Moving to the cloud promises faster, smoother application delivery – but IT leaders must ensure they don’t sacrifice flexibility in the process.
Recent disruptions in the form of virtualisation license changes and the push for AI make agility more important than ever, says Rhys Powell, senior black belt, Managed Cloud Services at Red Hat, in a recent CIO webcast series.
“You don’t get tectonic shifts in IT very often, but this year we’ve had two,” Powell says.
Organisations are now thinking more about preparing themselves against future disruptions and are questioning their reliance on single providers.
To avoid overreliance on a single hyperscaler and maintain infrastructure control, a growing number of organisations are embracing multi-cloud flexibility – with Gartner predicting that 90% will adopt a hybrid cloud approach through 2027. The best strategy here is to use a managed service like OpenShift that allows you to deploy applications across multiple cloud providers, Powell explains.
Using OpenShift allows organisations to free themselves from worrying about infrastructure complexity and focus on the application layer, giving them “the flexibility to be able to react in a far more timely manner” to industry shifts, Powell says.
Applications can be deployed exactly where businesses want, which “might mean in multiple places at the same time,” he adds.
With OpenShift’s site reliability engineers handling the underlying infrastructure, development teams can focus entirely on building applications, thereby accelerating delivery.
“This means that you and your teams are focused 100% on getting that application out of the door in front of your customers, the people that actually earn your organisation money,” Powell says.
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