FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
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ORGANISATIONS WANT MULTI-CLOUD AND BEST-OF-BREED, BUT FROM A SINGLE SUPPLIER, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT AN MSP CAN PROVIDE.
Michael Tso, CEO of Cloudian
Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn, Tech Evangelist at Zerto multi-cloud strategy on a solid architecture.“ Most organisations already employ different cloud ecosystems, depending on the use case. But using different platforms at the same time doesn’ t constitute a successful multi-cloud strategy. A good strategy enables IT teams to achieve full‘ cloud-flexibility’ and get the best possible solution for every scenario.”
Mat Clothier, CEO, CTO and Co-Founder at Cloudhouse
Doorn continued:“ To adopt a true multicloud strategy effectively, organisations need to approach the process, not by trying to force legacy tools to work in their new environments, but by adopting new solutions that are built with the future in mind – a future where the majority of businesses are leveraging more than one cloud platform to
Mark Young, VP of Systems Engineering & Field CTO EMEA at Tintri
move workloads freely as they see fit for their business, while also fully protecting them.”
It’ s all about the architecture
Mark Young, VP of Systems Engineering and Field CTO EMEA at Tintri, said that the best starting point for organisations is to build a
Young went on to suggest:“ Some of those scenarios are best served running on a local cloud architecture, like VDI, DevOps or databases. In those instances, it is critical to ensure they are underpinned by a powerful and modern cloud storage architecture that is fast, easy to manage, integrates well with hypervisors and is ready for automation. By covering this key part of the multi-cloud strategy, businesses will be able to reap the full benefits of the private cloud element of their multi-cloud strategy.”
A future in multiple clouds
As organisations increasingly rely on the importance of data, many are looking to utilise the best tools available. As a result, there is a steady rise in the adoption of multi-cloud environments. To support this, Research and Markets recently predicted that the multi-cloud management market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30.9 % until 2022. •
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