- Enterprises will continue to move to multi-cloud
as a preferred cloud deployment platform.
And that move is to the middle.
While each cloud's native services are perhaps
more mature than many of the cross cloud solutions
that reside in the middle,
they are native to only one cloud.
So, native services can provide an operational function
or functions to the native cloud.
And some have been modified to interact with other clouds.
But none are purpose built to manage other cloud brands.
Here's a hard reality for multi-cloud deployments to benefit
from common operational services that may run
from a particular cloud.
The common operational services must logically exist
above all cloud brands to leverage the native services
of each cloud.
Instead of two, three, or more consoles that provide
operational information from each cloud provider,
you want a single user interface.
Both visually and API based.
Meaning application programming interface based
that can abstract the differences
in the native services from the human operators.
The concept applies to platform, data, and application,
management, and monitoring services.
It's also relative to services such as cost management,
security, operations, backup and recovery,
user management, and tagging.
The use of common services is key
to multi-cloud management and operations.