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A path to transformational change

Rajalakshmi Srinivasan - Director, Site24x7, explains the importance of a cloud migration roadmap and why cloud-native is going to be a force to be reckoned with.

What are the top cloud trends to watch out for this year? With cloud adoption rates increasing in organisations of all sizes, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments are gaining prominence. The future will favour serverless applications and Function-as-a-Service solutions. Cloud environments provide elasticity and pay-as-you-scale models, which greatly benefits serverless architectures.

The trend could shift from organisations migrating to the cloud to them building their own cloud-native applications. Deploying cloud-native apps on Kubernetes and other containerised infrastructures will be inevitable when adopting the latest trends. Additionally, as the amount of data extracted for meaningful insights increases over time, AIOps will play a significant role in proactive monitoring.

How can you help your clients to monitor their multi-cloud environments? Businesses are not restricted to single-cloud environments. Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments are here to stay. Third-party tools often play a major role in monitoring and managing these environments. Data analysis and correlation are important aspects of any IT infrastructure monitoring tool. However, correlating data in silos across multiple tools that monitor the multicloud environment can be a real challenge. This is why using a single tool that consolidates metrics from various environments and provides meaningful insight in a unified dashboard is a major advantage.

Another way to effectively monitor multi-cloud environments is to leverage AI to proactively provide smart alerting and reporting to prevent issues from affecting the end user’s digital experience.

Cloud cost management is a challenge for many CIOs. What can IT leaders do to avoid cost overrun? Use a cloud cost management tool that can monitor resource utilisation. This will help you to understand overutilised and underutilised resources. Allocate budgets and track consumption by region, data type, resource type, and data transfer, and more. The tool should also help break down spending and drive cost accountability across your business units.

What are your tips for CIOs looking to migrate their workloads to cloud environments? Since business environments and their challenges are unique, the requirements when migrating to the cloud vary for each organisation. Migrating to the cloud isn’t just about workloads and operations; it requires an organisational and cultural shift for both your internal system and your customers. A few points to consider while migrating are: 1. Take it one step at a time. 2. Don’t move your entire workload at once. 3. Move it in stages so your end users are not adversely affected 4. Use current cloud technologies instead of legacy ones so your cloud adoption will be quicker, easier, and more secure. 5. Move your day-to-day workload to the cloud to gain visibility into real-time issues. This will give you enough room to address problems before your customers are affected.