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Kathleen Martin
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Application economy and hybrid cloud have been around for about a decade as part of the technology lexicon. For IT infrastructure and operations teams, the intersection of these two terms reflects both the immense opportunity and challenge they face in helping their businesses succeed in the digital era. There is no question that applications are the key interface between businesses and their customers, partners, employees, and other key stakeholders. Thus, application experience and the velocity of development and innovation often equal business success.
The IT infrastructure and operations teams play a critical role as the services they provide directly impact application performance, reliability, and experience. Standing in their way is a mishmash of highly distributed and diverse set of technologies that are resident in enterprise data centers, colocation facilities, network edge, and many different public clouds and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. Collectively, this environment is known as the hybrid cloud.
The challenge for IT is determining the best ways to make different applications and their underlying workloads work seamlessly together across the highly distributed hybrid cloud. The opportunity is for IT to combine and unify the best available on-premises and cloud technologies to optimize application experience and performance. The top three tools that IT should closely examine are full-stack observability, cloud-native services, and flexible consumption model.
Because these tools already exist in public cloud and SaaS platforms, some might consider the solution of simply lifting-and-shifting every application and workload to the cloud. But this is not a practical solution for many reasons, including cost, compliance, governance, operational efficacy, ROI, etc. Instead, the better solution will be to leverage the relative strength of each of different hybrid cloud elements while balancing the expected payoff against costs, skillsets, compliance, and time-to-value. Here’s how that might look with the three tools mentioned above.
Continue reading: https://www.cio.com/article/308452/how-it-can-use-the-hybrid-cloud-to-win-in-the-application-economy.html
The IT infrastructure and operations teams play a critical role as the services they provide directly impact application performance, reliability, and experience. Standing in their way is a mishmash of highly distributed and diverse set of technologies that are resident in enterprise data centers, colocation facilities, network edge, and many different public clouds and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. Collectively, this environment is known as the hybrid cloud.
The challenge for IT is determining the best ways to make different applications and their underlying workloads work seamlessly together across the highly distributed hybrid cloud. The opportunity is for IT to combine and unify the best available on-premises and cloud technologies to optimize application experience and performance. The top three tools that IT should closely examine are full-stack observability, cloud-native services, and flexible consumption model.
Because these tools already exist in public cloud and SaaS platforms, some might consider the solution of simply lifting-and-shifting every application and workload to the cloud. But this is not a practical solution for many reasons, including cost, compliance, governance, operational efficacy, ROI, etc. Instead, the better solution will be to leverage the relative strength of each of different hybrid cloud elements while balancing the expected payoff against costs, skillsets, compliance, and time-to-value. Here’s how that might look with the three tools mentioned above.
Continue reading: https://www.cio.com/article/308452/how-it-can-use-the-hybrid-cloud-to-win-in-the-application-economy.html
