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Most companies also use several public cloud service providers. This reduces reliance on a single vendor, allows the company to take advantage of each provider’s relative strengths, and allows for cloud use and cost optimization. However, the more cloud services a company uses, the more difficult it is to keep track of them. Through offering a centralized management framework that connects with other tools, multi-cloud management strategies and solutions aim to simplify and streamline management.
What are the benefits of multicloud management?
- Reduced Strain on IT teams: A multi-cloud management solution allows IT teams to manage applications and workloads across different clouds more efficiently by providing streamlined, unified management.
- Visibility: In a complex environment comprising multiple cloud providers, it’s challenging to keep track of workloads and know what’s running where without multicloud management. For companies to enjoy multi-cloud benefits, a successful multi-cloud management solution must have visibility across the entire multi-cloud environment.
- Security: It’s challenging to maintain consistency in security policies across cloud providers, and the difficulty of multi-cloud can lead to security holes and an increased attack surface. IT teams should deal with possible security problems proactively rather than reactively using a managed approach. Furthermore, the best multicloud management platforms provide security monitoring and automation and the ability to implement security policies across platforms, making it easier to keep your environment secure.
How can we help?
With two decades of experience in managing complex hybrid cloud footprints encapsulated, our UnityOne solution is a SaaS Hybrid Multicloud Management Platform for managing real hybrid cloud environments like data center cabinets, power distribution units (PDUs), bare-metal servers, networking devices, containers pods, mesh services, and serverless, across data centers, private clouds (VMware, Hyper-V, and OpenStack), and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI). The customers get a seamless experience managing the entire hybrid cloud infrastructure using the integrated monitoring, visualization, management, auditing, and modern DevOps automation capabilities.
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The fact that hybrid cloud and multicloud are often used interchangeably adds to the confusion. While it may seem to be a semantic distinction, there is a fundamental difference between the two, and we assume that as multi-cloud models become the norm, the distinction will become much more relevant.
What is Multicloud?
In a multicloud solution, an organization uses a range of public cloud services from various providers. To achieve best-of-breed results or minimize vendor lock-in, multiple clouds can be used for various tasks. This represents the acknowledgment that not all clouds are the same. Marketing and sales, for example, are likely to have different needs than Software Development or Research and Development, and various cloud technologies will better meet those needs.
What is Hybrid Cloud?
A hybrid cloud is a solution that combines a private cloud with one or more public cloud services, with proprietary software allowing each service to communicate with the other. A hybrid cloud strategy will enable companies more flexibility by allowing them to switch workloads between cloud solutions as their needs and costs change.
This differs from multi-cloud in two main ways:
Multicloud typically includes several public clouds and has the physical and virtual infrastructure (including private clouds.), while hybrid always comprises private and public clouds.
In contrast to a multi-cloud model, where different clouds are used for other purposes, a hybrid cloud’s components usually collaborate. As a result, in a hybrid environment, data and processes appear to intermingle and intersect, while in a multi-cloud environment, usage usually stays in its “own” cloud’s silo.
How can we help?
Looking for a solution that can help you handle, instead of amplifying, multi-cloud uncertainty. To assess your specific IT complexities, contact us to discuss your environment and help you decide the best mix of cloud services and management tools to effectively manage your multicloud environment.
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