Cloud: Building a multi-cloud strategy without breaking the bank

By? Fabián Jiménez ,?our Innovation and Growth Lead at?Noventiq

We’re in the middle of a cloud revolution. Thousands of companies and organisations around the world are shifting to the cloud to ensure that their businesses are able to manage their data effectively, run their digital infrastructure smoothly, and are fit to scale for the future without any unexpected surprises getting in the way.

The cloud market offers a dazzling array of plans and options which companies can use. The issue is that due to seasonality, data spikes, and growth trajectory many organisations have found themselves having to opt for multiple providers in order to patch together the right solution for them. In fact, a survey from Forrester in 2022 puts the number of enterprises using at least two cloud providers at 75%.

Working with a cloud provider demands a great deal of attention. Unless you have a team of people working on making sure that you’re getting the most out of your providers, it’s likely that you’re losing money by not hitting the data limits set in your plan, or else you’re spending much more when you go over the limit. It’s a tightrope. Noventiq works with cloud-based customers in many industries all around the world. Over the last few years, we’ve heard the following complaints time and time again:

• Cost management is a chore. Since billing and costs data come in provider-specific formats, managing cloud spend can be fairly tricky.
• Intervening when an idle service or virtual machine is identified is a risky business. A simple stop or delete action can throw a spanner into operations.
• Optimising costs across multiple budgets and multiple resources gets more complicated the more providers you use. It’s sometimes not clear how to unpick what each provider is doing, where the overlaps are, and how to ensure you’re running on all cylinders.
• Curbing the use of an unnecessary or sub-optimal resource takes several steps. You have to get to the console, locate the right instances, and intervene with a barrage of clicks or a CLI command.

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Here are our golden rules for customers who are preparing to make the shift to cloud, and for those who are already there, but feeling baffled and pinched by their providers.

Planning to make the hop to cloud?

If you simply opt to lift and shift, it’s highly likely you won’t be getting the most for the best price. Take a moment to consider what you already have, what you need, and what you might need in the future. Answering these three questions will help to ensure that you can build out your cloud infrastructure so that it’s future-proofed. If you don’t, prepare to pay over the odds. Noventiq can help to assess your needs, build a roadmap, and implement the right cloud solutions for you.

Already there, but feeling foggy?

Consider deploying a cloud management tool. Solutions like Astrokite, a can help you by flagging up poor data usage, show you exactly how much money you're losing, and offer you easy-to-deploy alternatives all from one simple user-friendly dashboard.

The bottom line is that if a business is not running on the cloud today, it's missing a huge opportunity to empower the way the organisation works, and prepare for success in an increasingly digital economy. However, failing to look before you leap can leave you with something of an albatross as your business scales. All businesses should make sure they have the right tools in place to avoid the pitfall of becoming a victim of their own success.

Learn more about how Noventiq’s experts can help you to take back control of your cloud plans.

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