For most businesses, adopting a multicloud architecture is not a matter of if but when for. Analysts estimate that 76% of companies are using two or more public clouds with 2.3 clouds in use on average.
In a CIO Exchange event hosted by Oracle CIO Jae Evans, global IT leaders and peers discussed what success looks like for multicloud and hybrid environment strategies. For quick takeaways from the event, continue reading, or read the full event brief, Optimizing your multicloud and hybrid strategy.
Plan to address multicloud adoption hurdles early
Identifying potential challenges early in your cloud adoption process can help prepare you for a smoother migration. During the CIO Exchange event, the following strategies were identified as ways to prepare for your transition to a multicloud or hybrid environment:
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Take stock of your ecosystem
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Prepare for complexity
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Right size implementations
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Create consistent, repeatable migration processes
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Support new skills development
To learn more of strategies for multicloud adoption, read the brief in full.
Continually optimize your cloud environment
Moving your workloads to the cloud is only the first step is realizing the benefits of your multicloud or hybrid strategy. Elias Khanser, chief of research at EK Media Group, says, “it’s not just getting to the cloud, but continuously try to figure out how to optimize what you put in the cloud.”
To optimize your cloud environment, consider the following options:
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Using the lift-and-shift method as a starting point to realize early foundational benefits
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Quickly iterating to maturity by continually modernizing workloads once in the cloud
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Bridging the gap between providers by using interconnect capabilities
To learn more about considerations for optimizing your cloud environment, read the brief.
Choose your multicloud partners carefully
Identifying your organization’s cloud needs and choosing the right cloud providers for those needs are important initial steps to getting the full value from a multicloud approach.
At Oracle, we know that in the cloud, one size does not fit all. That’s why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a comprehensive set of multicloud solutions in the form of specialized deployments, database services, extensive monitoring capabilities, and strategic partnerships. Start exploring OCI today with Oracle Cloud Free Tier.
For more information, read the brief, Read the brief: Optimizing your multicloud and hybrid strategy.
