The trend toward digital transformation is unbroken. Organizations of all stripes want to tap the added value of data and position themselves for the future. The effects of this (no longer so) new business maxim are being felt above all by IT. New applications and new platforms are moving into the company, and at the same time, existing IT assets are also being tested for their future viability.
IT managers must create the basis for the business of the future − without the additional IT complexity slowing them down. The analysts conclude that many enterprises are in a state of what they call cloud chaos: Cloud value propositions such as speed and innovation are lost in the transformation: CIOs report that creating new apps becomes very slow and cumbersome, managing of the entire app portfolio across different clouds becomes difficult and expensive.
This is not a surprise because every cloud must be managed with proprietary tools. Multi-cloud only succeeds when companies take a consistent, intelligent approach. This must consider key areas such as DevOps, cybersecurity, cost management, data management and data sovereignty.
The goal of any multi-cloud journey must be smart cloud usage. Applications must find the optimal (cloud) platform in this target picture based on their requirements. Only then will the benefits of cloud computing be leveraged. A cloud smart strategy of this kind creates a framework and allows IT managers to master the complexity of the multi-cloud landscape and use it efficiently.
However, smart cloud use is not yet a reality. Only just under a fifth of all companies are already "cloud-smart". Take this brief survey and learn to build such an intelligent multi-cloud architecture.