Is your Cloud becoming a storm?

The race to the Cloud for some organisations has proved too quick, the greatest concerns typically are around:

Security: Moving legacy apps to the Cloud that have not been designed for this purpose leads to greater risk of data breaches, compromised credentials and  fragmented authentication. The cost of remediating the damage from a cyber attack averages $3m but this pales into insignficance compared to reputational loss.

Cost management and containment: The ability to scale on-demand and at speed without the right control mechanisms in place has seen Cloud costs spiralling. Organisations struggle to define and predict resource requirements.

Lack of resources/expertise: As more workloads move to the Cloud organisations are struggling to keep up with new features and thus not realising the full benefits of their investments.

Governance/Control: IT governance should ensure IT assets are implemented and used according to agreed-upon policies and procedures. IT does not always have full control over the provisioning, de-provisioning, and operations of infrastructure. This has increased the difficulty for IT to provide the governance, compliance, risks and data quality management required

The above is leading to as increase Cloud repatriation. Is this a white flag of sort? Can some of these organisations actually have remained in the Cloud?

Partnering and tooling play a massive part in addressing these concerns, however, they tend to work better when done together. Organisations require partners who can deliver an end to end approach that who will not only assess their Cloud infrastructure holistically but more importantly work to understand the people and process that underpin business strategy. By achieving this the correct tooling can be selected, architected, deployed, managed and optimised which will ultimately give organisations the confidence underpinned by data to continue their Cloud journey.