For ultimate performance, and peace of mind, go multi-cloud
Companies everywhere are increasingly not only migrating their in-house networks to one cloud computing service, but to several of them. The reason? To drastically slash the risk of something going wrong and losing invaluable data, and to improve performance and reliability.
We all know that the major cloud providers, such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce, bend over backwards to tell us how secure their services are and that nothing will ever happen to bring them crashing down. But that’s exactly what happens every now and then. Microsoft’s Azure cloud service was the most recent victim of a widespread outage that affected large numbers of its clients – and in business, as in life, there are just no guarantees.
All it takes is a loose cable or a hard disk that stops working and a company’s critical online operations come to a sudden and distressing halt. That’s not even taking other major risk factors into account, including fierce storms that knock out power supplies and cause infrastructure damage, and the ever-present threat of cyber-attacks that have become a devastating reality for some companies around the world.
When systems go down and a firm can’t email or use messaging services, as well as critical programs and apps, it all spells disaster – especially if they’re running an ecommerce operation. Customers will lose trust in the company and quickly go elsewhere.
The answer: the multi-cloud
Using different cloud computing services can greatly benefit companies in other ways too, such as the speed that web pages load on PCs and mobile devices. It’s hugely important for online operations that pages load in a second or two, because that’s what users expect, according to recent research, and slow sites won’t do much for companies in terms of their search engine rankings.
Developing a multi-cloud strategy also allows companies to take advantage of the different features of a number of cloud services – as not all of them are the same – and improve their own operations, including managing how traffic is routed and handling large volumes of server requests.
Preventing disruption and enhancing services is what the multi-cloud, and every firm, is all about.
