipro, IBM, HP, Digital Realty Trust, etc., and various co-location. For big companies when the cloud became popular, it was how do I augment my existing environment with Cloud. Now many companies are applying a Cloud First Strategy . So why wouldn’t principles that were applied for decades in technology, be applied to the cloud. Everyone remembers the saying, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. I understand there are regions, multi-AZ, resiliency, and redundancy, but at the end of the day one cloud provider is one cloud provider, and all my technology eggs are in that one basket.
Fourth - The last reason is pricing. If you can move your entire workload from Amazon to Google within minutes, it forces cloud vendors to keep costs low as cloud service charges for what you use. I understand if you have a workload with petabytes of data, it’s not going to move. But have web services with small data behind them, they can move and relatively quickly with the right deployment tools in place.
What do you think? Leave me a comment with your feedback or ideas?
