The presence of clouds has become the norm.
"We believe 2021 will be a watershed moment where, rather than just talking about cloud-first, enterprises will evolve toward having cloud everywhere," adds Mohan. "Building broad cloud strategies to ensure future flexibility and resiliency will be a big element of it."
Of fact, as Mohan and other industry experts point out, transferring applications from on-premises architecture to multiple public or private clouds is neither inexpensive nor simple. It requires time and money, which smaller businesses don't always have, especially during a downturn. However, this circumstance is increasingly assisting in the argument for this investment.
While almost all (97 percent) intended to disperse workloads over two or more clouds, most struggle to manage and protect multicloud and edge deployments, according to Volterra, a start-up focusing on distributed cloud services.
"As more technologies, such as AI, machine learning, and IoT, are deployed, apps and data are being stretched over many clouds and edge sites," says the report. It's critical to have an uniform operating experience at the edge, as well as in the public and private clouds. However, the data suggests that significant barriers exist, most notably in establishing safe and dependable connections across providers, navigating numerous support and consultation procedures, and working with diverse platform services."
Getting ready for the 'new economy'
Many firms wrap their cloud and multicloud activities under the umbrella of bigger digital transformation projects, according to Brian Solis, global innovation advocate at Salesforce and a renowned expert and best-selling author on digital transformation and innovation. However, he claims that many of these initiatives have been halted or redirected as a result of the worldwide epidemic.
"Whatever the digital transformation strategy was before COVID-19 has been put on hold, postponed forever, or diverted," adds Solis. "We've entered what I refer to as "the novel economy," which will consist of three stages: surviving, striving to survive, and lastly aspiring to flourish. Most firms are still in survival mode today, so IT is gathering cross-functional company owners and asking, "What are the things we absolutely have to have right now?" As we emerge from the crisis, investments in cloud and multicloud will pick up, but the trajectory of those investments will be determined by specific demands now and in the near future."
Multicloud strategies are becoming much more important.
Alexey Gerasimov, vice president of global cloud delivery at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), agrees, stating that having a cloud strategy that is matched to what a company wants to achieve in present or predicted economic conditions is crucial. COVID-19 emphasises this point even more.
"Regardless of whether it's a public or private cloud," he adds, "you have to start with the overall company goal and then look at the IT strategy that will help you achieve it." "I'm not sure COVID-19 is forcing people to migrate to the cloud, but it is definitely making them more aware of the need and opportunity to manage IT more effectively and strike the correct balance between cloud and on-premises installations." Only a few companies, including the most well-known public cloud providers, operate wholly on the cloud. As the economy struggles, it's becoming even more critical to think about what should be kept local and what can be done on the public cloud to save money, enhance agility, and create income.
Third-party services have a lot of value.
Experts say it also requires skills that many firms just lack. In fact, 77 percent of business and SMB respondents mentioned a lack of resources and experience as one of their top cloud concerns in a Flexera poll conducted before coronavirus quarantines were implemented. Other issues included security (81 percent), managing cloud spend (79 percent), and governance (77 percent).
"With employees working from home and an increasing number of business interactions going digital," according to Flexera CEO Jim Ryan in a statement, "more than half of enterprise respondents (in our survey) said their cloud usage will be higher than originally planned at the beginning of the year due to the pandemic." "Companies intend to move more services to the cloud, but their cloud budgets are already being exceeded. To maintain operational efficiency, they will need to focus on workload optimization as they transition, as well as cost control and governance."
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