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How businesses can combat complexities to become multicloud masters

2021-09-23 12:45:19| The Webmail Blog

How businesses can combat complexities to become multicloud masters chri6103 Thu, 09/23/2021 - 05:45 How businesses can combat complexities to become multicloud masters September 23, 2021 by Mahesh Desai, Chief Relationship Officer EMEA, Rackspace Technology Making the right decisions is rarely straightforward, especially when it comes to aligning business challenges with IT needs. As companies modernize and their operations become increasingly digital, moving to the cloud emerges as an important next step to ensure business objectives can be met. But even then, there are such a large number of cloud options that finding the right solution or combination is an intimidating challenge. The challenge is magnified as the need to get it right the first time is critical today, more than ever before. Our own research has shown how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to budgetary concerns for almost three quarters of IT leaders in EMEA. Two thirds of these leaders expect their budgets to increase this year (2021), while in an overwhelming majority of cases, digital transformation projects and plans to move away from legacy systems have been accelerated. As companies evolve rapidly, perhaps more quickly than they expected just a couple of years ago and especially as they seek to become less reliant on legacy technology operational challenges inevitably arise. Acting quickly and decisively is important, but so too is the need to avoid the pitfalls commonly associated with trying to run before learning to walk. This adds up to multiple challenges to decision makers who are still trying to establish an appropriate cloud strategy. Juggling a desire for cloud nativity with ongoing business and security requirements is not always straightforward. Choosing the right cloud provider, or combination of cloud solutions, can leave some overwhelmed by the amount of choice. However, in many cases, multicloud does emerge as the most effective solution, allowing companies to use public and private cloud systems together, and to tailor solutions to their specific needs. Facing the challenges No two organizations will have the same requirements, or face the same challenges, in their cloud journeys. The balance between control and scalability is always a delicate one. For example, gohenry, the app-based payment service for 6-18 year olds, increasingly identified that a move to public cloud would support the companys ambitions to grow its global user base a transition Rackspace Technology has overseen. Now gohenry has the right multicloud solution for its needs a mix of public and existing private cloud, as well as the tools it needs to adapt to any future requirements. Many organizations evolve to become multicloud users by circumstance, rather than by design, possibly by adopting public cloud early and then adding a private cloud system, or vice versa. As a result, they find they dont have the right combination of public or private cloud solutions in place. This can lead to an imbalance wherein different parts of each cloud environment are being used sub-optimally negating the true benefit of multicloud. Each workload should be operating in its best environment. This realization is a crucial first step for IT leaders who might assume that simply by having a multicloud solution in place, theyve done all they need to do. It is not a tick-box exercise, and leaders need to plan for continued optimization. Leaving legacy behind Conceptually, it is very easy to associate the newer elements of a business with the most current technologies. For instance, a company that has expanded online may have its ecommerce operations hosted on a public cloud, while it maintains legacy applications on servers that are managed in-house. While the younger ecommerce part of the business might even be cloud native, a perception that legacy operations must be treated as a separate entity and that transitioning that side of the business to the cloud is likely to be difficult can often hold companies back. In reality, multicloud is perfect for this kind of increasingly common hybrid business, with the majority of organizations functioning online in some capacity. A private cloud can host the legacy applications, with the public cloud offering scalability and cost benefits. Over time, this balance and interactivity can be adjusted. This was the case with international apparel retailer J.Crew, which initially upgraded its legacy operations, but quickly realized the greater benefit public cloud would bring to its global operations. As with many organizations, compliance and security were paramount concerns, and while public cloud is supremely secure, housing certain legacy operations in a private cloud was preferable. However, taking a multicloud approach enabled J.Crew to concurrently harness the scalability of public cloud to support the growth of its business around the world. Multicloud mastery No two organizations will have identical needs. For some, multicloud may not be the option. But for those that choose it for the right reasons, multicloud will ultimately deliver all of the components needed for a company to tailor a bespoke solution to its own unique needs. Recent Posts How to Drive Continuous Innovation with Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security September 30th, 2021 How to escape hyperscaler transfer fees September 30th, 2021 How businesses can combat complexities to become multicloud masters September 23rd, 2021 What does Industry 4.0 mean for manufacturing? September 20th, 2021

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Why network connectivity is key to successfully running your modern multicloud

2021-08-06 20:13:25| The Webmail Blog

Why network connectivity is key to successfully running your modern multicloud nellmarie.colman Fri, 08/06/2021 - 13:13   Most businesses are now using multiple clouds, across a variety of flavors: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, public and private, as well as legacy on-premises infrastructure. But few of them arrived in that situation by design. They didnt set out to have such a mixture, but business needs drove them into it. Despite the hyperscalers efforts to help these businesses out of that morass and onto their platforms, most businesses dont want to put all their eggs in one basket. Or theyve determined that certain applications need to head in one cloud direction, whilst others go in another. So hybrid multicloud is most likely the ongoing future for businesses today, as well as the need to optimize it all. And thats where network connectivity comes into play.   The current state of enterprise private networks The enterprise private network has long been the backbone of many large businesses. For 40+ years, it has provided the glue that binds an organizations distributed, global operations together evolving as new technologies come to market. In the 2000s, when the focus shifted to virtualization and the cloud, private networks appeared to lose their importance. But underneath it all, those networks never went away. A lot of businesses still rely on expensive Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) circuits from both local and international service providers to bind their major operations together. For example, they may VPN over the standard Internet to hook up smaller remote offices. But such arrangements can inhibit business agility. They involve dealing with multiple vendors and telco-type operators some to provision the last mile into a remote office, and some to link corporate HQ with regional HQs in other parts of the world. They also involve managing a variety of different contracts, each with its own variable costs and SLAs, as well as a range of distinct technologies, each with its own set of tools, to deliver a desired end-to-end performance.   A better way With cloud cross-connect services from providers like Equinix or Megaport and last-mile services from Unitas Global, you can simplify your network connection complexities. Following the model of the Internet Exchanges, these types of service providers have interconnected facilities throughout the world. And they resell arbitraged capacity across their backbones in the form of virtual private circuits. Then, through RackConnect Global, you can get a point-and-click, self-service private network that connects your locations and most importantly the hyperscale cloud providers. This gives you multicloud connectivity that unifies your entire hybrid environment.  As a result, you can: Reduce the number of wide-area-network vendors you have to negotiate with Reduce your resource requirements to manage all the different connections Get point-and-click configuration flexibility Reduce the costs of connecting into the hyperscalers, with blended arbitraged costs across the network Remove your reliance on the Internet for connectivity, thereby enhancing security and availability Learn more about how RackConnect Global makes it possible to securely connect your locations and clouds.    Why network connectivity is key to successfully running your modern multicloudMany businesses still rely on private networks to connect their locations and data centers. But the complexity involved can stifle business agility. Heres a better way to connect your locations and clouds, without the burdens. Unify your multicloud environments/cloud-connectivity/rackconnect/globalLearn how Cloud InsightsMichael LevyWhy network connectivity is key to successfully running your modern multicloudAugust 6, 2021 Teaser FlagBlogInsights ImageRelated-Insights-Image-480x360.jpgSolutions TaxonomyMulticloudPlatforms TaxonomyRackConnect Global

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Three steps to launching your multicloud strategy

2020-09-09 01:45:45| The Webmail Blog

Three steps to launching your multicloud strategy nellmarie.colman Tue, 09/08/2020 - 18:45   Whether by design or by default, most businesses today rely on multiple clouds. Theyre extending beyond their on-premises data center environments and adopting private clouds, hyperscale public clouds, cloud-based SaaS applications and even colocation environments. The end result is a unique multicloud environment. Ideally, your multicloud is custom designed to meet your businesss specific needs. But without a multicloud strategy, its more likely to be a jumble of technologies that can quickly grow out of your control leading to overspending and security vulnerabilities. No matter where you are on your multicloud journey, its not too late to take a strategic approach. Done right, you can still reap all the benefits of the multicloud. You can be one of the 75% of midsize and large organizations who are expected to adopt a multicloud strategy by 2021. So, where should you start? We recommend three steps:   Step 1: Establish your goals When developing your multicloud strategy, its important to focus on the ultimate problem your business needs to resolve. Perhaps you need to deliver superior customer experiences, or accelerate delivery of products and services, or keep prices low. Whatever your target business outcome is, keep it front-and-center throughout the process.   Step 2: Know your current state Next, its time to thoroughly assess your existing environment. Everything from your in-house capabilities, processes, technology and toolsets, to even your culture its all worth looking at. You should also make note of interdependencies among applications, your current and projected TCO, and opportunities for system modernization and architecture improvement. (This may sound daunting, and it can be. But we have experts who can help you fully assess your current environment.)   Step 3: Find the right home for each workload Now that you know where you are, and where you want to be, its time to start sketching out possible paths to get there. And that means looking at each workload and identifying where it should live whether it should stay in your on-premises data center, be replaced with a SaaS solution, move to a public cloud or a private cloud, or perhaps be retired altogether. The best way to do this is with a Cloud Decision Management Process (CDMP) which involves using a decision-tree (yes/no) approach to match each workload to its best-fit platform. Weve outlined the CDMP process for you over on the Rackspace Technology Technical Blog, where we discuss workload filtering, filtering questions and platform evaluation criteria, as well as key dependences and best practices.     Take your next step toward multicloud success Interested in diving deeper into multicloud strategy? Check out our 2020 Cloud Strategy Workbook, which walks you through five critical elements to your cloud strategy and provides access to templates and examples that can guide you on your journey.   Three steps to launching your multicloud strategyJump-start your multicloud strategy and discover how a Cloud Decision Management Process can organize the process. Start planning your multicloud strategy./lp/2020-cloud-strategy-workbookDownload workbook Managed Multi-CloudProfessional ServicesCloud InsightsWilfred WahThree steps to launching your multicloud strategySeptember 8, 2020

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