Managing Multi-Cloud Through the ‘By Design’ Approach
Dell's Kelsey Monaghan explains why agencies need to understand their workloads and which cloud makes sense to optimize those efforts. Key factors include portability between cloud providers and flexibility within those vendors.
First, very important to look at what we mean when we say multi-cloud. When we look at multi-cloud, we look at public, dedicated and edge-aligned deployments of a cloud operating model. And when we say we're looking at it by design, we're really talking about workload optimization and the ability to put the right workload in the right place across those three deployment models, and really extend that ability to provide cloud-native application portability and flexibility, and then to provide data layer consistency across that.
When we talk about multi-cloud by design, we're really talking about an ability to govern, right and provide workload flexibility across all those individual cloud deployments. So that consistency is really the underpinning of that by design methodology.
Some of the challenges that we're hearing are absolutely around proximity access and collaboration tool sets, but also around latency and the time-to-value discussion. So, some of those can be indicators around if a workload is really running the best place. Others can be, you know, around the application itself.
Is it legacy, has it been re platformed? And is it running in an environment where it's taking advantage of the best capability that an agency is paying for? So, you really can look at both that operational and financial discussion as well as that operational and technical capability: is a workload running in a place where it can utilize and really integrate with the necessary back end resources that it needs.