April, 20208 IN MYV EWIt is a high priority for any sized business, to accelerate their innovation and mitigate time-to-market to meet their customer needs and fend off the competition. These organizations are seeking to leverage cloud technology where the most prominent advantage of the cloud computing environment is the expenditure and scalability. This solution is highly cost-effective and can have a strategic position. Rather than spending high prices for various hardware and software, business will acquire all your processing power and storage in one place making use of a mixture of platforms, which are safe and secure. Moreover, they are provisioned and scalable, leading to elastic computing. However, current on-premise investments and many proprietary applications have hindered the cloud migration. Business moves gradually to adopt two computing models to complement and balance with their existing investment, which is Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud.The hybrid cloud has become a favorite solution and tool for thousands of companies that require different cloud solutions for various tasks. This type of cloud solution makes use of both public and private cloud for one organization. The public cloud is used for less valuable or security-demanding projects, while the private cloud for processing sensitive data or other projects, such as customer information and payment information. For any cloud-aspiring or already cloud-intensive enterprise, a hybrid cloud strategy comes down to finding the right collection of cloud technologies and orchestration tools that make the organization faster and more efficient.According to recent research, 61 percent of enterprises now use two or more public clouds, and 35 percent use four or more public clouds. Not every cloud service provider can perfectly match their best capabilities with business needs, leaving spaces for enterprises to use more than one cloud environment from different providers, coined as multi-cloud.The ChallengesHybrid cloud is beyond mere technology practice ­ it's more about positioning your business in the competition. Hybrid cloud leverages business advantages that will keep enterprises ahead. The adoption unquestionably supports enterprises as they balance purchases with the need to expand and accelerate, but many businesses encounter difficulties as they race ahead to adopt a hybrid cloud. DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF A MULTI-CLOUD ENVIRONMENTBY FAISAL YAHYA, HEAD OF IT, PT IBS INSURANCE BROKING SERVICE
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