Cloud technology revolutionizes India’s digital landscape, driving significant growth in the cloud computing market. BlueWeave Consulting predicts a $17.8 billion market by 2029. To sustain this momentum, Indian businesses prioritize a future-proof IT strategy, with hybrid multi-cloud emerging as the preferred approach, supported by 99% of surveyed Indian IT professionals, per an ECI report.
Hybrid multi-cloud: An understanding
Hybrid multi-cloud solutions offer scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness, addressing limitations of traditional IT structures and cloud computing. By distributing data and workloads across environments, security is enhanced, and businesses gain flexibility to choose the best cloud provider for their needs. This adaptability optimizes resource usage, improves operational efficiency, and ensures a future-proof IT strategy for Indian businesses.
Benefits of hybrid-multi-cloud
1.Access to the latest technologies: Running workloads in a hybrid multi-cloud environment empowers organisations to leverage the latest innovations and capabilities from each cloud provider to take a best-in-class approach to cloud features and obtain the scale, security, and agility to innovate quickly. Cloud computing can help firms build out capabilities such as advanced analytics services that might be difficult or impossible to implement in on-premises environments.
2.Increased return on investment: Enterprises can increase their cloud computing capacity, gain flexibility, and save money by combining various public cloud providers with their existing on-premises infrastructure. This can assist in minimising capital and operational expenses, while also increasing transparency about costs and resource utilisation.
3.Flexibility through the tools: Hybrid multi-cloud strategies have advantages for firms as a whole but specifically benefit development teams that are working on different projects and tackling unique challenges across different lines of business. Applying a diverse set of technologies and developer expertise to a business problem improves responsiveness to market changes. It also avoids vendor lock-in issues.
4.Maintain regulatory compliance: Many industries have regulations in place that limit where their applications can operate. Adopting a hybrid solution allows enterprises to maintain compliance with regional data governance, residency, and digital sovereignty regulations.
5.Running apps at remote edge locations: Hybrid multi-cloud methods can help organisations satisfy cost, geographical, and regulatory requirements for distributed apps in remote areas, including kiosks, retail, networks, and telephony. These programes frequently require enhanced speed and low latency, and a hybrid multi-cloud strategy enables them to run specific apps at the network edge.
A hybrid multi-cloud approach is an increasingly common infrastructure setup today because enterprises can continue to use their on-premises infrastructure (traditional or private cloud) while also taking advantage of optimised public cloud options.
All things considered!
Hybrid multi-cloud is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but it represents the future for enterprises that value agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
By adopting a hybrid multi-cloud strategy and solving the accompanying difficulties, Indian firms can future-proof their IT infrastructure, foster innovation, and remain competitive in the global economy. As India’s IT sector evolves, hybrid multi-cloud is set to take the stage, ushering in a more dynamic and robust digital ecosystem.
The author is the Director, Co-Founder- Mass Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.