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What are some of the pitfalls of multicloud ? Where there are positives , you can usually find negatives – and multicloud solutions are not exempt from this . While there are a number of benefits that businesses and individuals can take advantage of , central management is absolutely key ; without it , chaos ensues .
“ The volume of enterprises using different clouds often creates an unwieldy , de facto multi-cloud environment . As organisations migrate more operations to the cloud and use containers and Kubernetes , managing these to ensure consistent security and compliance is becoming increasingly challenging ,” says Entrust ’ s Tambay .
The core issue with multicloud strategies is that the infrastructure forming different vendors ’ cloud platforms is often inconsistent in terms of standards , functionality and compliance – teams may , for example , work in silos , different platforms may vary in speed when responding to queries and problems , or there may be a lack of consistent , efficient tools , exposing security gaps while increasing costs .
And , with an ever-changing app landscape , such cloud platforms must be designed to support the growing complexity of both existing and new application architectures – currently , only 21 % of IT leaders feel fully confident that their current infrastructure can support such growth . This growth means that security compliance will be even harder to maintain , as it needs to be factored into every decision and functionality change made , potentially increasing the attack surface and exposing holes .
Multicloud – the next generation Multicloud technology has both pros and cons , but , with a study conducted by Forrester Consulting suggesting that 83 % of organisations have already adopted a
74 July 2022