
Cloud Strategies For Mitigating Security Challenges
CIO Review APAC | Monday, August 22, 2022

As various innovations continue to happen in cloud computing to assist businesses to modernise existing applications, new approaches are emerging, especially focusing on security issues as the primary concern.
FREMONT, CA: As businesses observed the greater advantage of cloud computing during the pandemic in connecting companies and remote workforces, every organisation would eventually embrace cloud models. Existing cloud businesses would find ways to streamline their processes for faster growth and enhanced business continuity. With security concerns being one of the major challenges faced by businesses, an essential strategy will be implemented to mitigate the issue.
Using Hybrid with Multi-Cloud Strategy to Reduce Risks
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Cloud is the foundation for many vital applications, and after major cloud vendors experienced numerous outages in previous years, businesses are implementing a multi-cloud strategy for mitigating the risks of a single point of failure. Significant applications and administrative operations will apply a cloud strategy that includes a hybrid with a multi-cloud strategy. Applications will run on on-premises and multiple cloud providers in a hybrid with a multi-cloud strategy. This provides data sovereignty, disaster recovery and risk deduction, as well as being agile and scalable.
Design and development of cloud-native applications that can be administered and scaled on any cloud environment, as well as the development of a management platform that aids in the management of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, is a critical component. There are extensive developments observed in the hybrid and multi-cloud space, from infrastructure modernisation, mainframe and legacy migration, integration, data mobilisation, tooling and training for hybrid and multi-cloud adoption.
Unified Cloud–One platform for Hybrid, Multi-Cloud and Edge
A unified cloud platform offers a single, consistent, secured and policy-driven managed space to execute workloads in on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud and edge environments. Edge applications are the driving force behind the new set of requirements for the cloud. With the massive transition towards 5G, the next generation applications will be the fundamental factors to drive new requirements such as real-time decision making, low latency streaming, gaming, virtual and immersive experience, and collective intelligence. Edge computing will be a crucial aspect of this new experience. Furthermore, this also demands businesses to be agile and prepared for this radical transformation. For example, new advancements such as virtual mall shopping, trying outfits using digital mirrors or changing rooms, immersive online learning experiences, and more would lead to offering new applications in edge locations. These locations can be either at a cloud edge or a customer location, but closer to the end user for a better-connected experience.
As companies are approaching these deployment models, they need a standardised methodology to produce cloud applications that can be positioned in any situation. Moreover, centralised policies that can be employed and monitored across different environments are needed for governance, data residency, and security for applications running in different environments and locations. A unified cloud would consolidate these critical capabilities under a single platform. It would be one of the significant proposals offered by major cloud providers in the future.
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