Blog 5 Pivotal Use Cases for a Multicloud Approach
By Michael Nardone / 3 Oct 2024 / Topics: Cloud Managed cloud Modern infrastructure
The demand for multicloud isn't rising, it's already here. A multicloud strategy has quickly become the standard among IT leaders across major industries. An Insight-commissioned Foundry report found that nearly all decision makers (98%) reported use or planned use of a multicloud approach, with more than half (58%) spreading interoperable workloads across multiple cloud providers.
As companies are leaning towards a multicloud approach, many are still unable to unlock the full potential of their new environment. Learn the top use cases for multicloud and how you can implement a robust, always-on multicloud solution to exceed your business needs.
What’s possible with multicloud?
A multicloud solution enables you to merge best-of-breed offerings from top cloud providers, creating a solution unique to your business case. By selecting cloud offerings à la carte, you’ll choose only what you need from multiple providers and unite offerings to fit your specific cloud needs.
This diversified approach to cloud means access to a larger set of unique cloud services and resources, creating additional value for your business — without breaking the bank.
Here are a few of the top ways businesses are utilizing multicloud for cloud transformation and how you can get started.
1. Lower costs. Better performance.
You might assume that having more cloud providers will lead to higher costs. However, often the opposite is true.
Leveraging multiple cloud providers lets you choose from a suite of cost and purchase options, giving you more flexibility to compare, and eventually select, the best cost model for your budget. This helps you predict costs more effectively and improves ROI by ensuring you only pay for the resources you use. Rather than compacting workloads to a sole provider, distributing across providers gives you mobility to select the most cost-effective option for each workload.
Finally, working with multiple cloud providers increases visibility into your cloud utilization, empowering you to make better decisions about resource allocation and intentionally lowering cloud waste and costs.
2. Resilience for the cloud era
With the increase in cyber incidents, leaders are seeking better methods to safeguard their cloud environments.
The traditional method of centralizing workloads into one location can put businesses at a disadvantage by increasing the likelihood of high latency, system outages, and cyber risks.
Multicloud solutions offer a decentralized method of storing data across locations, decreasing the likelihood of incidents impacting your entire cloud environment. With multicloud, you can ensure your environment remains “always-on” and available 24/7 during any event — from network congestion and power outages to security incidents.
Success story: See how we helped this leading materials science company adopt a robust multicloud strategy, creating a strong foundation for ongoing data center modernization.
3. Simplifying cloud compliance
Being cloud-compliant means understanding what laws, regulations, and industry standards are impacting your cloud environment. These policies can change significantly depending on geographic location.
So, how can organizations ensure they meet the regulatory requirements for their workloads across the globe? The answer is a multicloud approach. By utilizing multicloud, businesses can select the right cloud provider per region to meet local requirements and remain compliant. With multicloud, you gain additional tools and geopolitical zones to achieve a better compliance posture for your business.
4. No lock-in. No limits.
Relying on a single cloud provider may keep your cloud growth at bay. A multicloud strategy offers businesses the flexibility to navigate between vendors with ease. Organizations can avoid dependency on single providers by diversifying their workloads — achieving the best pricing, performance, and service by merging the best of multiple providers.
5. Specialization of cloud providers
Maintaining a centralized cloud environment may create blind spots in your cloud resource and skill set. With multicloud, you can leverage differentiated capabilities and benefits per provider, selecting vendors specialized in your cloud needs (including industry-specific services and solutions) and best fit to address your biggest gaps and workload challenges.
Build the cloud you need with the team you trust.
As companies look to scale their cloud environments, multicloud brings the best of cloud providers together to create custom solutions across industries.
Insight’s top priority as your multicloud partner is to help you build the right cloud solution for your unique needs — with better performance, lowered costs, and best-in-class flexibility and resilience. Our powerhouse partnership network and core competencies across Microsoft® Azure®, Google Cloud, AWS, and private infrastructure help clients make the right cloud decisions and drive optimal value for their business.
The promise of cloud, realized. That’s multicloud with insight.
Michael Nardone
Cloud Solutions Director and Distinguished Technologist, Insight
Michael is obsessed with helping clients achieve business outcomes and deliver real value through modern cloud platforms and accelerated software principles. In his 20 years of experience with enterprise technology, Michael has held various roles across deep technical administration, engineering, architecture and strategy, with a focus on leadership and equipping teams for change. He enjoys the learning journey and rapid pace that technology brings and strives to build high performing organizations that embrace those principles.
