The choice of multicloud strategies and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) solutions is closely connected, since both determine how an organization manages and optimizes its IT resources across multiple environments Cloud.
Using an operational approach Multicloud is becoming the standard for IT organizations of all sizes committed to digital transformation. In this article, we analyze why companies are increasingly choosing the multicloud and IaaS model to improve efficiency and competitiveness.
What is a multicloud strategy and why adopt it?
A multicloud strategy involves the use of cloud services of multiple cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), and CloudFire within the same organization. This approach offers numerous advantages both technologically and business, including:
- Strengthening the digital transformation;
- Reducing dependence on an individual Cloud provider (avoiding 'vendor locking');
- Optimization of costs by choosing specific providers for specific needs;
- Higher capacity of scalability and adaptation;
- Reduction of risks related to human error or unexpected geopolitical changes.
What is the connection between IaaS and a Multicloud strategy?
IaaS and multicloud are closely related, as they focus on the efficient management of IT resources in distributed environments. With an IaaS solution, organizations manage virtualized cloud infrastructure (VM, networking, storage) without having to maintain on-premise environments.
A combination of IaaS and multicloud strategy allows companies to:
- Freely choose cloud providers and IaaS solutions, optimizing costs and performance;
- Reduce dependency on a single vendor, facilitating the migration of Workload without interrupting the services;
- Efficiently manage applications and infrastructures, distributing resources based on Demand peaks and to the needs of scalability;
- Use tools to orchestration, such as Kubernetes, to simplify the management of distributed environments;
- Guarantee regulatory compliance managing data on infrastructures in different geographical locations
There are different multicloud strategies to adopt.
The multicloud strategy is a versatile tool that lends itself to being exploited in many ways, depending on the requirements and specific critical issues of the organization that you intend to mitigate with it. Here are a few practical approaches.
Multicloud intended as an extension
By extension in the multicloud context we mean the ability to migrate some functionality of an application or group of services from the on-premise world to the cloud.
We can find an example of such a strategic model in an application that needs specialized hardware within its own private-cloud (or on-premises). In this case, it is possible to migrate certain functionalities that would be more advantageous on cloud (e.g. DBaaS or LBaaS) and in fact 'extend' what is seen from the outside as a single application, expanding its features.
Multicloud understood as segmentation
Segmentation is defined as the process in which Applications or Services Are precisely Segmented.
This strategy is the simplest in a multi-cloud perspective and consists of dividing applications and services across multiple platforms. A concrete example is CRM on Salesforce, mail and documents with Office365, and a custom Remote App in the private infrastructure.
Multicloud and Load Balancing
Load Balancing is the most advanced strategy, which involves distributing workloads across multiple cloud providers, so that the application can move workloads where it is most efficient, ensuring seamless continuity for the end user.
An excellent example of how to adopt a multicloud load balancing strategy is an application integrated with Kubernetes, in this case a homogeneous development and release environment is obtained, but at the same time distributed in space on multiple cloud platforms.
What challenges are there in a multicloud model?
Despite the advantages, adopting multicloud involves some operational challenges that organizations must face:
- Management complexity in the integration of services provided by different cloud providers;
- Security issues and regulatory compliance across various cloud environments;
- Optimization of costs, managing different pricing models between IaaS;
- Portability Management data and applications between multiple providers;
- Continuous monitoring distributed infrastructure and performance, including latency between geographically distant data centers;
- Integrated technical support between different vendors to solve complex problems.
In CloudFire, we offer consultancy and complete solutions for organizations that intend to implement strategies Multicloud with solutions IaaS tailor-made, including Openstack as a Service, vSphere as a Service and solutions external to CloudFire.
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