The Multi-Cloud Conundrum: Choices, Challenges & Solutions

As organizations increasingly seek flexibility, performance, and strategic advantages in their cloud strategies, the percentage of public cloud users working with two or more cloud providers will continue to rise.

Despite its many advantages, the multi-cloud journey is often fraught with challenges. Organizations grapple with integration issues, data silos, security concerns, compliance headaches, and escalating costs. Throw in a diverse infrastructure mix, multiple cloud vendors, overall governance and observability issues, and deployment and lifecycle management complexities and we have an extremely complicated scenario. For telcos, deploying and management of solutions on remote edge infrastructures is essentially impossible through manual interventions.

Regardless of challenges, the imperative to adopt multi-cloud as a strategic go-to-market requirement – to build competitive applications and services – is increasingly evident. A holistic approach to cloud infrastructure set-up and application design ensures that organizations can leverage the best of what each cloud service has to offer, thereby maximizing their cloud investments while maintaining flexibility.