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Given how prevalent it is, you might be forgiven for thinking that everything is in thecloudtoday.
In short, the cloud is mature, but nowhere near universal.
Multi-Cloud Evangelist at OVHcloud.
Clouds mature era: The benefits
The main benefits of cloud are well-understood.
This is largely for two reasons: firstly, most cloud providers offersecurityat scale.
However, migrating to the cloud is a difficult journey.
In fact, half of IT decision-makers say that migration was more complex than expected.
Lets look at some of these challenges.
That said, there are a number of pitfalls common to most migrations.
Handling this complexity is probably one of the most difficult parts of moving to cloud.
Every organization has a different technology estate with its own restrictions, policies and stakeholder preferences.
This makes the initial preparation and profiling of the business doubly crucial.
Finally, without meaning to compound the issue, most organizations today use more than one cloud.
In many ways, this makes a lot of sense.
Different clouds suit different purposes and workloads.
Security:Know your data.
Interoperability:If youre running connected multi-clouds, they need to operate well with each other.
If theres going to be a lag, thatll delay the project.
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Once a cloudmigrationis successfully completed and the pitfalls navigated, the journey is rarely over.
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