Agencies can select suppliers they are familiar with, but there may be strategic reasons why a specific cloud environment is the greatest fit. A cloud vendor, for example, may have unique partnerships that make it an obvious choice for specific workloads.
Whatever circumstances drive a company to adopt a multicloud strategy, IT and business management must guarantee that their environments are in top shape. Here are some areas to keep an eye on:
Too many executives anticipated that the cloud would be less expensive than on-premises settings, and instead of redesigning their workloads for the cloud, they simply “lifted and shifted” their resources.
When businesses adopt a multicloud strategy, the same thing can happen: costs can quickly spiral out of control.
Cloud vendors offer built-in solutions to assist enterprises in tracking and managing expenditures. Value-added partners can assist businesses in developing predictive cost models and alerting stakeholders to future price hikes.
The most important priority for any agency with a multicloud system should be managing workloads to ensure that they are always completely accessible and perform well. When a program uses data from multiple clouds, network latency might result in lags that degrade the user experience.
Again, organizations can benefit from collaborating with a reliable partner.
A partner manages the day-to-day management of cloud-based services and technical support under a managed services model, freeing up internal IT workers to focus on more strategic initiatives.
If agencies do not create criteria to manage who may access what resources and how they can access them, security issues can arise fast in a multicloud setting.
Organizations should generally follow the principle of least privilege, giving users access to only the data and systems they require to complete their work. This isn’t to say that businesses should throw up barriers in the way of employees’ productivity.
However, it does imply that data, particularly highly regulated or otherwise sensitive data, should not be made readily available to those who do not require it.
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