To the Multi-Cloud and Beyond
Accenture | Oracle
Multi-cloud adoption has become essential for organizations as they adapt to a changing business landscape. Using multiple clouds offers benefits such as enhanced workload performance and reduced service disruption, but it can also lead to increased costs and complexity if not planned properly. Most multi-cloud architectures arise organically, with different areas of the business deploying different clouds as new needs arise. To succeed, interoperability and collaboration between cloud service providers are crucial. However, challenges such as managing complexity, data integration, and data gravity need to be navigated carefully. Oracle and Microsoft have formed a cloud interoperability alliance partnership that allows joint customers to deploy workloads across both Azure and Oracle Cloud environments, enabling them to leverage existing investments and improve agility, performance, and resilience.
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While organizations are using multiple clouds, this doesn’t necessarily mean individual applications are spanning clouds.
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Stuck in silos. If different cloud offerings are adopted in an unsystematic way, companies can end up with workloads operating in silos. Data and applications cannot be migrated easily outside their platform stack, hindering the organization’s ability to scale cloud adoption and realize the full business benefits.
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Consequently, as you amass more data in one cloud, and more of your apps and services rely on that data, it becomes increasingly difficult, not to mention costly, to move that data to another cloud. It’s a vicious cycle that can impede companies from effectively operating a distributed architecture across multiple cloud
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However, data gravity doesn’t have to be a dead end for multi-cloud adoption. With the right strategy—and partners supporting it— organizations can realize the key benefits of multi-cloud: sourcing best-of-breed solutions from trusted providers, architecting a flexible, high-performing digital infrastructure, and governing the entire landscape effectively.
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Data is the new center of gravity The difficulty of migrating data between clouds poses perhaps the biggest barrier to a successful multi-cloud strategy. A report by Omdia revealed that the inability to move workloads between clouds is slowing cloud computing adoption among 52% of businesses surveyed.
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