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 Instead, diversity is required. Because there is no one-stop shop with the ideal cloud portfolio. In addition, innovations can only be purchased from different suppliers and, in principle, not all eggs belong in a single nest.CIOsshould therefore take two approaches. This includes multi-cloud management, in which applications and systems that are operated in IaaS , PaaS and SaaS environments do not necessarily have to be integrated with one another.

Still, the big one persists challengein keeping track of all the cloud services and offers used. With hybrid integration, CIOs are taking a serious step. After all, the real added value of cloud systems only arises when they are interlinked, can work on a common database or exchange data with one another. For example, it should actually be a matter of course that a cloud-based CRM service can access data from an ERP system.

In this context, multi-cloud integration is the premier class. Companies use a colorful mix of different types of cloud - infrastructures, platforms and software services - which they use partly independently, but mostly integrate on a uniform basis. With such a cloud development plan (digital platform fabric), it is important on the one hand to ensure unconditional interaction, but on the other hand to keep an eye on things.

Cloud computing in German medium-sized companies

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The study participants

222 medium-sized companies took part in the study. Two thirds of them are planning with all cloud models.

Platform services

Microservices architectures are the ultimate trend when it comes to developing modern system and application landscapes. By breaking applications down to the atomic level of individual processes and functions (“microservices”), updates or patches only relate to individual parts of the system and never to the entire application. In this way, individual microservices can easily be replaced with new ones and innovations can be implemented with a short "time to market". During the development of a microservice architecture, it is primarily a matter of focusing on your own application architecture and developing your own microservices. To build up the necessary skills or the right onestaff Finding it is still no easy task today.

With platform services, a trend has established in recent years with which CIOs and CTOs can support their development teams with already finished microservices. Public cloud IaaS providers such as Amazon  Reviews Web Services or Microsoft Azure are driving the trend forward. A platform service encapsulates a closed functionality and is developed and operated independently. It is therefore a small, independent software component (service) that provides a partial function within a large, distributed software application.

With these services, applications can be developed more quickly, as the building blocks no longer have to be developed yourself and can instead be used directly as modules in your own source code.