MultiCloud: Solution To

Increase IT Operational Efficiency

The use of cloud technology allows companies to store and manage data through any device connected to the internet network regardless of place and time. Cloud technology offers convenience in increasing work efficiency. However, the use of only one type of cloud technology is often unable to support rapid business growth. Therefore, a new innovation has emerged to combine cloud services from various cloud vendors, namely multicloud.

Multicloud is one of the cloud adoption strategies that uses several different cloud vendors to operate an application. In a fast-moving and competitive business environment, multicloud can be the best choice to strengthen a company’s IT infrastructure and ensure resilience in managing large amounts of data.

Learn more about what multicloud is, its advantages, and the challenges in its implementation.

What is Multicloud?

• Multicloud is a strategy of using cloud computing services from two or more cloud service providers or vendors to run an application or software. The main goal of a multicloud strategy is to align business needs with the cloud capabilities of each service provider. This strategy offers flexibility, increased performance, and infrastructure resilience while minimizing the risk of dependence on one cloud service provider.
• The use of multicloud is generally influenced by workload factors, business targets, and data governance needs. Multicloud strategy is beneficial for companies that want to optimize cloud infrastructure capabilities and have more freedom in choosing various cloud services that suit current business needs.

What is the Difference Between Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud?

• Multicloud and hybrid cloud are both cloud models that attempt to integrate more than one cloud service. However, the difference between the two lies in the type of cloud infrastructure that is combined.
• In a multicloud strategy, companies work with various providers or vendors that provide the same cloud services. So, multicloud can contain two or more public clouds or private clouds. Each cloud service manages different tasks and operates independently. Data storage can also be done in each of these cloud services, where each vendor is responsible for the security of its own infrastructure.
• Meanwhile, hybrid cloud can combine public and private clouds in an infrastructure that is connected by APIs, middleware, or containers. Hybrid cloud allows companies to operate their data storage. Therefore, hybrid cloud is often used to store sensitive company data.

What are the Benefits of Using Multicloud?

When cloud services from one vendor are less able to meet increasing business needs, multicloud can be the best solution to optimize the performance and flexibility of the company’s cloud infrastructure. Some of the benefits that can be felt from using multicloud are:

• Avoiding Vendor Lock-in

Vendor lock-in is a situation where a company is too dependent on one vendor and has difficulty switching to another vendor without additional costs or difficulty adapting. Multicloud can avoid this by utilizing cloud services from each different vendor. Companies can choose a cloud service that suits their business needs or move to another vendor without having to worry about disruptions in daily operations.

• Utilizing the Best Features of Each Cloud

Cloud services from each vendor certainly have their own advantages and disadvantages. With multicloud, companies can choose cloud services with certain features and capabilities to optimize work operations within the cloud architecture. Factors in selecting cloud services can include speed, performance, reliability, geographic location, and security.

• Saving Costs

Multicloud allows companies not to rely on just one vendor. So, companies can be freer to choose services that are more budget-friendly from each cloud vendor. The combination of prices from each different cloud vendor can be lower than having to rely on one vendor to meet cloud infrastructure needs.

• Minimizing Risk

Another advantage of multicloud is minimizing risk if cloud services experience disruption. Multicloud allows workloads to be distributed across different cloud platforms. If one cloud service experiences disruption, other cloud services are not necessarily affected by the disruption, so that work operations via the cloud can still be carried out optimally.

What are the Challenges in Multicloud Implementation?

Despite the advantages offered, multicloud implementation also has various challenges that are difficult for companies to handle. The challenges found in multicloud management are:

• Cloud services from different vendors certainly have different processes and technologies.

]This makes cloud management increasingly complex, especially if the company has just migrated the cloud to a different cloud environment such as multicloud. The complexity of multicloud also makes it difficult for IT teams to monitor cloud resources effectively.

• Security Issues

Cloud computing implementation involves a shared security model. This means that companies and cloud vendors share responsibility for certain aspects of cloud security. In a multicloud environment, each cloud vendor has its own security system. This risks creating gaps in the security system and increasing vulnerabilities in the cloud.

• Integration Issues

Multicloud combines several public or private clouds from different vendors. In this case, vendors can operate their clouds with different APIs, data formats, deployment models, and management tools. This condition can make it difficult for companies to integrate data from various cloud services used in multicloud.

• Skill Gap

Companies need trained and experienced experts who are able to manage and integrate various cloud services. The lack of experts will result in less than optimal operational performance and security risks. Therefore, it is important to provide training to employees to manage multi-cloud effectively, understand the features and limitations of each cloud service, and ensure easy management and data migration between cloud services.

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