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MAPPING THE MULTI-CLOUD ENTERPRISE:
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iINTRODUCTION
There are a wide variety of opinions about when
cloud computing first emerged as a force in global
IT, but the year 2006 is a certainly a critical and
formative milestone. That year, Amazon launched
Amazon Web Services and Elastic Compute Cloud
to provide flexible computing capacity to business
customers on a large scale. Since that time, there
has been an inexorable march into the cloud.
Other leading vendors followed suit. In 2008, Google
introduced the Google App Engine, its Platform as
a Service and cloud platform for developing and
hosting web applications in Google-managed data
centers. Microsoft introduced its cloud computing
service, Microsoft Azure, in 2010.
Today, the growing embrace of the cloud as the
critical platform for building, testing, deploying
and managing applications, services and data –
along with the rise of a significant number of
major cloud platform providers, not to mention
cloud application providers – has led many
organizations to adopt new multi-cloud
computing strategies.
The desire to accelerate digital transformation,
improve compute and cost efficiencies, meet
regulatory requirements and increase performance,
scalability and reliability, has pushed organizations
to distribute their cloud assets, software,
applications and data across multiple cloud
environments and vendors.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is moving
rapidly toward a cloud-first strategy that embraces
both private clouds via GovCloud and multiple
public cloud providers. Deficiencies in the SBA’s own
data centers led the CIO, Maria Roat, to mandate
that “nothing new goes into our data center” when
she joined the agency in 2016. She expects to
virtually close their primary data center in the next
few months.
Franklin Templeton, a global company providing
investment management solutions to retail,
institutional and sovereign wealth clients in over
170 countries, has adopted a hybrid multi-cloud
strategy embracing both private and public clouds.
Currently, most of its public cloud workloads are
with a single provider.
However, the company will ultimately probably
use at least one other major public cloud platform,
according to Raja Mohan, senior strategic architect
for cloud and platform services, and Doug Rheams,
networks solutions architect.
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