Does Your App Need A Multi-Cloud Strategy?

An alumnus of Sri Venkateswara University, Kiran is a scalable cloud architect. He was previously a senior software engineer at Accenture Technology Solutions.

- Kiran Darisi

A few years ago, the biggest concern of an enterprise company when it came to hosting their data was the cost. Private data centers cost a lot in terms of real estate and in terms of people who could manage these data centers. But with the advent of IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) companies, enterprises got an option to pay them to do the hard work of managing the physical servers and to host their data on an already setup, easy-to-use environment.

With more and more apps moving from their own datacenter to a public cloud model, the main concern has also moved from cost of hosting to security and availability. Availability is the single most important factor that determines an application’s success. Being available doesn’t just mean having a backup running somewhere that can be booted up in-case of a downtime. It also means being available in different locations.