{"id":144269,"date":"2023-02-22T08:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=144269"},"modified":"2023-09-27T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T17:44:49","slug":"the-future-is-multicloud-that-future-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2023\/02\/the-future-is-multicloud-that-future-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future is Multicloud, That Future is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can multicloud be simplified to the point where anything\u2019s possible?<\/h1>\n
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Today, multicloud is the new reality \u2013 and it will be so tomorrow. We don\u2019t believe it\u2019s true that all organisations are on a journey to deploy workloads to a single hyperscaler \u2013 and the research supports that view.<\/p>\n

As many as 76% of cloud buyers now use multiple cloud providers. More than half of organisations are planning hybrid cloud deployments between private and public cloud; 48% plan to increase their cloud spending; and 66% want to improve their cloud security this year.<\/p>\n

Multicloud<\/a>\u00a0is the cloud market from now on. But your journey isn\u2019t likely to be linear. To set yourself up for success, expect a continuous cycle of transformation and optimisation, delivering incremental improvements and increased value with each step.<\/p>\n

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Keeping cloud simple is a complex matter<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Most organisations understand they must overcome some challenges in adopting cloud, and those challenges are multiplied with multiple clouds.<\/p>\n

This is never simple, whether it\u2019s managing multiple cloud partners; creating secure, consistent environments across managed public cloud, on-premises and\u00a0private cloud platforms<\/a>; or juggling the needs of traditional and cloud-native applications.<\/p>\n

Along with increased complexity comes increased cyber crime vulnerability. Your business growth can also slow down to a snail\u2019s pace when governance, risk and compliance measures become increasingly onerous. Given that most cloud vendors are seeking some form of lock-in agreement, managing multicloud landscapes can be costly, too. Even getting visibility of your entire estate doesn\u2019t come cheap.<\/p>\n

Add to this the upskilling of your organisation to manage two of the major public-cloud operators and a private cloud, for example, and suddenly your investment in people, processes and certifications becomes massive. It\u2019s no mystery why as many as 70% of businesses rely on\u00a0managed cloud services providers<\/a>\u00a0like us to help them keep things simpler.<\/p>\n

Lawter is a Belgian chemicals manufacturer and a longstanding client of ours. Initially, they moved to us from an incumbent supplier to manage their 麻豆原创 estate on top of a private cloud. We\u2019re now moving those same workloads from private cloud onto Azure, all while delivering a consistent managed service for their 麻豆原创 Basis environment. We\u2019re giving them full flexibility to choose the flavour of multicloud they need, but with the consistency and simplicity of our managed services.<\/p>\n

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Your employees are your secret sauce<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

All cloud challenges are hard to solve without skilled employees. And unless you have an enormous IT budget, you\u2019re unlikely to have a deep bench. All of this slows your pace of innovation because your staff is focused elsewhere. Getting new services to market requires fast development \u2013 which is one of the reasons why cloud spending is no longer just the domain of the CIO. It\u2019s not only about cost savings for the lines of business, but also about using cloud services to invest and innovate.<\/p>\n

Another of our clients, Henkel, a chemicals manufacturer, was driven by the need to simplify a complex environment of multiple hybrid and on-premises contact centres into a single, cloud-based solution. Following our successfully orchestrated, remote migration during COVID-19, the cloud-based contact centre solution now gives them the flexibility to effectively manage their costs while introducing digital channels and operational enhancements that their customers and service teams were awaiting.<\/p>\n

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Everything\u2019s simple, anything\u2019s possible<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Multicloud as a service is about realising the art of the possible. Because you often use more than one cloud provider, it should make it simpler to manage complexity. But it should also give you cloud multi-vision so you can have your eyes and ears everywhere across your IT estate in an instant, combined with the intelligence and insight that modern technologies like AI and predictive analytics deliver to put you in control.<\/p>\n

And when it comes to innovation, you\u2019ll want to take the brakes off, which means you need to optimise your application workloads through application modernisation and hosting initiatives aimed at freeing up your employees. With multicloud, innovation is well within your reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can multicloud be simplified to the point where anything\u2019s possible? Today, multicloud is the new reality \u2013 and it will be so tomorrow. 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