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Evaluate Your Security before
Switching to Cloud
Hybrid is the future, and after the Another concern is to monitor APM, ARM, and AIOps can help

Russia-Ukraine scenario, the cloud infrastructure utilization i n i m p r o v e d c l o u d
CIOs strategy of a Hybrid and effectively use it. This i n f r a s t r u c t u r e a n d
environment has further gained becomes more acute in the case Application manageability,

prominence. Although this of a multi-cloud scenario. v i s i b i l i t y , a n d c o n t r o l ,
strategy can vary from one Some of the primary reasons including cost control/saving.
industry to another and depends for hidden cloud costs are: Trends & Roadblocks
on the use case. One should have The data egress-ingress
a clearly defined purpose and charge. Lack of awareness Demand for data storage will

objective that they are trying to a m o n g t h e C l o u d keep growing in the coming
meet by going on a Cloud or Infrastructure team to utilize years, notwithstanding the
Hybrid scenario. the cloud efficiently and in a continuing impact of COVID-19.

Here's Why Companies Can't cost-effective manner. Analyst firm IDC estimates that
Rely on Cloud Alone: Spinning too many server global data generation will grow

Regulatory and compliance instances that never get used at a CAGR of 23% through 2025,
outpacing the 19.2% CAGR of
auditors handling is the most is an obvious hidden cost.

obvious reason owing to When the unused resources global storage capacity.
which many sectors are still are not de-provisioned, the The growing adoption of Cloud,
reluctant in switching to cloud bill keeps adding up. Lack of Hybrid IT, and edge computing
completely. communication between h a s s h a p e d t h e s t o r a g e
users, infrequent auditing,
D a t a p r i v a c y a n d and lack of automated cloud requirements of enterprises.
confidentiality issues. W h i l e s t o r a g e c o u l d b e
de-provisioning capability
Data retained in the same causes the service to remain centralized at an on-premise
r e g i o n a l o n g w i t h D R available, subscribe to, and data center in the past, a
availability in different be billed to the organization. decentralized (Cloud or Hybrid)
seismic zones within the Don't forget free products storage infrastructure is now the
same country. may be provided for a few norm.

Many legacy applications months or a year later they With ML-AI, Data Science, and

need to be redefined before will be billed, and this is often
going on the cloud, or else the skipped during budgeting. Augmented Reality, there is an
true potential of the cloud The cloud may be free to even more pressing need to
may not be leveraged. enter, but it can cost to leave. b a l a n c e t h i s t e c h n o l o g y
Vendors may keep this cost explosion and storage needs.
Hidden Cost of the Cloud

Infrastructure large enough that the cost of
switching to another vendor
The hidden cost or surprise billing may be orders of magnitude
is still a concern in the cloud. higher than the resulting cost

savings.

June 2022