Are you ready to embrace
a multi-cloud reality?
When the advertising at train stations or on the side
of every other taxi is talking about the importance
of cloud computing and its business benefits, trying
to decide the best combination of cloud solutions to
manage the variety of data sets, critical workloads,
applications and emerging technologies, such as AI,
Internet of Things or blockchain, can be confusing.
According to Gartner, enterprise IT spending for
cloud-based offerings will grow faster than tradi-
tional (non-cloud) IT offerings through 2022. By
2022, cloud shift across key enterprise IT markets
will increase to 28%, up from 19% in 2018 and
organisations without a cloud-first strategy where
the cloud is primary, prioritised and promoted, will
likely fall behind competitors.
As well as this groundswell towards the cloud,
today’s CIOs are increasingly recognising that sin-
gle provider cloud solutions are less-and-less fit
for purpose when it comes to addressing the data
challenges of today, and the demanding business
requirements of tomorrow. To put this into context,
a recent IDC study found that the volume of data on
earth is predicted to increase from 33 Zettabytes
(ZB), in 2018 to 175ZB by 2025, half of which will
be stored in public cloud storage.
It can be challenging enough to manage terabytes
of data across multiple environments with one
cloud provider, just imagine doing this with zetta-
bytes of disparate data sets, across multiple cloud
providers all offering variations of private, public,
hybrid environments and different SLAs to boot.
People aside, data has become the most important
asset for organisations operating in today’s digital
economy. The shift to cloud has been an underlying
enabler for the digital transformation boom of the
last decade, but a bi-product of this (increasingly
multi-cloud), shift has been unprecedented chal-
lenges to manage, use and secure data.Data responsibility is one of the central challenges
that organisations now face today, but most often,
traditional tools simply don’t cut it when it comes
to handling workloads across different cloud en-
vironments or multiple platforms. While there are
plenty of niche solutions that work well enough
in specific environments, surely this single-use
approach actually encourages vendor lock-in and
increases complexity rather than solving it?
By minimising the risk of cloud provider lock-in;
providing service resiliency and migration opportu-
nities; and offering the benefits of agility, scalability
and elasticity along the way, hybrid and multi-cloud
approaches are no longer a matter of if, rather a
matter of when. And, this in turn has fuelled the
need for data management solutions that can ensure
data is protected and managed across whatever
platform or variety of cloud infrastructure it lives in.
In a multi-cloud, hybrid environment, where change
is the only true constant, an organisation’s ability
to protect data, move it around freely, recover it
and have a single view of its data assets is critical
to its future success. Whether you’ve yet to begin
or have already started your cloud migration roadmap,
working with the right partners can accelerate your
journey to the cloud and, at the same time, empow-
er your business to stay ahead of the competition.
At Commvault, we love what we do. And we love
working with Accenture. The Accenture Cloud In-
novation Center, coupled with our best-in-class fea-
tures and functionality, we’ve got all your questions
and needs covered when it comes to delivering
a data management and cloud strategy fit for the
hybrid and multi-cloud world of tomorrow.By Gary Robinson, EMEA Director, Global System Integrators, CommvaultLEARN MORE