Fall always seems to signal the start of a more introspective time. The social flurry of the summer months is winding down, and organizations are taking stock for the year ahead.
True to form, this month’s “must-reads” take a multifaceted, honest, empathetic, and only vaguely wearied look at cloud’s challenges-of-the-day. There are some excellent tips to be found here – and simply themes that we can all bond over.
The Register
Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost
How did we get ourselves into this cloud cost mess? Dan Robinson takes a look back at the early days, when enterprises reluctantly bought into cloud with the hopes of agility and cost savings – despite reservations over the prospect of security challenges and loss of control over business-critical infrastructure. Now, having largely lift-and-shifted applications to cloud, organizations are discovering a new set of challenges that lead to higher costs. They’re looking at how more permanent cloud architecture (that creates management simplicity, increases visibility and control, and improves cloud security) can help balance that cloud cost equation.
InfoWorld
Generative AI may displace traditional cloud development
In this reminder of the network engineer’s current professional strife, David Linthicum sums up what he’s seeing at cloud computing conferences this year: “Conferences are not focusing on general cloud computing services, such as storage, compute, security, and databases. Instead, they have become generative AI conferences.” As IT leaders explore potentially game-changing AI deployments, this is a much-needed reminder that the fundamentals still matter – as do the teams on the ground industriously making it work.
CloudPro
Lack of cloud skills exacerbating rising IT costs for businesses
No secret: Cloud costs are a rising issue (no pun intended) for enterprises. But new research from Aptum shows that beyond operational expenditures, a lack of relevant expertise is hampering organizations’ cloud ROI. “Nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents said that a ‘lack of internal expertise’ has prevented them from delivering value with their cloud investments,” reports Ross Kelly, going on to share further research and anecdotes supporting these findings.
Information Week
How to Minimize Multi-Cloud Complexity
If you’re looking for ways to manage multicloud complexity, call Aviatrix. But also check out this article from John Edwards that rounds up some of the key challenges and expert tips on how to address them. You just might come away with a few new angles that will help you get to the root of your multicloud problems.
Solutions Review
Why All Roads Lead to Multicloud—How Organizations Can Stay the Course
It sometimes seems that for every organization working on a multicloud architecture, there’s another that’s fully committed to a single CSP. However, as Tim King’s article points out, multicloud isn’t always and intentional choice. Aviatrix’s Bryan Ashley penned a similar opinion a couple of years ago, but the Solutions Review article wonderfully sums it up: “Though the move to a multi-cloud infrastructure may be unintentional, the architecture can indeed benefit the enterprise in the long-term.”
What do you think of these stories? Are you seeing these trends play out in your organization?