Recent decade has been a witness to an exodus of a great number of enterprises to the cloud environment. The latest IDC report hints at saturation of hybrid cloud adoption, which is hovering around 65 percent and has already consumed a whopping $38 million in terms of cloud investments.
The extent of cloud adoption can be easily appreciated as every single organization in the elite Fortune 500 club has embraced cloud computing in some or other way. Although, hybrid cloud solutions have significantly enhanced scalability and flexibility of resources, IT experts must have an access to effective tools that help minimize security concerns and enhance positive attributes of cloud adoption. This article attempts to look at factors that necessitate control and visibility as far as cloud resources of any organization are concerned.
Performance optimization
Online enterprises need to have an in-depth understanding of the power of internet medium and should always be looking at ways to exploit this medium to gain a competitive edge to boost revenue earnings. Seamless availability of business applications and fast page loading speeds are crucial aspects of a successful business website.
It is no wonder why every company is chasing the single most important of goal of an enhanced user experience through improving the reach and by augmenting online performance of the business website. Slow websites are as bad as websites that encounter frequent downtime events.
Managing and defending outages
Quality of cloud service provider’s performance must be assessed by users by considering the impact on availability and speed of websites. There is no direct method to indentify failure of nodes that are significant components of the cluster. IT teams must be empowered to monitor performance of business critical applications in various geographic locations. Outage management should also cover CDN assets since their performance is always oscillating at different geographic locations. Many businesses consider more than one DNS service to deal with performance issues.
Improved management of cloud
Cloud assets need to be utilized to their fullest potential for improvement of performance as well as for justification of cloud expenses. This underlines significance of in-depth knowledge of internet performance factors and a highly proficient management of cloud services.
In-house IT staff must be capable of analyzing performance criteria of cloud hosting services and thereby ensuring that every aspect of performance is being achieved in terms of thresholds.
Need for extensive security
Most of the IT executives and system admins feel that it is enough to secure data center operations in order to meet security standards. However, there is a need for a broader approach when it comes to defining boundaries of organization’s IT assets. Security measures should be designed to encompass all assets such as data center as well as cloud infrastructure.
Global-scale availability
If your enterprise is going to operate globally, then every end user must be assured of uniform experience irrespective of his or her geographic location. Your business needs to be available across all global locations for ensuring seamless service visibility for customers in addition to unrestricted connectivity for all stake holders.
Unless you have ability to guarantee a consistent performance of your online assets and applications, your brand cannot be established in focused markets. There are several ways to boost your online presence including use of secondary cloud CDN solutions, multiple service providers, and stringent performance monitoring for achieving desired load levels just to name a few.
Mitigating errors
Rise in the events of cyber attacks has resulted in increased focus on threats that impact external security. However, one must not undermine the nuisance potential of internal issues including user errors, new code deployment associated issues, among others.
There is an urgent need to adopt performance monitoring tools to improve overall security and to dynamically implement real time changes to arrest untoward events from occurring. The latest technologies have made it possible to deliver seamless availability of websites in spite of downtime.
Optimized performance
Majority of organizations have already shifted or are planning to migrate thousands of applications to cloud. This is mainly due to the need for enhancing performance, availability and to reduce data center footprint. Organizations are also going to save huge capital costs by mitigating hardware-intensive and on-site infrastructures of enterprise IT.
These exercises are being undertaken in spite of grave complexities and vast scale of cloud-adoption. This calls for an in-depth insight of IT assets and robust control over IT infrastructure. These are essential aspects for optimization of costs as well as performance.
Assurance of scalability
Accessibility to high performance DNS based solutions for managing traffic is a must for cost and performance optimization. Migration of more and more IT assets to cloud can include region or need based considerations. Intelligent scalability is therefore extremely imperative for gaining sound control over public internet. Maximization of efficiency can only be possible with network optimization after implementation public IPSEC WAN.
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