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Though the legacy infrastructure fulfilled need of the hour, it has been troublesome for various reasons, majorly critical hardware maintenance and inability to handle large workloads, among others.
This is where cloud computing offered special advantage by showing the path to scaling up to on-demand services and alleviate maintenance burden that led to improved business productivity.
Considering these business advantages, many organizations have already moved to the cloud, while many others are in the path to cloud transformation to achieve cost optimization and deliver new solutions.
As part of the cloud-first approach, organizations are actively developing new cloud strategies, modernizing technology stack, developing multi-cloud environments and cloud-native apps, among others.
Above these benefits, cloud computing is paving the way for easy digital transformation for most companies, showing them cost-effective solutions, ways to accelerate innovation like never before and achieve 100% customer satisfaction.
But like any other thing technology solution, even the cloud has its own set of risks and challenges, which is mostly attributed to the lack of planning and a perfect cloud strategy.
Delivering maximum value from the cloud strategy purely depends on organizational ability to manage complex IT application portfolio and supporting IT infrastructure.
This is where every organization need to take a short break and examine the ‘top cloud strategy challenges/pitfalls and ways to overcome’ them. Here are some of them:
Cloud computing is most sought majorly for its ability to cut down unnecessary costs that lead to cost savings. By doing so, cloud has successfully facilitated the shift from additional Capital expenditure (Capex) to Operational Expenditure (Opex). But this can often be risky if not managed properly and may lead to rise in cloud spending. Challenges in this case can be over-provisioned services, unused licensed, expired instances, unused resources, duplication or idle cloud servers, among others.
As Opex is closely associated with application usage, streamlined controls that monitor the usage and related expenses, without letting them go out of control, can help in avoiding this pitfall. This needs high visibility of the cloud environment, including instances and services. A perfect data strategy that can track and forecast the cloud spending in line with the planned budget and expected return of investment.
DevOps proved to be an effective solution in accelerating innovation. DevOps practices and cloud-native collaboration took that to the next level fueling the desired transformation. While frequent releases are the most common thing in a DevOps environment, that coupled with a cloud-native environment can often pose a challenge because of interdependencies and distributed designs associated with the cloud environment. In addition, many cloud apps depend heavily on backend services for extending, making the service delivery pipeline complex. This kind of environment causes serious challenges to the troubleshooting process. Surveys show 620 million hours/per year developer time is getting wasted in debugging failures, causing around USD 61 billion unnecessary costs due to failure tests.
Lack of visibility has halted the pace of innovation in many organizations. Addressing this problem requires effective maintenance of observability and high visibility over the cloud environment.
Robust security strategy stands at the heart of a fast-paced IT environment. A DevOps structure, backed by cloud-native environment, facilitates a fast-paced environment which can often compromise security factor. Security challenge doesn’t actually come with the cloud environment, it’s the lack of proper controls, policies and technologies that compromise the security strategy. There needs a shift in mindset from doubting cloud’s security ability to self-examining whether the cloud platform being used is being secured properly. Further, understanding and managing security becomes further difficult in a distributed cloud or multiple cloud environment. All these would compromise the security strategy of your organization. This challenge needs a close watch as a weak security strategy can weaken overall cloud strategy. A well-defined data platform can alleviate security challenges concerns associated with cloud and help you define a clear IT security posture for your organization.
Though there is an increasing shift from legacy infrastructure to the cloud infrastructure, it doesn’t happen overnight and not that easy. It takes more time not just for replacing infrastructure, but also to prepare the mindset for the next change. As part of this process, organizations often tend to use the existing toolset (part of their legacy infrastructure) to fill the existing gaps and meet their cloud needs. But this manipulation process can lead to additional spending and may also direct activities on wrong side. The simple logic here is that the legacy tools may not be designed for the modern architectures. Thus, doing so may not give appropriate results. So, tooling usage in a cloud mindset requires a strategic approach to achieve the desired response time and performance.
Here is where an effective data platform can help you in bridging the gaps between the legacy setup and the new cloud setup to present a whole picture at a place. Then you can easily identify, classify, predict and automate activities to achieve the desired output.
Remember the fact, Cloud is an ocean. All you need is a strategic movement in deciding what you need and what suits the best for your business needs. It's very easy to transform your mindset from cloud-first to cloud-always. But if not properly managed, you end up in subscribing to each and every cloud solution out there. This will cause you additional costs and lack of clarity on your cloud strategy. Here is where you need a broader approach in choosing what works for you. That requires a comprehensive monitoring strategy around cloud service availability. You need a comprehensive plan to manage workloads as you get flooded with increasing feeds and data alerts. Mindset has to change from having multiple platforms to having a single centralized platform with IT, operations, security and DevOps tied to it, for high visibility.
List not exhaustive! There could be many such, but we have brought to you some important cloud strategy challenges that most organizations fall prey to.
It’s time to re-examine your cloud strategy and find what works the best for your organizational needs. Gear Up!
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