For organizations seeking to optimize cloud infrastructure capabilities and spending, a multicloud deployment can be a best-of-all-worlds approach. This configuration allows organizations to deploy workloads across multiple cloud providers. Ideally, the clouds offer interoperability and connectivity to ensure that users can easily interconnect them. However, this capability offers one of the most important challenges in setting up a successful multicloud deployment.
Cloud database services offer companies performance advantages over developing and operating database systems in their own data center. However, while organizations embrace the scalability and agility of the cloud, many are apprehensive about getting locked in with a provider that can’t meet every need in the long term.
Here, multicloud has advantages. Taking a multicloud approach provides organizations with benefits such as easier migration, greater scalability and agility, robust disaster recovery, the ability to access unique capabilities offered by different cloud providers, and the advantage of competitive pricing for services. Organizations can also reduce reliance on a single cloud provider, increasing portability between providers, and strengthening business continuity and disaster recovery.
Selecting the right cloud providers for your multicloud strategy
76% of companies are adopting multicloud and hybrid deployment approaches. Multicloud can refer to any deployment of multiple software- or platform-as-a-service (SaaS or PaaS) cloud offerings, but usually describes a mix of public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments.
According to Omdia, 52% of cloud adopters were affected by an inability to move workloads between clouds. Partnering with cloud providers that support an open cloud approach can help your organization more quickly adopt and realize the benefits of multicloud in your cloud strategy.
Multicloud versus hybrid environment architectures
While a multicloud approach has many inherent benefits, building a multicloud architecture requires careful planning to avoid complexity.
Complications can sometimes begin with the proposition of storing data in the public cloud. When data is stored in the public cloud, organizations might be concerned about the increased risks of unauthorized access or disclosure, depending on the specific cloud service. This situation often occurs with sensitive, highly regulated data, such as personal health or financial information.
For on-premises-to-cloud migration, most organizations tend to deploy one of two architectures. The first is a hybrid environment, meaning one that enables secure data sharing together with an on-premises database and a database in the cloud. The second is multicloud, which distributes data sharing across two or more cloud providers. Because every workload is unique to each business, every multicloud strategy must be adapted to the specific needs of the organization.
Define choosing the right multicloud strategy by each overall business requirement. The following sections expand on different types of environments and deployment options your organization can consider.
Multicloud
Multicloud is different from and can be complementary to hybrid environments. While hybrid environments consist of private and public solutions, multicloud utilizes and combines cloud services from multiple public cloud providers.
Hybrid environment
A hybrid environment uses a combination of on-premises hardware and cloud hosting. Hybrid environments enable development, execution, and governance connecting any combination of on-premises and cloud processes, services, applications, and data within individual or across multiple applications.
Oracle autonomous deployment options
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 to fit your organization’s needs. Among other capabilities, the Oracle-Azure Interconnect provides organizations with a simple path to a multicloud environment.
Customers
TIM Brazil is one of the first telecommunications companies in the country to move 100% of its workloads to the cloud. As part of as part of its multi-faceted modernization project, TIM Brazil uses Oracle and Microsoft clouds to improve customer support and for billing, collection, and management applications. With the adoption of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure, TIM Brazil is moving its mission-critical applications to the cloud, optimizing and simplifying management of its IT infrastructure, and improving scalability and agility to support changing business demands.
To learn more about Oracle’s multicloud approach, visit Oracle Multicloud.