Three’s a crowd: Is your cloud primed for success?

Grazed from DigitalNewsAsia.  Author: Martin Bishop.

IN an effort to capitalise on the benefits of cloud computing, early adopters turned to multiple cloud vendors to satisfy their various infrastructure needs. For instance, you may have been working with a customer relationship manager (CRM) specialist for hosting your customer insights, and a private cloud expert for financial data.
 
This approach delivered initial gains as IT leaders found their way in the cloud, but it is not conducive to long-term success.  Working with a variety of vendors can create complex environments that are hard to control, manage and integrate, while it can also lead to organisational silos, preventing collaboration and the easy transfer of data, limiting performance and the services delivered…

Encouragingly, recent Telstra research which surveyed 675 IT decision-makers from across the globe around the cloud services being used by their organisation, suggests businesses are increasingly realising this, with three-quarters of global businesses wanting to procure services from a single provider, compared to using three concurrently…

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