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28% of companies are using four or more public/private clouds today, but that is expected to more than double in two years to 65%. "As cloud service providers improve their security and data protection offerings, decision-makers increasingly realize they can't protect their firms' data on-premises as well as they can in the cloud. But migrating existing IAM tools and processes to multicloud IaaS, PaaS, and private clouds creates problems that firms must solve" according to the Forrester study. "According to the Forrester study, firms can't just lift-and-shift existing IAM tools from on-premises to the cloud," said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity.
In recent years, Microsoft's security offerings have shifted from security for Microsoft products and services to security from Microsoft for the full range of products and services an enterprise needs to protect. Last year Microsoft Defender for Cloud added features for managing and monitoring security settings on AWS as well as on Azure; now it covers GCP as well, with a dashboard showing your security settings and whether you're following best practices across all three clouds.
CloudBolt Software released its latest research report, examining industry sentiment in specific dimensions of hybrid cloud/multi-cloud, and aiming to uncover unmet cloud needs that hinder cloud innovation. These limitations are caused by too many groups across an enterprise using too many different tools and clouds, with 80% struggling to achieve comprehensive visibility into cloud usage and spend.
Cloud providers claimed computing and storage cloud environments were fully redundant, and a single-cloud provider using multiple data centers is safe. Michael Gibbs, CEO of Go Cloud Architects, a global organization providing training in cloud computing, said during an email conversation that he wanted to set the record straight when it comes to cloud computing environments.
The research showed that multicloud is currently the most commonly used deployment model and adoption will jump to 64% in the next three years. The complexity of managing across cloud borders remains a major challenge for enterprises, with 87% agreeing that multicloud success requires simpler management across mixed-cloud infrastructures.
The research reveals the challenges organizations face as they overwhelmingly turn to multicloud architectures to achieve the agility and scalability needed to keep up with the pace of digital transformation. Multicloud strategies have led to a surge in complexity, with infrastructure teams drowning in data as they try to monitor and manage their constantly changing environments.
Enterprises in the U.S. are increasingly embracing multicloud operating models and are looking to cloud service providers to help them choose the right clouds for the right workloads, according to a report published by Information Services Group. Today, enterprises are running on multiple clouds that need to be interconnected, integrated and managed, and they are turning to providers for help.
A majority of IT leaders surveyed by Valtix said they realize their employees lack the necessary skills to manage multicloud security. A report released Wednesday by multicloud security provider Valtix looks at the security challenges involved in a multicloud strategy.
"We're using more and more cloud services and SaaS applications, we're more interconnected and we're spending more time online, we have more multicloud environments and at the same time the cyberattacks and crimes are ever increasing," CVP of Microsoft's Identity division Joy Chik told TechRepublic. With many different identities, resources, applications and data sets to secure, organizations are looking for a unified way to manage access control as a first line of defense, using identity as the control plane.
Making the decision to implement a multi-cloud strategy is difficult. From the decision to pursue a multi-cloud journey to defining the requirements to laying the foundation to identifying and deploying applications and services to the multi-cloud environment, the process requires a solid strategy and flawless execution to succeed, say experts at Taos.