According to a 2020 study, over half of the companies that use the public-cloud said that doing so had improved their ability to meet their business goals. By James Harvey, EMEA CTO at Cisco AppDynamics.
Another recent study found that shifting business applications to the cloud helped boost revenue by 16% and productivity by 19%. Little wonder, that 93% of enterprises today already have a multi-cloud strategy in place and 73% plan to optimise their existing use of the cloud in the future. The advent of sophisticated, scalable cloud architectures — native and hybrid — has enabled organisations to take full advantage of modern cloud infrastructures and microservices architecture to boost productivity and increase cost savings.
Despite these advantages, moving to the cloud still has its headaches for some organisations. Often, in highly complex - cross-platform and multi-site — deployments, it can be hard for IT managers and CIOs to demonstrate the gains from migrating to the cloud.
What’s needed, is a way to monitor, configure and optimise the organisation’s entire technology landscape, through a single lens:
- Scale, adapt and grow with the cloud
- The impact of the pandemic on cloud strategies
- The power of observability and monitoring
Observability is important here because it provides the raw, granular data necessary to gain an in-depth understanding of complex and highly distributed systems. Perhaps even more importantly, businesses are able to identify how well the infrastructure supports the applications, identifying any bottlenecks and load issues, in real-time. Insightful!
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