Indeed, it was stated that Amazon Web Services remains at the top, with a 32% market share. It is closely followed by Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure, with a 20% share. The two combined make up 52% of the world’s cloud market.

After that, we can found Google Cloud, with 9%, and Alibaba Cloud, with 6%. These four own over half of the overall market. IBM Cloud, Salesforce, Tencent Cloud, and Oracle Cloud then only represent 12% of the market combined.

Thus, the report revealed that, with the pandemic, cloud infrastructure services increased exponentially, especially compared to the years before. With most people still working from home, it is clear that these services and companies will continue to grow more powerful.

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Yet, cloud infrastructures are getting more and more complex, especially with the digital revolution happening. Sooner than later, businesses will need more advanced ways to deal with it so as to still see benefits.

Why Cloud?

First of all, we can wonder why so many organizations are turning towards the cloud. Cloud infrastructure enables a quicker time to market and more scalability. Besides, cloud-based resources can also reduce the complexity of deploying new services, hence allowing developers to focus on more complex tasks.

Moreover, cloud-center methodologies such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) allows the automation of management and provisioning of an entire technology stack with configuration, rather than having manual deployments. IaC can also support CI/CD deployment and disaster recovery plans by easily deploying test environments.

However, cloud proficiency depends on organizations. Indeed, sometimes developers who implement cloud deployments are trying to achieve quick results rather than focus on efficiency. Thus, this approach can be inefficient and end with systems that are difficult to maintain. This could even be worsened over time if additional services or new features are built on top of the initial design.

Cloud complexity

It is then getting more and more complicated to deploy well-designed cloud systems. Organizations that are trying to leverage the cloud in more advanced ways are sometimes forced to re-architect existing systems, hence making them lose more time than anything.

There are also other factors that enhance the complexity of the cloud. Indeed, the quick evolution of the cloud has led to new cloud tech and strategies that didn’t exist before, such as serverless and containers. Thus, businesses need to find a way to adapt to it. With this new tech, there is a need for new skills and expertise. Only more qualified cloud engineers will enable the company to stay ahead of the competition.

Alongside these advancements, also comes more risks from a larger attack surface. This is where an experienced and skilled team in dealing with new cloud tech is absolutely vital. Cloud architects are now necessary to help enterprises to see whatever technology they feel is the best fit. Multi-cloud is key, and microarchitectures are the way to define enterprise architecture through event-driven decoupled sprints. Moreover, modern public cloud platforms provide broad capabilities that keep on evolving quickly. Hence, the organization will gain both in cost and in reliability and maintainability.

Better management of cloud infrastructure

Over the years, businesses build their IT infrastructure environment with separate servers, storage, and networking components, hence, making their data center too complex and hard to manage. However, as the cloud is evolving quickly, it is making it all the more challenging to control these environments.

With new cloud capabilities becoming available, enterprises have the responsibility to leverage the right features for the best cloud solution possible, which require constant optimization. Hence, businesses need to have the appropriate tools and resources to maintain them.

Therefore, many companies are in need of one common management solution to strengthen their infrastructure silos. The best solution would be to have one unified management interface, which would help address the complexities of managing these hybrid IT environments, including server, storage, and networking.

There is then a need to simplify how these environments are managed. Some tools that might help do that include cloud management platforms (CMPs), cloud service brokers (CSBs), resource governance, service governance, cost governance, multi-platform monitoring, and multi-platform management. Cloud-based systems need special requirements, including new cloud-native interfaces, purpose-built databases, and the use of identity for security and governance.

In order to get the best management of cloud infrastructure, businesses need the best experts in cloud practices and automation strategies. These cloud experts can then focus on core designs, in-house IT in order to keep productivity and quality as best as possible.

Conclusion

The best way to eliminate native system complexity from databases, platforms, operating systems, containers, HPC, and specialized systems is through leveraging tools to manage and monitor these systems. Organizations need to use common notions that are consistent from system to system and to implement a solution that can remove complexity from multi-cloud.

Having a better-managed cloud infrastructure will enable organizations and customers to transform their servers, storage, and networking into software-defined infrastructure that can reduce complex manual processes and increases the speed and flexibility of IT service delivery.

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The growth of SaaS and the cloud has affected the traditional security perimeter of the enterprise, creating a need to combine the security and operational policies of on-premises, SaaS and public cloud infrastructure.

Arctic Wolf Networks is adding SaaS application and public cloud infrastructure monitoring to its CyberSOC platform because of this, ensuring customers stay secure when using business-critical cloud-based applications and infrastructure services.

Brian NeSmith, CEO at Arctic Wolf, said to betanews: “All SaaS and cloud services pose security risks, and the biggest issues arise when companies don’t have visibility to what security problems may exist.

“AWN CyberSOC helps customers view their on-premises, SaaS applications and public cloud infrastructure through a single pane of glass for 360-degree security visibility.”

Written by Leah Alger

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The global leader in digital transformation accomplished a 25% growth rate over the last year, with revenues in 2016 exceeding £170million.

Growth of Atos’ specialist digital services combined with the Econsultancy recognition is a significant endorsement of Atos credentials.

Bringing together a blend of people and digital technologies, including notable clients: NS&I, BBC, Anglian Water, Aegon, etc.

Toby Goldblatt, senior vice president for digital services, said: “It’s great to see Atos’ work in customer-led digital transformation being recognised and we hope that this endorsement builds further market understanding of our capabilities.

“The market demands are changing and this year’s Econsultancy top 100 rankings highlights this – it’s now a more balanced mix of former ad’ and design agencies, consultancies and technology firms.”

The breadth of Atos digital transformation services includes customer experience strategy, application transformation, cloud infrastructure, Atos CODEX big data and analytics, SAP Hana integration, infrastructure and hosting, cyber security, digital payments and digital workplace solutions.

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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