Although only around 20% of enterprise workloads have transitioned to a cloud environment, most organisations are eager to move to the cloud.
At the same time, IT and business managers are increasingly grappling with the slew of new challenges that are emerging in multi-cloud environments.
This is according to Andrew Hewitt-Coleman, Red Hat Synergy Leader - South Africa, Hybrid Cloud Integration Software at IBM South Africa.
Speaking ahead of a Webinar called ‘Managing multi-cloud environments’, to be hosted by Envisage in partnership with ITWeb, Hewitt-Coleman says the move to cloud is presenting new headaches for enterprises.
“It’s not quite as simple as just lifting everything up and moving it to the cloud. IT has to consider how to move critical workloads when they’re tied to on-premises applications, for example. That said, cloud is a massive domain and everyone is already using cloud technologies – whether it’s software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, or scaling into a new world of development.”
Increasingly, enterprises are embracing cloud-native development too, in order to scale and rapidly deploy, and to introduce new features and benefits at speed, he says.
But while the cloud brings new opportunities for speed and scale, enterprises are discovering that managing these environments can be complicated, with new challenges for IT, business units running their own projects, governance and risk, and developers.
“The big issue for organisations moving forward is how they’ll track workloads and applications, while managing and monitoring their multi-cloud environment,” says Hewitt-Coleman. “They must determine which environments make the most sense. One challenge with the nature of containerised applications and services is determining what’s happened to them from an audit trail perspective.
With our container orchestration platform OpenShift, the key thing is that we don’t have a view on a particular cloud, the focus is more about what cloud best suits customers – so where you deploy to is less important than how it’s being deployed and managed,” he says.
The IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, provides consistent visibility, governance and automation to give enterprises capabilities such as multicluster management, event management, application management and infrastructure management.
During the Webinar, Envisage MD Birgit Smythe will outline IBM’s Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, and Hewitt-Coleman will elaborate on how to unlock additional benefits with Multicloud Management Add-ons.
For more information, and to register for this event, click here.
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