Opportunities and Challenges with Hybrid Multi-cloud Solutions

Businesses are rapidly transforming to the digital era. Companies are reinventing processes and cultures to deliver enhanced experience to their customers using digital technologies. This drives the need to build new capabilities and modernize existing applications using the latest technology more quickly. Enterprises are trying to stay ahead of the competition. Being late to market can mean missed opportunities, lost revenue, or, even worse, going out of business. Companies who have been agile and successful are leveraging cloud at the heart of this digital transformation. Furthermore, they are taking a hybrid multi-cloud strategy and approach consisting of on-premises, private, and public clouds to drive better efficiency, performance, and cost optimization. For a business rapidly transforming into a digital enterprise that relies on a hybrid multi-cloud environment to do so, the security threats and attack surface become greater. It is critical to stay ahead of threats, protect valuable data and resources, and achieve regulatory compliance. This chapter discusses digitization trends, the hybrid cloud strategy adopted by enterprises, and the related security challenges.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:

• The evolution of the cloud
• The digitization trends that drive opportunities and challenges for hybrid cloud solutions
• Security in the digital hybrid multi-cloud era