HYBRID IT
A hybrid approach: Achieving infrastructure cost optimisation Achieving infrastructure cost optimisation has become a business priority for many organisations around the world. The rapid growth in demand for digital services in recent years has forced companies to modernise their IT infrastructure and move to the cloud. Here, they were promised optimised costs, more agibility and efficient operations. BY TYTUS KUREK, PRODUCT MANAGER, CANONICAL
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IT TURNED OUT, however, that cloud migration is not that simple from an economic point of view. Many companies that initially enthusiastically embraced a cloud-based strategy and moved all their workloads to public clouds have experienced cost increases over time. According to the IDC Cloud Pulse 4Q19 Quarterly Summary, 85% of organisations are repatriating workloads from the cloud and back to on-premise, in order to regain control of their budgets and finally achieve long-term cost savings. Therefor, the search for cost optimised infrastructure continues, with hybrid/multi-cloud emerging as a popular architecture choice. According to 451 Research’s report about cloud trends in 2020, 62% of enterprises are pursuing a hybrid IT strategy. This approach leverages the best of public and private clouds, ensuring workloads always run where it makes most sense from the economical standpoint. But, how can businesses ensure they are choosing the right cloud approach for them?
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