Hybrid and multi-cloud integration

 

Managed public clouds

With the opening of the German Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) region in October 2014 in Frankfurt, thePublic cloudalso arrived in Germany. Their importance is underlined by numerous customer references and, in some cases, innovative use cases. But not only AWS will continue to cause a sensation in the coming year. We can also expect some surprises in 2016 from providers such as IBM Softlayer , Salesforce , ProfitBricks and especially Microsoft , who are now entering the German market with their own data centers. The fight for the public cloud has also broken out in Germany and the recent Safe Harbor ruling will do its part! 

However, there are several protagonists in an exciting story. IT users are once again playing the main role in the public cloud. A high level of complexity in usability - keyword: cloud knowledge - and a previously unclear communication of responsibilities - keyword: self-service / shared responsibility - cause confusion and impair public cloud adaptation. The white knights who will defuse the situation for both providers and users are the Managed Public Cloud Providers (MPCP). They develop and operate the systems, submissions and simulated environments of their customers on the public cloud infrastructures. They thus equal the lack of knowledge of the cloudCompanies and solve the problem of shared responsibility. 

Hybrid and multi-cloud integration

As part of the digital transformation of their company, CIOs are faced with the challenge of not  neglecting their legacy and compliance-critical systems in addition to introducing new types of infrastructure and IT environments to support modern workloads. In the recent past him has therefore been shown that two worlds belong to a modern IT environment: the dynamicITand Static IT. What is already becoming apparent: Dynamic IT environments, mainly implemented on the basis of public cloud environments, are not only being set up by a single provider.