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Hybrid cloud-first strategy solves public cloud, on-premises riddle – TechTarget
April 5, 2019 | CIO Corner, Cloud Computing, Hybrid Cloud
With so many public cloud choices, IT organizations are developing new strategies on how and where to deploy new workloads.
With public cloud adoption increasing, one particular workload deployment has also seen an increase: a cloud-first strategy.
The basic premise of a cloud-first approach is that all new workloads are deployed on public cloud infrastructure unless there is a compelling reason to keep the workload on premises.
Firms often approach the public cloud from a state where all existing applications are deployed on premises in the data center.
In this case, a cloud-first strategy for new workload deployments can help balance workloads across a hybrid cloud environment by building out the public cloud side with new workloads.
This is often not the case, as many have embraced the public cloud, but the perception that IT can be resistant to change – and to the public cloud – persists.
In an Enterprise Strategy Group study of IT organizations, 41% of IT decision-makers identified that they had moved a workload back from the public cloud to be run on premises.
Those that identified themselves as having a cloud-first strategy for new application deployment were three times more likely to identify that they moved many workloads back from the cloud compared to organizations that equally considered on premises and public cloud prior to deployment.
There are factors that make certain workloads better suited for an on-premises or a public cloud deployment.
In this same study, 84% of IT decision-makers that pulled a workload back from the public cloud also indicated that they were either much less likely or somewhat less likely to use public cloud services in the future.
In other words, each workload an organization pulls back sours IT on the public cloud experience, making it less likely to use the public cloud in the future.
That future workload – the one that doesn’t get deployed in the cloud – might have been one that would benefit from a public cloud infrastructure model.
The likely optimal solution is to adopt a hybrid-first model, one that equally considers both the public cloud and on premises prior to deployment.
A successful hybrid cloud-based business does not result from having two separate factions – one supporting on premises and the other supporting public cloud – battling it out, or even from top-down executive mandates.
Source: Hybrid cloud-first strategy solves public cloud, on-premises riddle
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