{"id":4692,"date":"2019-09-11T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sifytechnologies.com\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2022-06-23T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T12:45:01","slug":"orchestrate-and-manage-workloads-in-multi-cloud-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.sifytechnologies.com\/europe\/blog\/orchestrate-and-manage-workloads-in-multi-cloud-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"How to orchestrate and manage workloads in multi-cloud environments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Multiple business applications of an enterprise are usually housed on-premise and on-cloud infrastructure. In a multi-cloud environment, multiple cloud providers build the IT portfolio, which would mean that the company must manage multiple service level agreements. Technically, this environment provides the enterprise with a workload migration capability between different cloud services on demand, depending upon which is beneficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if the integration of IT systems on a multi-cloud environment are not tightly coupled, it may lead to various issues.&nbsp; In a hybrid environment, clouds can be interconnected, but in a multi-cloud environment, alternative measures must be taken as there are multiple service providers. Integration and orchestration are the standard measures employed to manage workloads in a multi-cloud environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A multi-cloud is not a hybrid cloud<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A hybrid cloud would have different models for deployments in public and private clouds, but a multi-cloud environment would have multiple service providers who may be delivering services using the same type of deployment.&nbsp; At an advanced level, the tapestry of a multi-cloud system can contain categories of private cloud, hosted private, hyperscale cloud, and hybrid clouds with each having multiple vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multi-cloud management is challenging as different clouds may not be interconnected as in a hybrid cloud.&nbsp; This adds complexity to the management of resources, capacities, services, compliances, and finances. For governing resources in a multi-cloud, automation tools are often used.&nbsp; On top of it, orchestration can help streamline the functions of these tools.&nbsp; However, using multiple tools for managing different domains can still be complicated.&nbsp; Deploying automation technologies that can work across environments and help manage assets throughout may be beneficial.&nbsp; This can reduce complexity, enhance performance and strengthen the security of the multi-cloud system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the system to be agile and to maximize the value of a multi-cloud system, the workloads on the cloud should be properly mapped to specific types of clouds.&nbsp; This makes orchestration and management of workloads across multiple clouds easier in an integrated system.&nbsp; With this strategy in place, the user need not jump between different provisions while orchestrating between different workloads.&nbsp; Moreover, integration enables a combined visibility of all resources such that their costs, logs, metrices, and performance indicators, can be accessed through single interface in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Managing a multi-cloud system<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A standard way to approach multi-cloud management would be to create a blueprint for integration and management, in which strategies can be designed for ITSM integration, database monitoring, business process analysis, patch management, and life cycle management.&nbsp; An example of a strategy would be the standardization of resource consumption.&nbsp; A company can standardize the consumption patterns of resources based on the type of cloud and the service provider.&nbsp; For instance, one service provider may be used only for data analytics while others would serve the storage necessities, and a third would be used to work for Artificial intelligence applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be able to manage this multi-cloud environment efficiently, a company needs to have an integrated system of resources.&nbsp; Integration makes it possible to monitor all the available resources, which is essential for the effective functioning of a multi-cloud system.&nbsp; Monitoring enables visibility into cloud networks, specific applications, and even potential threats faced by components of the cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies cannot take a traditional approach to manage the multi-cloud systems because unlike the earlier environments; resources are not homogenous in a multi-cloud environment.&nbsp; A managed multi-cloud in silos with individual tools can be both difficult and costly.&nbsp; Agility and flexibility of a multi-cloud system cannot be ensured if the complexity persists.&nbsp; Integration can help address such issues by making a multi-cloud system appear like a single system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For effective management, the integration should be carried out along six dimensions: organization, business, processes, governance, information, and tools.&nbsp; After integration, an IT administrator can use a single interface to access all resources and take required actions for managing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specific applications can be bundled within containers for the ease of maintenance.&nbsp; This packaging also increases the portability of applications as they separate the applications from their runtime environments.&nbsp; The apps within a container can easily be moved between cloud services while retaining their functionality.&nbsp; Based on individual criteria such as cost, availability, and storage space, the organization can freely select a cloud service provider.&nbsp; Containers are particularly ideal for a microservices environment in which software is built in such a way that the applications are broken down into very small components that are easily portable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A managed multi-cloud service-based environment can always provide agility and a higher level of flexibility when compared to traditional approaches.\u00a0 Orchestration and integration are the keys to successful management of a multi-cloud environment.\u00a0 Orchestration can streamline automation, reduce complexities, enhance performance, and improve security.\u00a0 With integration comes visibility while containerization enables portability and easy maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sify\u2019s many enterprise-class cloud services deliver massive scale and geographic reach with minimum investment. We help design the right solution to fit your needs and budget, with ready-to-use compute, storage and network resources to host your applications on a public, private or hybrid multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sifytechnologies.com\/services\/enterprise-cloud\/\">Click Here to learn more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple business applications of an enterprise are usually housed on-premise and on-cloud infrastructure. In a multi-cloud environment, multiple cloud providers build the IT portfolio, which would mean that the company must manage multiple service level agreements. Technically, this environment provides the enterprise with a workload migration capability between different cloud services on demand, depending upon which is beneficial. However, if the integration of IT systems on a multi-cloud environment are not tightly coupled, it may lead to various issues.&nbsp; In a hybrid environment, clouds can be interconnected, but in a multi-cloud environment, alternative measures must be taken as there are multiple service providers. Integration and orchestration are the standard measures employed to manage workloads in a multi-cloud environment. A multi-cloud is not a hybrid cloud A hybrid cloud would have different models for deployments in public and private clouds, but a multi-cloud environment would have multiple service providers who may be delivering services using the same type of deployment.&nbsp; At an advanced level, the tapestry of a multi-cloud system can contain categories of private cloud, hosted private, hyperscale cloud, and hybrid clouds with each having multiple vendors. Multi-cloud management is challenging as different clouds may not be interconnected as in a hybrid cloud.&nbsp; This adds complexity to the management of resources, capacities, services, compliances, and finances. For governing resources in a multi-cloud, automation tools are often used.&nbsp; On top of it, orchestration can help streamline the functions of these tools.&nbsp; However, using multiple tools for managing different domains can still be complicated.&nbsp; Deploying automation technologies that can work across environments and help manage assets throughout may be beneficial.&nbsp; This can reduce complexity, enhance performance and strengthen the security of the multi-cloud system. For the system to be agile and to maximize the value of a multi-cloud system, the workloads on the cloud should be properly mapped to specific types of clouds.&nbsp; This makes orchestration and management of workloads across multiple clouds easier in an integrated system.&nbsp; With this strategy in place, the user need not jump between different provisions while orchestrating between different workloads.&nbsp; Moreover, integration enables a combined visibility of all resources such that their costs, logs, metrices, and performance indicators, can be accessed through single interface in real time. Managing a multi-cloud system A standard way to approach multi-cloud management would be to create a blueprint for integration and management, in which strategies can be designed for ITSM integration, database monitoring, business process analysis, patch management, and life cycle management.&nbsp; An example of a strategy would be the standardization of resource consumption.&nbsp; A company can standardize the consumption patterns of resources based on the type of cloud and the service provider.&nbsp; For instance, one service provider may be used only for data analytics while others would serve the storage necessities, and a third would be used to work for Artificial intelligence applications. To be able to manage this multi-cloud environment efficiently, a company needs to have an integrated system of resources.&nbsp; Integration makes it possible to monitor all the available resources, which is essential for the effective functioning of a multi-cloud system.&nbsp; Monitoring enables visibility into cloud networks, specific applications, and even potential threats faced by components of the cloud infrastructure. Companies cannot take a traditional approach to manage the multi-cloud systems because unlike the earlier environments; resources are not homogenous in a multi-cloud environment.&nbsp; A managed multi-cloud in silos with individual tools can be both difficult and costly.&nbsp; Agility and flexibility of a multi-cloud system cannot be ensured if the complexity persists.&nbsp; Integration can help address such issues by making a multi-cloud system appear like a single system. 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For the system to be agile and to maximize the value of a multi-cloud system, the workloads on the cloud should be properly mapped to specific types of clouds.&nbsp; This makes orchestration and management of workloads across multiple clouds easier in an integrated system.&nbsp; With this strategy in place, the user need not jump between different provisions while orchestrating between different workloads.&nbsp; Moreover, integration enables a combined visibility of all resources such that their costs, logs, metrices, and performance indicators, can be accessed through single interface in real time. 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