Multicloud Complexity to Multicloud Coherency

02/02/23 • 37 min

In this episode of the CCS Insight podcast, James Sanders, Principal Analyst of Cloud and Infrastructure at CCS Insight, is joined by VMware's Amanda Blevins, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Americas, and Richard Munro from the Office of the CTO for Strategy and Operations. Clive Howard, CTO for Huozhi and associate analyst at CCS Insight, also joined the discussion.

Multicloud deployments have become increasingly common in the past few years, with our Senior Leadership IT Investment Survey, 2022 finding that three-quarters of enterprises are using more than one cloud provider, up from 55% in our 2021 survey. Whether this be an intentional move or the product of acquisitions, mergers or trials, organizations can experience challenges in managing and securing their workloads correctly.

The discussion unpacks the main challenges that organizations face in supporting a multicloud architecture, touching on problems with training and hiring talent for specific technology services and business plans. The experts also highlight the correct organizational and operational approaches to delivering a multicloud strategy and how it can be implemented successfully, reviewing existing cloud services and providing internal customers with flexibility while maintaining control.

The podcast offers strategic guidance for a range of difficulties faced in a multicloud environment, including:

Combining the benefits of a single multicloud service offering with those of individual proprietary cloud services
Exercising spending control through areas like cloud financial operations and compliance with security, quotas and business policies
Reducing complexity in multicloud environments by determining if a best-of-breed service is necessary to solve business challenges.

The podcast offers strategic guidance for a range of difficulties faced in a multicloud environment, including:

Combining the benefits of a single multicloud service offering with those of individual proprietary cloud services
Exercising spending control through areas like cloud financial operations and compliance with security, quotas and business policies
Reducing complexity in multicloud environments by determining if a best-of-breed service is necessary to solve business challenges.

Previous Episode

Golden Rules for Multicloud Delivery

In this episode of the CCS Insight podcast, Bola Rotibi, Research Director for Software Development at CCS Insight, explores important considerations for successful multicloud management and support. She is joined by VMware's Betty Junod, Senior Director of Multicloud Solutions Marketing, and Mark Leake, Director of Product Marketing. Clive Howard, Chief Technology Officer at Huozhi, a provider
of a humanitarian fintech platform, and associate analyst with CCS Insight, also joined the podcast discussion.

The experts discuss strategic and tactical guidance in supporting multicloud operations, covering topics such as:

Choosing the right cloud for different teams and business units, and getting the most value for business goals
Common traps when managing a multicloud environment, and tactics to avoid them, such as with abstraction, service catalogues and tooling
Opportunities with multicloud operations, including benefits of using edge computing, the role that artificial intelligence will play in dealing with complexity and automation, and the importance of a cloud-native culture.

The full transcript is available here: https://ccsinsight.link/3lSPFGK

Click on the links below to read more on this topic:

ccsinsight.com/blog/navigating-the-multicloud-spectrum/
ccsinsight.com/blog/the-keys-that-unlock-multicloud-success/

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Java's Future in the Cloud

Since the 1990s, Java has become one of the most popular programming languages and an established technology for enterprise development. However, despite this history and the role it played in the beginning of the Internet, Java is not always seen as an instrumental technology in the cloud.

For our latest podcast episode, Bola Rotibi, Chief of Enterprise Research at CCS Insight, talks to Ian Robinson, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer of the IBM Application Platform. Ian has more than 25 years of experience working in distributed enterprise computing and is responsible for the technical strategy of IBM Application Platform technologies including WebSphere, Liberty and Java. Clive Howard, Chief Technology Officer at Huozhi, a provider of a humanitarian fintech platform, and associate analyst with CCS Insight, also joined the podcast discussion.

Our discussion touched on the importance of Java in the early days of the Internet and how this may translate to its place in the cloud, looking at some of the initiatives that IBM has put together to make the coding language relevant for cloud operations.

The podcast also offers listeners strategic guidance on the topic, such as:

How to harness existing software development teams with specific skills and experience using Java in the transition to the cloud.
Finding opportunities to innovate and overcome the challenges facing Java's future in the cloud, such as taking advantage of the cloud to optimize existing workloads in Java.
The importance of these initiatives to leading technical roles from a business perspective, for example, reusing existing skills, teams and technologies to make the cloud more efficient and cheaper.