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How Software-defined Solutions Make Multicloud
Financially Feasible
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Is cloud repatriation becoming a new trend?
According to a recent TechCrunch article, many
organizations are starting to migrate their
workloads and data out of the public cloud and
back onpremises to "escape out-of-control costs,
deepening complexity and restrictive vendor
lock-in."While there have been some stories in
the press and on social media about a great cloud
exodus, it may be
a bit overblown. Both the Dell 2022 GDPI Index
and ESG's IT Spending
Intentions Survey report most organizations have
been running about a 50/50 mix of workloads
between their on-premises infrastructure and the
public cloud for several years, and this shows no
signs of abating. Still, the issues of rising
public cloud costs, increased cloud complexity
and cloud vendor lock-in are all valid concerns.
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Cloud Cost Challenges Abound
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Let's first look at costs. As I wrote about in a
past blog, an Andreesen Horowitz report points to
the fiscal wizardry involved with trying to
accurately predict multi-year cloud spending when
negotiating contracts with cloud service
providers. In short, most organizations either
underestimate or overestimate their cloud
resource consumption requirements, resulting in
higher cloud spending or a forfeiture of unused
cloud credits. Another challenge is prudent
fiscal management. FinOps or "financial
operations" refers to a process whereby the
finance department works collectively with IT
operations and engineering teams to optimize
cloud costs. It entails deploying tools to
monitor and manage cloud costs, establishing
cloud cost governance policies and communicating
with stakeholders to reduce waste and reallocate
resources. According to ESG, those organizations
that have implemented a "FinOps" model for
managing cloud resource consumption have either
met or exceeded their expectations with saving
money in the cloud. On the other hand, those that
have not adopted FinOps tend to spend more in the
cloud than they anticipated. While no silver
bullet, FinOps at least provides a methodology
for enabling organizations to maintain an active
line of sight into their
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cloud spending patterns so they can fine tune as
needed. Without such fiscal controls in place, it
is more likely for cloud spending to go off the
rails. Cloud Complexity
As cited in the TechCrunch article, increased
cloud complexity is another big hurdle that
organizations often face. Deploying workloads in
the cloud creates additional data silos that need
to be managed, protected and secured.
Organizations need to determine what solutions
they are going to use to manage cloud storage, as
well as tools for protecting data and enabling
cyber resilience for multiple workload types
(e.g., VMs, Kubernetes containers, SaaS). And
given the persistent concerns around cloud costs,
it's especially important these solutions help
optimize cloud resource consumption. IT
automation is yet another key element for any
modern infrastructure solution. With IT
administrative resources stretched thin, it's
critically important to adopt solutions that make
multicloud management easier for IT teams. This
requires a consistent set of tools that help
drive more automation into storage management,
data protection and cyber resiliency for
workloads wherever they reside across on-premises
data centers, edge locations and public cloud
environments.
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Dell has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
to deliver a comprehensive set of storage, data
protection and cyber recovery solutions through
the AWS marketplace which address many of the
issues around growing cloud costs and IT
complexity. Available in the AWS marketplace,
they deliver the consistent operations,
efficiencies and automation needed to ensure the
performance, protection and security of workloads
and data wherever they reside across multicloud
environments. Dell PowerFlex is a
software-defined storage solution that provides
highly scalable and flexible storage options that
can easily accommodate the changing demands of
modern enterprise workloads. With support for
block and file services, PowerFlex optimizes
cloud resource costs since compute and storage
resources can be scaled independently to match
the unique requirements of the underlying
workload (VMs, Kubernetes containers and Amazon
EKS). PowerFlex simplifies management through a
unified control plane, enabling IT teams to
easily configure, monitor and optimize their
storage environment from a single interface,
whether workloads are in edge locations, in the
data center or in AWS. Dell PowerProtect Cyber
Recovery and PowerProtect Data Protection
Solutions are also available in the AWS
marketplace environment. From virtual machines
and Kubernetes containers to SaaS, organizations
can simplify the protection and cyber resiliency
of workloads wherever they reside and do so with
a common set of tools that deliver increased
automation, operational consistency and IT
simplicity. Dell data protection solution
offerings also deliver up to 77 less cloud data
protection resource costs in AWS, helping
organizations optimize cloud storage resource
consumption and lower costs.
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Explore Your Multicloud Options
Combined, Dell PowerFlex and PowerProtect data
protection offerings for AWS give organizations
the software-defined capabilities they need to
address many of the challenges associated with
increasing cloud and data center costs and
complexity. By providing a more automated way to
ensure application workload performance,
protection and resiliency, while optimizing
resource consumption, these solutions enable
organizations to simplify IT, lower costs and
better align cloud infrastructure spending with
actual business needs.
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