The discussion around multi-cloud benefits (such as vendor neutrality, cost optimization, business agility, and risk management) has concluded, and business has spoken through actions. According to a report by Forrester and Virtustream in 2018, 86% of companies that were surveyed have a multi cloud strategy. Gartner also says that multi-cloud is a $240 bn market.
It’s evident that depending on a single cloud provider is clearly not the most optimal way to drive IT and staying away from the notion of multi-cloud is no longer an option for businesses. In fact, CIOs now need to answer a new set of questions like:
These questions (and many, many more) describe an organization’s multi-cloud strategy. We must also appreciate the difference between ‘using multiple clouds’ and ‘having a multi-cloud strategy’. These are not the same, though are often used synonymously.
Most multi-cloud setups today are more tactical in nature (to meet isolated departmental needs like security, compute, storage, etc.). By adding the strategic angle to the enterprise multi-cloud story, CIOs can take their operational needs to a whole new level altogether. Here are some of the ‘strategic’ aspects that need to be factored while thinking about your multi-cloud plan:
A robust and sustainable multi-cloud strategy involves a lot of planning and also needs a clear understanding of departmental objectives, involved users / stakeholders and unique needs of various enterprise workloads. CIOs need to consider working with cloud services partners like Netmagic that can provide the architectural capabilities and multi-cloud management expertise to draw a realistic and actionable implementation roadmap and governance strategy for multi-cloud management.
Nitin Mishra
Head of Cloud services, NTT Ltd., India
Nitin Mishra is head of Cloud services business in India and also serves as Board Director on some of NTT Ltd’s India companies. The India business is part of NTT Ltd, which is US$11 billion global technology Services arm of the NTT Group. Nitin has almost 25 years of industry experience in the ICT domain and Indian Enterprise market. He has been a key Management member of the erstwhile Netmagic for over 21 years and has played many significant multi-functional roles. Netmagic was acquired by NTT and is now integrated into NTT Ltd.