CLOUD & COLOCATION
UNPACKING THE STRATEGIC EDGE
Flexibility and innovation No single cloud provider is the answer to every problem. By leveraging the strengths of several companies’ services, data centres gain unfettered access to innovative services – cutting-edge AI from one vendor, robust security from another, powerful analytics or storage from a third.
Cost and performance optimisation With multi-cloud, workloads can be matched to the most cost-effective or high-performance environment, optimising spend without sacrificing capability. This pick-and-mix approach ensures that businesses avoid locking into a single provider’ s pricing model and can react quickly to market shifts or disruptions.
Resilience, continuity and security Perhaps the most compelling benefit is risk mitigation. Outages, security incidents or even regulatory changes at a single provider need not imperil business continuity. As each provider operates independently, workloads can be shifted or replicated, ensuring compliance and uptime.
says Manish Aggarwal, Vice President, Cloud and Infrastructure Services at Tech Mahindra.
“ Many enterprises have rapidly adopted oublic and private cloud platforms, reaping benefits like scalability, speed, AI / GenAI capabilities, flexible commercial models, on-demand consumption, IaaS & PaaS solutions and more.
“ My recent discussions with business leaders have focused on how to implement a multi-cloud strategy for efficient workload distribution, enhancing resilience and regulatory compliance, by utilising the diverse capabilities of these platforms,” Manish adds.“ Businesses are now designing complex, interconnected cloud ecosystems that utilise the unique strengths of multiple cloud providers. This approach aims to achieve strategic benefits and manage risks.
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