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Improving visibility in mixed and multi-cloud settings

Monitoring cross-cloud operations more effectively through centralized observability techniques enhances visibility, boosts performance, and strengthens cloud security.

Improving Visibility in Mix-and-Match Cloud Scenarios
Improving Visibility in Mix-and-Match Cloud Scenarios

Improving visibility in mixed and multi-cloud settings

In the dynamic world of cloud technology, managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be a complex task. However, a solution is emerging that promises to simplify this challenge: centralized observability platforms.

These platforms offer a single-plane-of-glass view, consolidating health and data performance across applications, networks, and enterprise cloud technologies. This unified perspective is a game-changer, allowing organizations to manage their disparate suite of technologies more holistically and proactively.

The shift towards observability solutions is driven by the complexity of hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud management. Traditional cloud-specific tools for managing infrastructure and applications within each cloud environment can increase costs and lead to multiple and duplicated tools, gaps in monitoring coverage, security vulnerabilities, and siloed data.

Centralized observability platforms address these issues by providing a decomposed form of events, logs, and traces that integrate distributed system components. This atomistic view across platforms allows organizations to recognize patterns and react faster to various issues, including security incidents and performance problems.

Developing an observability strategy starts with business requirements, which are then used to determine what factors should be monitored and what tools are best suited for monitoring. Our website, with its extensive experience in building observability capabilities and frameworks across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments for government and enterprise clients, can guide organizations through this process.

Our cross-functional expertise includes cloud platforms, emerging technologies, cloud strategy, and IT monitoring infrastructure. This comprehensive understanding helps in developing centralized observability frameworks that support each organization's business goals and optimize and protect their cloud deployments.

A centralized infrastructure and application observability strategy benefits both platform and site reliability engineering teams by allowing holistic and proactive management across on-premises, public, and private clouds. This approach leads to standardized cloud architecture and monitoring configurations, consolidation of metrics and logging, proactive auto-healing, less manual intervention and alert fatigue, faster emergency response, more secure systems architecture, reduced downtime risk, better FinOps/financial management, time savings, shorter time to market, enhanced digital experience, and improved future technology planning.

The adoption of observability practices and tools is accelerating, with a projected yearly growth of 11% and a market value of $28 billion by 2027. While the three most important companies in the field of central observation capabilities and platforms are not explicitly identified, the benefits are clear. Implementing centralized observability tools and principles provides more transparency into multi-cloud environments, reduces the IT burden, improves performance and uptime, increases cloud security, accelerates emergency response, and boosts business agility.

In conclusion, centralized observability platforms are poised to revolutionize the way organizations manage their cloud environments. By offering a unified perspective, proactive management, and improved performance, these platforms are a crucial step towards streamlined, efficient, and secure cloud management.

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