CLOUD VENDORS
“ The speed at which organisations have adopted public cloud and gone from one to multiple cloud use is a bit of an eye-opener ”
ROB TRIBE VP SYSTEM ENGINEERING , EMEA , NUTANIX
but although these services work well if workloads run exclusively on a specific vendor ' s cloud , these native tools only help businesses manage the parts of their infrastructure in that particular cloud .
“ They will not work across public clouds or with private clouds and on-premises resources . While significant advancements in the alignment of monitoring tools for some aspects of the architecture are being made , monitoring and reporting remain divergent in other areas .
Data ingress and egress , the movement of data into or out of a cloud environment , is a further example of an area where cloud vendors have different data management tools and different charging bands for movement of data . This means multiple tools may be needed to achieve a single data ingress or egress activity ,” said Lamb .
Matt Nash is Cloud Product Manager at Pulsant , who offer managed data centre services and serve the cloud computing market . He added on the benefits of hybrid cloud adoption : “ By using a hybrid strategy encompassing both public and private clouds , clients can prioritise workloads and choose a location that best fits certain
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