INTELLIGENT CLOUD
Gartner’s
position on
cloud security
has been clear:
public cloud
services offered
by the leading
cloud providers
are secure.
Jeroen Schlosser, Managing Director, Equinix MENA.
with organisations saving an average of 14
per cent through cloud migration. Gartner
also found that rapid IT and business
transformation are major incentives for
jumping into the cloud. Companies are
recognising the tactical benefits of public
cloud cost savings and innovation, as well
as the value of being able to establish a
strategic foundation for future applications
and digital business processes. Gartner
also predicted that hybrid cloud will
dominate these enterprise deployments.
We at Equinix also see multi-cloud
convergence hitting a tipping point and
the cloud as a major catalyst for changing
how enterprises will do business in the
emerging global digital economy.
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Overcoming cloud
adoption barriers
Still, cloud adoption barriers remain, even
as it steadily moves forward within the
enterprise. Gartner reports that “security
and/or privacy concerns continue to be the
top inhibitors to public cloud adoption,
despite the strong security track record
and increased transparency of leading
cloud providers.” However, according to
Ed Anderson, Research Vice President
at Gartner, “Gartner’s position on cloud
security has been clear: public cloud
services offered by the leading cloud
providers are secure. The real security
challenge is using public cloud services in a
secure manner.”
One of the ways businesses can use
the cloud more securely is through direct,
dedicated interconnections between
network and cloud providers and users
and data, bypassing the hacking and
performance risks of the public Internet.
Hybrid and multi-cloud integration and
management are also often considered
hurdles in initial cloud deployment, and
maintaining high-level performance is
another challenge. Leveraging dense
ecosystems of network, cloud and IT
service providers can help with cloud
integration by enabling more direct
interconnection to a rich choice of cloud
migration services and providers.
Moving enterprise IT infrastructure
to the edge, where proximate, direct
cloud and carrier interconnections can
be deployed via growing numbers of
concentrated cloud/network provider
and business ecosystems, is a great way
to achieve lower latency. It also brings
enterprise IT services closer to globally
dispersed employees, partners, customers
and things, and the massive amounts of
data they create.
And as organisations move further into
hybrid and multi-cloud environments,
high-performance, direct and secure
interconnections will be critical to a viable
user and business digital experience.
More information can be downloaded at:
www.equinix.com/resources/whitepapers/
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