CIOs of global enterprises have to carry out precarious juggling acts within the cloud environment. Majority of public cloud operators claim that their services render lesser downtime as compared to in-house IT. This comprises of a potential to affect millions of end-users across the globe.
Forrester, an autonomous technology and market research company, has recently predicted that leading cloud providers will make more profit from cloud than from on-premise software. In the Forrester report ‘The days of fighting the cloud are over’, Analyst James Staten advised CIOs to evaluate strategies to attain application integration.
As a preparation for cloud failure, the best suggested solution is to migrate in-house IT services across multiple cloud providers. This would not only minimise disruptions during an event of failure, but also would allow the company situation to remain ambiguous.
For the records, migration of IT services onto public cloud allows organisations to leverage lower IT infrastructure costs. Other advantages such as freed up resources within the company’s own datacentre allows a business to cater to on-demand requests.
While the demand for easily transferable workloads keeps mounting, best services must be readily available across multiple public cloud providers. Only then end users can cherry-pick the best service. Furthermore, analysts have suggested that CIOs and IT managers must be ready to face downtime and as an alternative, emphasise on backup plans. This can be covered as a part of the SLA (service level agreement) so that complexities can be juggled to prioritise high availability within an IT infrastructure.