As companies navigate the evolving cloud landscape, the call for unified, standardized management tools is only going to strengthen.
Amid this growing complexity, the cloud skills gap just keeps widening. 85% of IT executives find the lack of cloud skills and expertise to be a hindrance in their company’s ability to meet business goals. One way to meet the growing demand for cloud skills, especially amid an evolving landscape, is to upskill or retrain the existing staff with each emerging trend or tech. However, that can itself be quite daunting in terms of resources needed for training as well as incentivising and motivating the staff. A more sustainable approach to making sure that the available cloud skill pool remains adept with the emerging cloud technologies and trends is through consolidation and standardization.
As companies shift from homogenous, single cloud environments to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, their expanding cloud tool portfolios create complexities in integration, data migration, and interoperability. Companies may believe that with all these disparate tools available in the market, they will somehow need fewer technical people to manage the cloud. While it seems plausible on paper, the reality is different. When companies have dedicated tools for each use case, for instance, a dedicated tool for cost management, another for networking management, yet another for analytics, and so on, they need relevant people who know how to work with all these tools.
Each cloud and the set of tools dedicated to it come with unique interfaces, protocols, configurations, and management methods, making seamless collaboration between different systems and environments complicated. Companies need specialized expertise to ensure compatibility and operational efficiency across these varied platforms — expertise that there’s already a dearth of. Without the right skills, security, governance, and cost management challenges amplify for companies already struggling to achieve a cohesive and efficient cloud ecosystem.
And then, as cloud portfolios further expand or evolve due to unforeseen circumstances, like acquisitions and closures, companies must re-invest in acquiring new talent or retraining existing staff. This hunt for the right talent simply never ends, which, in time, will pave the way for the unification and consolidation of disparate cloud tools. In the future, companies will be looking for one-stop-shop tools that have embedded in them all the features needed for infrastructure deployment and related processes. Consolidation can streamline operations, reduce redundancies, and mitigate the complexities arising from using multiple disparate tools. So, as the cloud inevitably shifts from complexity to simplicity, more consolidated cloud tools are bound to emerge.
Speaking of consolidation, the latest buzzword in the cloud landscape is the idea of a “super cloud”. It adds a new cloud abstraction layer for centrally managing the underlying services of multiple hyper-scale clouds. While super cloud’s abstraction can mask the complexities of underlying diverse cloud technologies and platforms to provide some commonality, it often does so at the expense of independence and transparency. As past incidents, such as the Coinbase outage right after its Super Bowl ad, have revealed that even with hyperscalers like AWS, infrastructure strategy with a single point of failure can result in an absolute disaster.
Consequently, cloud environments must also eventually shift to an agnostic approach to infrastructure, where companies can utilize cloud providers as commodities and build a cloud agnostic ecosystem on top, so they can then deploy applications and data wherever they need to whenever, regardless of the underlying infrastructure.
The emma platform is a holistic cloud management application that consolidates cloud management, cost optimization, and cloud networking management, all under a single platform. It allows organizations of all sizes to manage and optimize their cloud environments, on-premise, public, and edge, through a standardized interface, eliminating the usual complexities and incompatibility issues of cloud environments and platforms. The emma platform provides:
An end-to-end solution by consolidating cloud management, cost management, network management, and governance capabilities into a single solution.
A single dashboard for monitoring performance and analyzing resource utilization.
A standardized, no-code approach to creating and deploying infrastructure across any cloud within your cloud ecosystem, all with just a few clicks and no coding or technical expertise needed.
A private network backbone extending secure and reliable connectivity between all clouds to bring the entire consolidated cloud ecosystem together.
As companies navigate the evolving cloud landscape, the call for unified, standardized management tools is only going to strengthen. End-to-end, consolidated tools like the emma platform can help organizations stay on top of the latest cloud paradigms, without investing heavily in acquiring or retraining staff in response to every emerging buzzword and hype. With the emma platform, you have a timeless cloud ally in an ever-changing landscape.
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