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Sustainability, Scalability & Security - The Three Pillars of Cloud
Sustainability, Scalability & Security - The Three Pillars of Cloud

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In this era of rapid business transformation, enterprises are using cloud platforms and digital technologies to uncover new ways to leverage data and improve business performance. India is the second-fastest developing cloud services market in the Asia Pacific region. According to a recent research, the demand for Hybrid Cloud Market accounted for US$ 20.77 billion in 2020 and is estimated to go up to US$ 293.15 billion by 2030. Many enterprises are already using a hybrid approach and running workloads between on-premise and cloud environments. and leveraging the cloud to develop new applications, as opposed to on-premises environments. 

The accelerated pace of digital transformation has additionally intensified the demand for cloud offerings. Even before these unprecedented times, enterprises were already considering the cloud for some of their workloads. The pandemic has only accelerated that. Data agility and security have emerged to be of extreme importance for Indian enterprises. Adoption of cloud and building cloud native applications is central to the new, digitally-driven business models.

Deployed effectively, hybrid cloud enables next-generation, cloud native  applications that can span multiple cloud environments, allowing developers to focus on application functions rather than building in resiliency. Effectively deploying a unified hybrid cloud architecture and realizing the intended benefits is the current challenge for IT.  It requires a strategic oversight of technology selection, as well as application, storage and network architecture.

Going forward, IT infrastructure must be built with the demands of next-generation applications in mind – both in the public cloud and in internal environments – to realize the benefits of the cloud for new and innovative cloud-native development, and for the modernization of existing investments, including on-premises infrastructure and applications. 

The fact that most businesses see hybrid cloud as their IT strategy moving forward shows that no one technology  environment satisfies the breadth of IT requirements. Truly stitching together multiple environments in a unified, hybrid way across orchestration, management and storage layers delivers the best-case scenario for data protection, performance optimization, cost optimization and business agility.

The outcome of an effective cloud strategy will be true application portability, enabling businesses to seamlessly shift existing enterprise apps to the cloud, build new cloud-native apps off-premises, and even to migrate those cloud-native applications on-premises when it makes sense. Hybrid cloud will enable businesses to continuously evaluate workload placement to make the best use of all resources.

What’s next for hybrid cloud?

Cloud technology is projected to continue its growth trajectory with greater adoption and enterprises realizing the immense benefits it brings to business operations. To keep the lights on in the new normal, data agility and security are emerging as critical requirements for Indian enterprises. To help businesses get on the digital transformation journey, hybrid cloud offers solutions from the core to the edge, and to multi-cloud implementations. Cloud infrastructure is now a critical element of IT infrastructure, as Indian enterprises further into investing in digitization and look for security options for their workloads. 

To achieve a competitive advantage, businesses must start prioritizing operations that can be moved to the cloud. Also, associating business activities with cloud platforms is the business model of the near future. Indian Enterprises need to get ready for the transition and should do so to keep up with a global market realigned by the digital transformation. 

Develop an as-a-service approach to aid sustainability

There is enormous potential for saving energy, particularly in the case of storage solutions. True “as-a-Service” solutions are about buying an outcome (i.e. Service Level Agreement) and having a third party deliver it. Businesses should be able to start small, grow over time, and have transparency over pricing and related KPIs, including sustainability. In storage, that requires architecture that enables technology improvements without costly and disruptive rip-and-replace projects, is capable of flexing up and down as you need, and only deploys equipment as required. 

With the help of modern storage solutions, companies can become more energy efficient, reduce their CO2 balance and at the same time, generate less electronic waste and extend the service life of their infrastructure.

by Ajeya Motaganahalli, Vice President, Engineering and Managing Director, R&D, India, Pure Storage


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