Maximizing the Business Benefits of Multi-Cloud Adoption

Experts
reveal
that
by
2027,
cloud
adoption
will
be
mainstream,
with
90%
of
enterprises
implementing
some
kind
of
cloud
strategy.
What’s
key
is
that,
in
the
process,
the
cloud
won’t
just
be
a
technology
disruptor
—
it
will
be
a
business
disruptor. 

What
does
this
mean
for
your
business?
If
you
don’t
tackle
the
challenges
associated
with
cloud
adoption
today,
you
will
be
at
a
competitive
disadvantage
tomorrow. 

Cloud
services
can
present
a
huge
advantage
for
organizations
pursuing
digital
and
network
transformations.
Leaders
see
the
cloud
as
a
path
to
modernize
their
IT
infrastructure,
so
they
can
achieve
greater
flexibility
and
agility,
lower
costs
of
operations,
faster
time
to
market,
and
heightened
competitive
advantage
—
just
to
name
a
few.

However,
for
each
of
these
major
benefits,
there’s
also
an
inherent
set
of
obstacles.
Let’s
break
down
the
benefits
and
the
associated
roadblocks
that
can
derail
your
success:

1. 
   Greater
   flexibility.
   Cloud
   services
   can
   be
   accessed
   from
   pretty
   much
   anywhere
   there’s
   connectivity.
   However,
   this
   user
   flexibility
   adds
   proliferating
   complexity
   for
   the
   network
   operations
   (NetOps)
   teams
   responsible
   for
   tracking
   and
   managing
   user
   experiences.
   Quite
   simply,
   instead
   of
   managing
   a
   single
   network
   for
   an
   employee
   base
   of
   10,000,
   they’re
   now
   effectively
   managing
   10,000
   networks.

2. 
   More
   agility.
   Cloud
   services
   undoubtedly
   offer
   flexibility
   in
   deployment.
   However,
   these
   diverse
   services
   can
   vary
   substantially
   among
   cloud
   providers
   and
   they
   can
   be
   time
   consuming
   and
   expensive
   to
   manage.

3. 
   Lower
   costs
   of
   operations.
   While
   cloud
   providers
   can
   offer
   economies
   of
   scale,
   those
   advantages
   can
   quickly
   be
   eradicated
   if
   businesses
   incur
   costly
   outages
   and
   performance
   issues,
   and
   NetOps
   teams
   are
   saddled
   with
   lengthy
   troubleshooting
   efforts. 

4. 
   Faster
   time
   to
   market.
   Cloudservices
   can
   provide
   businesses
   with
   a
   faster
   way
   to
   monetize
   new
   market
   offerings.
   However,
   without
   an
   effective
   way
   to
   ensure
   optimized
   availability
   and
   service
   levels,
   launching
   these
   new
   offerings
   can
   simply
   be
   too
   risky. 

5. 
   Competitive
   advantage.
   All
   of
   the
   above
   advantages
   can
   translate
   to
   a
   competitive
   advantage
   —
   as
   long
   as
   there
   aren’t
   any
   failures.
   While
   cloud
   service
   providers
   may
   promise
   continuous,
   24×7
   availability,
   that’s
   not
   the
   reality.
   If
   you
   doubt
   that’s
   the
   case,
   I’d
   just
   point
   you
   to
   this
   article:
   
   The
   15
   Biggest
   Cloud
   Outages
   Of
   2022.

Luckily,
analysts
predict
that
over
the
next
five
years,
service
providers
will
offer
cloud-native
solutions
that
address
many
key
management
and
monitoring
challenges.
The
question
then
becomes,
do
you
wait
five
years
for
these
advancements,
or
do
you
look
for
a
solution
today?
The
reality
is
that
some
software
vendors
have
cracked
the
code
in
removing
the
blind
spots
associated
with
running
services
in
the
cloud. 

Here
are
the
top
five
capabilities
to
look
for:

1. High-scale,
   active
   testing
   that
   delivers
   end-to-end
   visibility,
   including
   beyond
   the
   edge
   of
   your
   enterprise
   network. 
2. Visibility
   into
   the
   impact
   of
   issues
   on
   users
   and
   application
   performance,
   enabling
   more
   intelligent
   prioritization
   and
   faster
   response.
3. Synthetic
   transaction
   monitoring
   that
   delivers
   increased
   visibility
   into
   application
   performance,
   and
   how
   it
   affects
   the
   overall
   user
   experience.
4. Trusted
   root
   cause
   analysis
   that
   enables
   your
   teams
   to
   identify
   the
   source
   of
   an
   issue,
   even
   if
   the
   problem
   arises
   in
   cloud,
   SaaS,
   or
   ISP
   networks. 
5. Actionable
   insights
   into
   cloud
   network
   performance
   metrics
   like
   voice/data
   loss,
   packet
   loss,
   latency,
   capacity,
   and
   more. 

With
these
insights,
your
NetOps
team
can
quickly
and
confidently
determine
where
the
issue
resides,
and
whether
it’s
the
responsibility
of
the
internal
team,
the
cloud
provider,
or
other
service
provider. 

Digital
transformation
success
depends
on
modern
architectures
like
cloud,
SaaS,
SD-WAN,
and
more.
However,
unless
you
have
full
visibility
into
the
performance
of
these
transformational
technologies,
your
user
experiences
will
suffer.
In
the
process,
your
brand
will
take
a
hit
and
your
competitive
advantage
won’t
be
an
advantage
for
long.

Learn
more

here.