Half way through 2023, it’s clear that the song of the summer (or the next year or more) for cloud networkers is “It’s All About the Benjamins.”
In this month’s “must-reads” newsletter, cloud costs have taken center stage. Between survey data and expert insights, we’ve rounded up top articles that help illuminate where cloud costs are hiding, how costs evolve as cloud applications and initiatives mature, and expert advice on improving cloud cost management moving forward.
ITBrief
55% of Enterprises Boost Cloud Spend Despite Challenges
HashiCorp released its 2023 State of Cloud Strategy Survey (performed by Forrester Consulting) in June, which showed how APAC organizations are maturing their multicloud adoption. While companies continue to boost their cloud spend, the skills gap remains a key barrier. Interestingly, security ranked as the top multicloud benefit among those surveyed.
Dataversity
Cloud Architecture Mistakes: Organizations Need Shorter Mean Time to Recovery
If you haven’t been following Shahzad Ali’s series on common cloud architecture mistakes in Dataversity, the last installment ran in June and it’s worth a read. Shahzad dives deep on five mistakes related to data processing, DIY, cloud cost management, lift-and-shift, and security can lead your organization down the path to hidden high cloud costs. He also offers practical recommendations and steps that you can begin working on to remediate these issues today.
Kyndryl
How to clean up inefficient, costly cloud networks
In this must-read, Robert DeWeese of Kyndryl asks: “...why have cloud networks become so messy in recent years?” He discusses how pressures such as keeping pace with hyperscalers and the burden of sunk costs are holding enterprise stakeholders back from taking the large leap that’s ultimately needed – a transformative cloud makeover.
InfoWorld
Applications running like clunkers in the cloud? 3 options to consider
Expert David Linthicum discusses how the rush to cloud in recent years has meant that “typically applications that were lifted and shifted to the cloud with little or no modernization or refactoring.” The result? Most enterprises are finding that the applications they migrated to public cloud aren't cost-effective. If this sounds familiar, he proposes three paths forward, weighing the costs and benefits.
Security Magazine
82% of security leaders believe cloud automation critical
A report from NetApp this month found that automation is the key to success in cloud operations. Among the findings, 95% of IT decision makers have automated cloud operations, with 15% saying they have a “significant” level of automation. Those with “significant automation” say they are very confident (60%) about their visibility into cloud costs compared to only 22% of those with “partial automation” and 14% with “minimal or no automation.”
What do you think of these stories? Are any of these cost-related trends playing out in your organization?