IDC Multicloud

In this presentation, you will hear the outcome of the latest IBM C-suite study around Hybrid cloud. In addition you will hear about the challenges and opportunities IBM see in the cloud market. Topics in scope: extended cloud, digital infrastructure, Data compliance and regulations and cost management. 

Industry experience shows that when the journey to cloud is understood and undertaken in a planned manner, they can provide companies innovative ways to deliver existing services, whilst also providing rapid access to new capability, help to reduce costs, accelerate time to market, and drive efficiencies. 

• Transformation and Change is not just about the technology it's about the journey from AS-IS to TO-BE and impact across the company.
• A TO-BE model shows how an organization should be supported by its employees and its organizational structure to deliver and execute the organization's future strategy. 
• Empower and accelerate cloud adoption at scale though effective change. 

• Using data to increase your cloud confidence, avoid cloud sprawl, drive efficiencies and be future ready, Now.

While multi-cloud deployments, be they for redundancy, breadth of functionality, or pricing, have become commonplace, these deployments don't stop with using multiple core cloud infrastructures. Developers are realizing the combination of the central cloud together with an intelligent edge cloud at the perimeter of the network creates the most powerful, flexible, performant, and secure ecosystem for deploying the best applications

• In preparing for the accelerating shift towards digitalization, much has been accomplished. So far, a fair amount of focus and change has been applied to the development cycle, specifically through Devops.
• In IT operations, where lights are kept on and foundational services continue to run, there is however a need to clarify the direction in which the organization must move. 
• With a shift towards a substantial cloud workload share, care will need to be taken to transform in a way where both traditional systems and cloud native are well managed. Initial approaches have been to create new teams to build and manage new - in isolation. However, it is not scalable or affordable to maintain two sets of People, Processes and Technology at this scale. 
• In this presentation I will discuss and advise of the direction that needs to be taken to achieve this transformation for IT Operations. 

It’s a fact of life that moving to cloud optimally requires a multi-cloud strategy. The question is what is a multi-cloud strategy and how are customers typically approaching it? Is there only one answer or many? Join this session to hear about what Oracle is seeing in the multi-cloud marketplace, what approaches OCI customers are taking in a diverse IT estate to migrate to cloud, leveraging a best of breed strategy to achieve their business goals by using the best tool for the job at hand.

Listen to how F5 is positioning itself with cloud-native tools to help its customers make application security and delivery easy, alleviating the complexity in transitioning to modern containerised applications no matter if it’s a edge location, datacenter or a multi-cloud environment.

As companies are adopting to the cloud, they need to make sure they have a strategy to secure that they are continuing to own their data. Adding on the complexity of multicloud, there is a lot of pitfalls of ensuring freedom to move and having access to and full ownership of your data. It’s important to build the strategy and architecture in a way that will ensure you are a truly connected company that always will have access to YOUR data.

Hybrid and multi cloud architectures empowers organizations to distribute their workloads across multiple cloud environments so they can get the biggest bang for their buck while mitigating risks associated with individual cloud environments. But it also creates challenges to your ability to achieve unified visibility, governance and security across your clouds.