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VMWare Principal Partner and Africa\u2019s only neutral cloud infrastructure business, Routed, says implementing a workable multicloud strategy hinges on a business properly assessing applications within its current infrastructure environment to decide which cloud is ideal for each of its applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis should be balanced against the ability to provide fault tolerance for each application across cloud operators, as well as the integration between applications which might affect decisions to deploy applications together on the same cloud platform, or across multiple cloud platforms,\u201d says Andrew Cruise, Managing Director, Routed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another equally important consideration is ensuring internal resilience when migrating or developing applications on any cloud platform. \u201cIt\u2019s much better to first mitigate risk and avoid downtime caused by relatively minor issues, and only then design fault tolerance or failover between cloud operators in the event of a major downtime incident on one of your cloud operators,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An organisation\u2019s choice of providers should be dictated by their ability to deliver a secure, performant and highly available hosting experience, combined with the required features and functions for all business applications. \u201cYour provider\u2019s credibility and reliability track record should be investigated and their expertise to run your business-critical applications queried,\u201d notes Cruise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He adds that a multicloud approach does not have to include all cloud operators or indeed any of the hyperscale cloud operators. \u201cRisk mitigation dictates that multiple cloud operators should be chosen, but it should also be feasible for these to use one consistent platform, which is what VMware Cloud has been designed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The benefits of multicloud typically fall into two groups; the first being the value features of each individual cloud and the second group centred on risk mitigation, it\u2019s important to remember that these two groups are inherently in conflict. \u201cBy definition, unique platforms, software and functions offered by a specific cloud provider are not offered by the others and therefore it is nearly impossible to load balance or provide cross-cloud resilience for applications that are developed with these toolsets across multiple cloud platforms,\u201d explains Cruise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Achieving resilience requires a lowest common denominator approach, which means using tools, functions and software available across all the cloud platforms in use. \u201cNotably, the exception to this conflict is the VMware Cloud ecosystem: whether hosted in AWS, Azure, GCP, or any of the global hyperscale clouds, or on a local VMware cloud operator, or on VMware Cloud Foundation on dedicated internally managed infrastructure, a common toolset and software stack facilitates a consistent experience for hosted applications,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While multicloud and its place in digital transformation continues to evolve, Cruise cautions that it may not be suitable for every organisation, and those that do embark on the journey should expect proper implementation to take time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCloud hype has progressed from the urgent \u2018move to cloud!\u2019 call of a decade ago, to \u2018hybrid cloud rules\u2019 five years ago, to the \u2018multicloud or bust!\u2019 message of today. Of course, each of these blanket statements has merit but there is no magic silver bullet for a businesses\u2019 infrastructure requirements. Although the predicted move to cloud has been slower than the experts predicted, I believe that the multicloud story will be slightly more common than niche,\u201d says Cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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