Enterprise Cloud & CIOs: Does Your Cloud First Adoption Strategy Making Your Enterprise IT Fragile? Yes, Dear CIOs, you read it right. Does the realm of Cloud Computing and mandate of Cloud First as a Enterprise Cloud Adoption strategy is progressing to make a dent on the real benefits of cloud adoption? Others might have taken Cloud as technology shift but I believe CFOs were clear and expected that Cloud can bring in a fundamental change in how IT is going to be made available to the organization and will bring effective IT Cost Management.
On one hand where Software as a Service is relatively simpler to manage than Infrastructure as a Service, Multi-Cloud adoption of Cloud Infrastructure has added multi-fold complexity to manage. To migrate on the cloud, enterprises have lifted and shifted most of the workloads rather than refactoring them first. Private cloud was an extension of virtualization but real cost benefits were out of using a public cloud. The possibility of workload portability led to adopting multiple cloud providers. In fact, the Multi-Cloud journey helped enterprises up to a large extent due to the placement of workload in the right cloud environment and avoid vendor lockin. These all were the right decisions taken but in due course, it led to a very fragile environment because the outcome was not as per expected financial benefits. Truth is Multi-Cloud is a solution if it is better managed in all aspects like security, ease of deployment, resource management, and Cost optimization. So enterprises how do you achieve that? The most searchable answer is to use the Cloud Management Platform. However is that sufficient? The best answer is using the Cloud Management Platform having cloud brokering capability. Gartner also says the same; refer Gartner Cloud Management Wheel published in 2018.