Balancing Speed and Risk with Multi-Cloud Agility
The paradox of innovation is that your success depends on moving quickly — but almost every increase in speed can also bring new risks.
One key strategy for increasing speed without bringing on undue risk is to harness the agility of a multi-cloud approach.
The paradox of innovation is that your success depends on moving quickly — but almost every increase in speed can also bring new risks.
One key strategy for increasing speed without bringing on undue risk is to harness the agility of a multi-cloud approach.
Harness the agility of multi-cloud
Multi-cloud is an IT strategy where an organization uses one or more cloud services from more than one cloud platform. This can include any combination of private and public cloud platforms. A number of trends are converging to make multi-cloud the cornerstone of a successful digital transformation and of a modern, scalable data platform.
Flexibility
Research shows that 93% of enterprises are moving to a multi-cloud strategy. Cost is no longer the main driver – it’s the speed and agility that the cloud enables.
A multi-cloud environment lets you build choice into your architecture, supporting adaptability, responsiveness, and resiliency in the face of the unknown. And a multi-cloud strategy lets you move forward with more speed in a number of ways.
We discuss with Forrester what companies should be looking for in a multi-cloud platform.
The best of each cloud
MongoDB Atlas Multi-Cloud Clusters let you support multiple workloads with the same underlying cloud database. This gives you simple, ready access to best-of-breed technology on different clouds. Need Google Cloud’s AI/ML capabilities, Lambda functions on AWS, and Microsoft Azure’s integrated development environment tools? Atlas is the only solution that allows that flexibility with one database.
Gary Hoberman, CEO and Founder, Unqork
Data mobility
Multi-cloud clusters give you the freedom to move from one cloud to another, worldwide, with no downtime.
Cross-cloud resiliency
To preserve high availability and guard against outages, you want to avoid dependence on any one cloud service in any area. Multi-cloud lets you choose multiple providers in each geography, spreading outage risk while preserving the required data sovereignty. A backup cloud – or two – with a secondary provider can guard against outages, enable better disaster recovery, and support business continuity.
Avoid lock-in
The flip side of data mobility is the risk of becoming too invested in a single cloud provider. There are reasons you might want to get out. For example, the provider starts competing with you; or a business acquisition requires you to use a different provider; or another provider offers technologies or services that your current provider doesn’t. A multi-cloud strategy makes data easily portable from one cloud to another so you can avoid ever being locked in.
This white paper explores how a data platform can accelerate development while reducing risks.
Multi-cloud data management made easy
Multi-cloud distribution can be enabled for both new and existing clusters in MongoDB Atlas. Multi-cloud clusters come with all the features that our customers know and love, including built-in security defaults, fully managed backup and restores, automated patches and upgrades, intelligent performance advice, and more.
Whether you’re a startup just getting off the ground or a global enterprise in the midst of a multi-year cloud transformation initiative, MongoDB’s multi-cloud database management solution abstracts away the toughest roadblock to unlocking your multi-cloud strategy.