Cisco Hybrid Cloud Trends Report Indicates Important Uptake
We've got the trends partners will find most interesting.
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Cisco just released its 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report. 451 Research surveyed 2,500 IT professionals throughout the world to find out how organizations are using hybrid cloud computing.
Here are the first of several key takeaways.
Cisco’s survey shows that 82% of respondents have adopted hybrid cloud. Almost half (47%) of organizations rely on two or three public clouds. Just 8% of organizations use only one public cloud provider. (As evidenced by that low figure, that’s a bit of an anomaly. Most organizations these days have at least two public cloud environments.)
Next up, hybrid cloud challenges your customers are facing.
It’s a mathematical reality — the more of anything there is to manage and track, the more complexity users can expect. To that point, respondents told Cisco the following about their cloud computing setups:
• Thirty-seven percent see security concerns as a significant challenge to deploying to multiple clouds.
• Thirty-five percent view increased operational complexity as a top challenge when using multiple clouds.
On the next slide, find out where end users know they need to focus more of their energies.
The IT experts polled by 451 Research on Cisco’s behalf indicated that they know they have to facilitate cooperation among networking, cloud operations and DevOps teams.
To that point, more than half of respondents (55%) have created a cross-functional team with technical and business representation. Meanwhile, one-half have a centralized CloudOps and NetOps function to ensure the organization’s hybrid cloud strategy meets business objectives.
Respondents said greater collaboration should result in better cloud security (45%), more efficiency (41%) and improved cloud application performance (39%).
As Informatica rounds out its Informatica World event this week, the company said on May 25 it has teamed with Oracle Cloud.
To date, Informatica has partnered with the Big 3 public cloud providers, and ancillary vendors including Databricks and Snowflake. Adding Oracle Cloud to the mix brings a private cloud component to Informatica’s cloud data management strategy and rounds out Informatica’s cloud coverage, the company said.
The two providers say they will deliver cloud-native data management, integration and governance solutions for a variety of data-based workflows and applications.
Capabilities will include:
• Ability to load and manage data in Oracle Cloud Lakehouses via Informatica.
• Access to free database migration tools and other resources from Oracle.
• Professional services incentives for migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Informatica offerings on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
Notably, Oracle was one of the investor’s in Informatica’s second IPO, conducted last year.
Private cloud computing provider Zadara now reaches 441 points of presence (PoPs) throughout the world.
Zadara says it’s deploying a PoP every week.
The company made the announcement on Wednesday. It said its global edge cloud network now spans 24 countries and includes every continent except Antarctica.
Zadara’s cloud computing platform supports managed services, offers EC2 compatibility and more. While the company expands its reach, it also is growing its managed service provider channel. Zadara says it has partners in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa.
“Zadara is realizing its vision to deploy and support a network of service providers that scale without the need to build new data centers, while offering cloud services anywhere in the world,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO and co-founder at Zadara. “Bringing a better-than-public-cloud experience, with optimized price, performance, security and compliance to our partners, means faster times to innovation and new growth opportunities.”
Of course, Zadara isn’t the only independent cloud computing vendor securing channel partner loyalty. Vultr and Linode have both been hot and heavy in the community, too. Meanwhile, Digital Ocean’s channel activity has slowed.
SADA, a Google Cloud-only managed service provider, has added three machine learning solutions to its POWER line of products.
The new machine learning components come in three pieces: a feasibility study; a minimum-viability model and pipeline; and a production module.
SADA debuted Power earlier this year, describing it as portfolio designed to mirror the customer journey when integrating Google Cloud. SADA delivers the best practices, methodologies and people to help customers fit Google Cloud technologies into their organizations.
SADA, a Google Cloud-only managed service provider, has added three machine learning solutions to its POWER line of products.
The new machine learning components come in three pieces: a feasibility study; a minimum-viability model and pipeline; and a production module.
SADA debuted Power earlier this year, describing it as portfolio designed to mirror the customer journey when integrating Google Cloud. SADA delivers the best practices, methodologies and people to help customers fit Google Cloud technologies into their organizations.
Hybrid cloud trends are standing out in the world of cloud computing. While public cloud adoption is, of course, soaring, so is the simultaneous uptake of private cloud. This creates a hybrid cloud environment that supports organizations’ needs to scale while keeping confidential data closer to the vest.
Cisco on Wednesday released its 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report, tracking developments within this critical aspect of digital transformation. In the slideshow above, we share some of the findings channel partners will find most interesting.
We also take a look at what’s happening between Informatica and Oracle Cloud — frankly, news that also reflects ongoing activity in these types of cloud trends.
And we share the latest coming out of Zadara and SADA.
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