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CLOUD & COLOCATION
that comes from poorly integrated cloud estates. Their guidance ensures that cloud investment translates into genuine value, not just tech proliferation.
Soumya Gangopadhyay, Senior Manager, Technology, Media & Telecommunications at EY, is seeing growing demand among clients for guidance on multicloud networking and strategy.
“ The rise of multicloud usage is prompting many organisations to rethink network capabilities,” said Soumya, speaking to Network World.“ We see businesses looking to identify solutions that either connect, track, secure and automate cloud workloads or involve some combination of the four.”
Industry-leading consultants help organisations design resilient architectures, develop migration roadmaps and avoid the waste
Beyond either / or: Hybrid and multi-cloud converge It is increasingly clear that the future is not about choosing between hybrid and multi-cloud but leveraging aspects of both.
Many enterprises are adopting hybrid multi-cloud architectures: core and sensitive workloads remain on-premises for maximum control, while less-sensitive or highly scalable workloads are distributed across multiple public clouds.
“ Enterprise cloud adoption continues to rise, with hybrid and multi-cloud environments becoming the norm,” says Fánan Henriques, Business Product and International Business Director at Vodafone.
“ While workloads have become more fluid, connectivity has remained frustratingly fixed. But now, cloudnative network infrastructure, coupled with access technologies like 5G Standalone, low earth orbit satellites and emerging IoT solutions, is reshaping how businesses think about network design.”
Tools like Kubernetes, Anthos and Azure Arc support this unified approach, allowing workloads to move seamlessly between environments and consolidating management into a single pane of glass.
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