Software Engineering Insights

Digital transformation and cloud migration were the survival doors for businesses to escape the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Businesses have some obvious reasons to adopt the cloud and migrate to it. Improved IT operations, infrastructure management, reduced CapEx/OpEx, security & compliance are some of the reasons that ain’t letting the upward trajectory of cloud service adoption slow down. 

Discussions about the future of cloud implementation always involve the building and operating of DevOps platforms in cloud-native environments, which is also known as CloudOps. However, the proper know-how to fully grasp the long-term impact, challenges, and solutions of this technology are quite limited in the software industry.

The worldwide public cloud services market is expected to be valued at $304.9 million by 2021. Businesses are going to increase their spending on the public cloud with SaaS, LaaS, DaaS, and IaaS services in the mainstream. 

COVID-19 pandemic grievously affected businesses in 2020. Unfortunately, the situation has worsened in 2021. Businesses, thus, are taking the road to digitization to minimize the impact of the pandemic.

Enterprises are realizing the importance of cloud infrastructure, like never before. They are leveraging the best of all cloud providers to optimize cost, performance, monitoring, and disaster management. That is why multi-cloud platforms are a great hit amongst the IT team of enterprises (of all levels). 

Public cloud computing is one of the fastest-growing segments of IT spend. With this, the CIOs have got a major responsibility of investing the budgets wisely. Availability, data sovereignty, performance, regulatory compliance are some of the factors that are strictly considered while choosing a cloud provider and investing in its services. 

Cloud cost optimization in simple terms is attaining the proper balance between performance and cost and then maintaining it. It is the process of decreasing overall cloud spend by distinguishing mismanaged resources, discarding waste, holding capacity for higher discounts, and right-sizing computing services to sales. 

Public cloud services and their on-demand, scalable models are enabling organizations to achieve cost-efficiency and business continuity. With public cloud being the ‘new normal’, organizations are improving their digital transformation plans. 

Being on the cloud comes with a cost. And as more and more organizations switch to the cloud, there arises a need to have a mechanism to control the rising cloud costs. 

Most IT departments tend to disregard the fact that cloud resources are metered which often leads to a spike in data fee. To this end, companies need to hire a cloud economist.