Accelerating Digital Transformation with an integrated hybrid multi-cloud strategy

Currently most of the organizations across the industry verticals are trying to be more innovative and build digital platforms to better respond to customers as well as dynamic market changes. They are expanding their usage of cloud to maintain their competitive advantages, accelerate the innovation and transform interactions with customers, employees, and partners. So, the Hybrid Multi-Cloud strategy is a major driving factor in enabling digital transformation as migrating to the cloud involves technical, operational, and cultural changes in an organization. A hybrid multi-cloud Approach ensures flexibility, Agility, inclusive and Sustainability considering ever changing customers unresolved business needs or make seems customers’ journey. The Hybrid Multi-cloud architecture empowers organizations to distribute their workloads across multiple cloud environments so they can get the biggest bang for their buck while mitigating risks associated with individual cloud environments.

Hybrid Multi-cloud is a very popular cloud implementation strategy consisting of at least one private cloud and two or more public cloud architecture. The Hybrid Multi-Cloud Architecture avoids vendor Lock-in and achieve global regulatory compliance. It also guarantees agility, interoperability, and flexibility between different cloud environments. The advancements in the field of RESTful APIs, containers & Kubernete platforms have helped in modernizing legacy applications and increased the popularity of hybrid multi-cloud strategies.

Every cloud is built differently by talking care critical issues with existing cloud service offerings and future market demands. These differences not only cover physical foundation components like compute, network, storage and database but also enclose a diverse range of features, functionality, pricing or cost models and policies, among other aspects. Different vendors offer integration and support for different platforms and constantly change the capabilities they have to offer.

The right fit is therefore determined about individual metrics for individual apps and for individual application workload needs. The Hybrid Multi-cloud infrastructure empower customers to maintain a flexible cloud environment that enables a combination of Scalability, Security, Portability, and cost savings without compromising the performance at the same time. Therefore, a multi-cloud strategy adoption not only enables your business to acquire SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS solutions that suit your custom needs and demands but also its better response to your future business scenarios. 

A hybrid multi-cloud strategy guarantee security for sensitive data storing & sharing and allows business teams to select different cloud services from different cloud service providers because some are better service offerings then others. Digital transformation is a subset of Business Transformation and it’s the process of using digital technologies to create new or modify existing business processes, adopting or upgrading data platforms and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements.

The need for the adopting emerging technology is the ultimate strategy for larger enterprises to do POC, MVPs and reduce time to market for production releases of their products by adopting cloud platform services mainly Data driven AI power services. A Hybrid multi-Cloud helps businesses go from CapEx (capital expenditure) to OpEx (operational expenditure) Model and help us to work with latest emerging technology solutions within days as considering using data center takes few months. Many cloud providers are developing unique digital platforms and solutions to challenges in the public cloud market that you can access easily in a hybrid multi-cloud environment setup. so overall a multi-cloud strategy can help you to fast-track the cloud led digital transformation journey.

There are plenty of use cases but here I have given couple of use case where an organization needs advanced AI/ML/DL capabilities of Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft M365, or Azure Active Directory from Microsoft Azure and Compute Service from AWS. In this scenario it’s good to go with a hybrid multi-cloud strategy to get the best of breed services from all these public cloud service providers. Another use case is when your organization having sensitive data that can only store in a private cloud while you still need the capabilities like scalability or HADR features of a public cloud service. So, in this case you must consider go with a hybrid cloud architecture.

The article has been written by Dr Rabi who is currently working as a CTO at Crayon India, Bangalore