By K. Parthasarathy
Cloud computing has existed for almost two decades and is still making waves in digital transformation. Going beyond the search for innovative methods, cloud technology has elevated business operations, driven efficiency, and maintained a competitive edge across various industry spectrums. Among the most transformative advancements, cloud technology can empower companies to achieve goals by traversing through obstacles seamlessly. Organizations need to adopt innovative technologies that can simplify, automate, and optimize their cloud operations, revolutionizing from the ground up. Here is a rundown of some of the trends that are revolutionizing cloud solutions:
Hyperconverged Infrastructure:
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) combines networks, servers, and storage into a distributed infrastructure platform with intelligent software to create flexible building blocks. Hyperconverged infrastructure simplifies cloud management on-premises, enabling faster provisioning, lower costs, and higher performance. It leverages virtualization to pool resources, making them more flexible and scalable. HCI has become increasingly popular for its ability to support virtualized workloads, making it a fundamental component of many cloud-native and hybrid cloud strategies.
Multi-cloud Management Tools:
Multi-cloud management tools are tools and procedures that allow businesses to monitor and secure applications and workloads across multiple clouds from a single dashboard. These tools are used to monitor, secure, and optimize cross-cloud deployments. The primary goal of a multi-cloud strategy is to provide flexibility to operate with the best environment for each workload, ensuring data protection, regulatory adherence, and user experience. Multi-cloud management tools empower organizations to leverage the benefits of multiple cloud providers while maintaining control, security, and cost-effectiveness across their deployments.
Causal AI:
Causal AI is a form of machine learning that focuses on understanding and reasoning about the cause and effect of an event through its underlying variables, thereby establishing a more profound relationship of the event being occurred. It aims to build AI systems that can predict what will happen and how it can be influenced by understanding the root causes, such as performance issues, security threats, and resource inefficiencies of a company. By leveraging the structure of interconnected systems, causal AI uses this knowledge to identify the relationships between different variables to simulate different scenarios and their subsequent consequences.
Cloud-native Development:
Cloud-native development is building and updating apps by leveraging techniques like DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, serverless functions, and containers. It is centered on designing dynamic, scalable, and resilient applications in cloud environments for companies to innovate rapidly and optimize resource usage, reducing time to market for new applications and features.
Cloud Security:
It refers to the practices, technologies, and policies implemented to protect cloud environments’ data, applications, and infrastructure. It is touted to be the subset of cybersecurity, and its goal is to protect against cyber-attacks and threats by using encryption, authentication, authorization, firewalls, antivirus, intrusion detection, and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and security information and event management (SIEM) tools to safeguard cloud assets.
Businesses are on a perpetual quest for innovative solutions that can elevate their operational efficiency and ensure they maintain a competitive edge in the market. As mentioned earlier, the five technologies are transforming the foundations of cloud environments and how businesses utilize them to enhance their capabilities, improve their operational efficiency, and ensure security fortress in the dynamic world of the cloud by harnessing its boundless potential.
About the Author:
Parthasarathy, Chief Delivery Officer at Novac Technology Solutions, completed an academic degree in Commerce from Bharathidasan University, He now leads the delivery of all client services across verticals, including digital, technology, and operations, and the views expressed in this article are his own
