MARCH 2018CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM8n a world dominated by the proliferation of data, storing it and managing it - with simplicity and security - is a top of mind for every company. This is why, when the public cloud emerged, many companies went all-in, attracted by the flexibility and `the single-pane of glass type' of management that would help them reduces the time and cost investments. However, as the recent AWS outage has shown, over-relying on the public cloud alone can be a risk, leading many companies to adopt a multi-cloud approach. This means many expanded their different groups of applications, data, and business across various clouds - public and private. While this strategy reduces the risk, many large companies have spoken about how it sent them back to a problem they know all too well: complexity. Because, unfortunately, two cloud environments and IT systems are never the same and jumping between them can be a challenge. In some cases, companies say that a multi-cloud environment ended up becoming too complex and not so economical to manage after all.This is where hybrid cloud­ a combination between on-premises and cloud - comes in, which is the strategy most companies will `foreseeably' adopt moving forward. In fact, a recent study from IDC shows that close to 90 percent of companies are pursuing a hybrid cloud strategy. However, hybrid still doesn't solve the incompatibility issue between the various clouds and IT systems, sustaining a cloud and vendor lock-in construct. It's just simpler for enterprises to stay where they are, at the expense of flexibility and scalability.What's needed is an approach where apps can seamlessly commute between WHY CIOS LOOK FOR CLOUD-LIKE CAPABILITIES?Viswanathan IyerVISWANATHAN IYER, VICE PRESIDENT OF ARCHITECTURES, CISCO IIN MYOPINION
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