Best Data Management Strategy for Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Tech | March 04, 2019

Enterprises are continuing to accelerate the migration of workloads to public cloud service providers – such as AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google – often as part of an overall digital transformation and cloud-first IT strategy. According to LogicMonitor, more than 80 percent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. Businesses need a multi-cloud solution that provides them with an integrated environment to migrate workloads between multiple public clouds, or between private and public clouds. In addition, enterprises require multi-cloud solutions that can be custom-tuned for specific applications, as well as provide the ability to port workloads from one public cloud to another for additional flexibility and resiliency – this is where SD-WAN comes into play. Turning to a multi-cloud strategy with SD-WAN: In this new multi-cloud era, businesses are often faced with an entirely new set of questions and challenges, which can be daunting and confusing. For example, how do businesses use the internet to connect users securely and directly to cloud applications? How do they ensure the performance for every business-critical app? How do they keep pace with WAN changes without going device-by-device? How do they deploy new applications quickly to thousands of sites, across multiple clouds? How do they see everything and always know which WAN issues to focus on? How do they reduce human error in an ever-changing environment? How do they make sure their WAN always keeps pace with the business? And how do they protect their business when cloud is open and connected? To counter these complexities, organisations are turning to service providers to deploy and manage SD-WAN, a virtual network architecture that enables enterprises to secure private and public cloud connectivity between branch offices and larger corporate data centres, for any cloud application, using any transport.

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Cloud Tech | January 23, 2019

Transitioning to the cloud is not so much taking a fresh plot of land and building up from there, but more trying to renovate an existing property. For larger organisations with sprawling IT outfits, it can be particularly complicated even once the bulk of the work has been done, with on-premise systems here, public cloud workloads there, and private cloud in between. What’s more, organisations are realising that one size may not fit all just for cloud, but for public cloud. Take Netflix as a key example. Industry media tried to storm up a brouhaha last year when it was reported the streaming company, famously an Amazon Web Services (AWS) house, was using Google Cloud for certain workloads. Yet Netflix told this publication at the time there was ‘no change’ in its relationship with AWS and that it had been using Google for ‘a while’. Rather than any great revelation, the Netflix story simply emphasised the IT needs of fast-paced organisations today. But as cloud complexity gets more important, so does the need to secure and monitor it. Cloud management platforms (CMPs) are therefore becoming a very hot property in the industry. Like any technology subset, it can take time before industry validation. Gartner, which defines a CMP simply as ‘integrated products that provide for the management of public, private and hybrid cloud environments’, recently released its first Magic Quadrant in the area.

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DLT Solutions | August 31, 2016

In the quest to build more recurring revenue, solution providers have had to take different approaches to their sales strategies and tactics.That's especially true for channel partners that have been around since the pre-cloud days. As they have expanded their service offerings, there's a stronger need to get to know their customers and would-be customers, approaching each engagement with the primary goal of building a relationship rather than executing a transaction.

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