There are many advantages of multi-cloud adoption for your enterprise. Deploying multiple cloud environments instead of relying on a single cloud platform for all operations helps with better workloads transfers, risk mitigation, and redundancy.
Companies are also considering a multi-cloud strategy for its innovative possibilities and increased agility and flexibility. You can choose from a bigger pool of vendors and have the freedom to allocate resources accordingly.
Whatever the main reason for multi-cloud adoption, planning is non-negotiable to succeed in a multi-cloud environment. Here is how to start:
1. Prepare your data for multi-cloud
If your business is transitioning to a multi-cloud environment, the first step is to align your data management plan with the multi-cloud strategy goals. Ensure that all data is accessible to collect, store, transfer and use across multiple clouds. Design all system for this purpose: to enable data to move freely across multi-cloud.
2. Integrate app data with cloud services
A multi-cloud platform is likely to pull data gathered from multiple sources, from on-premise applications to cloud services. Determine how to position and move each workload to integrate data from your applications with cloud services from the start. Choose applications designed for multi-cloud environments.
3. Leverage hybrid or multi-cloud solutions
Leveraging multi-cloud solutions proves difficult without a proper IT strategy in place. Getting the most out of the multi-cloud will require a coordinated effort and an integral approach to IT systems implementation. Ensure your cloud management strategy can support the deployment of all the necessary infrastructure resources and application services in the multi-cloud environment.
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