• Yogesh Anyapanawar, Founder & CEO at Datamotive


• 31.10.2022 01:30 pm
#cloud

Right now, hybrid cloud is all about connectivity that is enabled by “the wire” between clouds. This wire connects clouds together, but is limited, resulting in unreliable workload portability and service level agreements (SLAs). There is little action to remediate these challenges among existing solutions. The problem is that these challenges are growing exponentially along with increased hybrid cloud adoption among enterprises, which demands a solution now—not later.

Continue reading as we explore a guaranteed 10-minute hybrid cloud disaster recovery from any cloud or platform,  irrespective of platform and size.

What Challenges are Enterprises Struggling with in the Hybrid Cloud?

A summary of challenges encountered by enterprises in the hybrid cloud is listed below:

• Workload Portability – Business workloads cannot be easily ported between clouds or platforms. This lack of portability is due to a lack of cloud-agnostic and platform-agnostic recovery processes.
• Scaling Across Clouds – Scaling services across numerous cloud platforms is tedious and time-consuming.
• Too Many Variables – Too many variables are included in the recovery workflow. Data is copied more than once, with more than one data copy needed for recovery, and multiple processes for each data copy. Enterprises need to consolidate all of this into one process.
• Workload Size – The size of the workload is a constraint, due to lofty egress costs during data retrieval from source.
• Inconsistent SLAs – Service level agreements are not consistent enough for enterprises to trust and rely on. This is due to loose definitions, such as the promise of real-time recovery without defining the actual time period.
• Cost-to-Value – Hybrid cloud disaster recovery (DR) has an extremely poor cost-to-value ratio.

What Regulators and CIOs Recommend for Successful Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Chief information officers (CIOs) and regulatory bodies have defined the specific requirements needed for a successful hybrid cloud adoption:

A solution that eliminates cloud boundaries and facilitates seamless workload portability, eases operational complexity, and is automatically aligned with regulatory requirements at the technology-level.

Let us explore each of these requirements in more depth:

• Eliminate Cloud Boundaries – Enterprises must have the freedom to choose a cloud service provider (CSP) based on workload requirements. The entire workload—including OS, platform, application, and data—should offer seamless portability as a singular unit.
• Operational Ease – Regardless of the source cloud, the tools, processes, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) used must stay consistent.
• Meeting Regulatory Requirements – APRA has one regulation to consider. Under this regulation, enterprises must develop contingency plans to offer a cloud computing service via alternative means. This includes transitioning between CSPs or moving operations in-house or on-premises, if necessary.
• Stay Ahead, Innovation – Cloud portability is classed as an innovation trigger in thinktank Gartner’s July 2021 Hype Scale report. This reflects greater digital maturity in enterprises that enable cloud portability.

How Can Enterprises Achieve Success in Hybrid Cloud Adoption?

For a successful and efficient hybrid cloud adoption, challenges must be resolved. This includes seamless workload portability, consistent recovery SLAs, and promotion of operational ease.

Datamotive gives organizations the freedom to choose their desired CSP depending on the workload, and to accelerate migrations between clouds. Resultingly, the availability of real-time data improves, with operational efficiencies reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 60%.

Rather than leveraging multiple tools and processes, Datamotive consolidates. Disaster recovery (DR) is possible using a single site, under a single SLA, via a single process. This greatly reduces complexity, while increasing the velocity of recovery completion.

Enterprises can rely on Datamotive as a fully compliant recovery platform. It recovers not only the data, but the system compliance configurations that govern data usage. Non-disruptive drills for compliance are available, with business service-aligned disaster recovery plans.

Successful Hybrid Cloud Adoption Starts in Datamotive

Datamotive can be used to help any organization achieve its hybrid cloud computing goals.

Disaster recovery is completely cloud-agnostic, with no dependency on proprietary tools. DR uses a policy-based protection against ransomware attacks via encrypted, immutable, air-gapped workload backups. This means Datamotive can recover to any cloud in 10 minutes guaranteed, with 30% lower effort and 40% acceleration to digital transformations.

Analytics anywhere offers a true definition for “real-time data” as a 10-minute availability window. With inconsistent SLAs in other solutions, this gives enterprises the peace of mind they require. Summarily, data recovery for real-time decisions is completed in no more than 10 minutes.

Datamotive disaster recovery configurations include:

• Recovery groups aligned with SLAs
• Workload configurations such as type or subnet
• Recovery site selection
• Replication times setup by the workload
• Script-based load balancers, DNS entries, and platform or application inter-dependencies
• Reverse replication configurations

Eliminate physical disaster recovery sites for a 60% lower TCO. This is achieved by reducing operational complexity and increasing control using self-service models.

Compliance is maintained natively, including PCI-DSS and HIPAA, across workloads and databases.

Leverage a combination of pre- and post-script features to control load balancer configurations, DNS entries and interdependencies. This results in true, single-click recovery to any cloud.

Datamotive focuses on sustainability by shutting down assets at a recovery site until the process is complete. This reduces wasted expense and energy usage, contributing to our sustainability objectives.

Give your hybrid cloud a boost with seamless portability across clouds, with no rehydration requirements and agent-less operations—request a demo of Datamotive.