Multi-cloud by design
Sudhir Srinivasan , senior vice president of engineering technology at Dell Technologies , discusses why it ’ s essential to adopt a consistent cloud platform across environments .
BY SUDHIR SRINIVASAN
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If you ’ re like 76 % of midsize organizations in the 2021 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey , you ’ re already using multi-cloud . Perhaps you intended to , or maybe Software-as-a-Service , hybrid or public cloud offerings made sense as a replacement or complement to existing solutions to move faster , pivot quickly and unlock productivity .
This industry-wide trend toward improved IT agility and speed has meant organizations are increasingly running applications and workloads in multiple locations — in their own data centers , in multiple public clouds , in co-location facilities and at the edge . But this proliferation of cloud environments has come with numerous challenges , such as unpredictable costs , skill gaps within IT teams and concerns about security and governance .
We call this scenario “ multi-cloud by default .” You may have adopted certain cloud and as-a-Service solutions to be more agile and efficient , with an additional cost of increased operational complexity . As a result , you may be grappling with inconsistent security policies , skill gaps between teams and conflicting perspectives on where applications should live . All of this slows down decision-making , limits the agility you sought initially and can even introduce security gaps .
FROM BY DEFAULT TO BY DESIGN If all of this sounds like your organization , you ’ re not alone . Fortunately , you can solve these outgrowths of multi-cloud by default by adopting a consistent cloud platform across your environments . This lets you remove complexity and operational risk while providing your organization a better way to deliver what