Multicloud is the Future: Ganesh Jayaraman - Head of Cloud Engineering & Operations India, Pegasystems

The head of cloud engineering & operations in India, Pegasystems, Ganesh Jayaraman, is an IT leader with 21+ years of experience in Transforming Global Teams to provide best in class IT service and skilled in building software and process from scratch for enabling clients to migrate from traditional on-premises models to SaaS, PaaS, IaaS cloud-based models.

Ganesh Jayaraman believes that multi-cloud is the future. In the past, when the cloud was a brand new service, startups were quick to jump in as it involved no CAPEX and could spinoff an instance in minutes. However, enterprises played a waiting game and moved only small or newer workloads. Further from there, lift and shift became the standard where enterprises migrated apps and workloads to the cloud. Today, building cloud-native apps is a norm, and hosting on multi-cloud is becoming necessary for enterprise companies.

Initially, enterprises opted for multi-cloud, so they didn't get locked to a single cloud provider and hosted the same setup in an alternate cloud provider to mitigate that risk of downtime with a cloud provider. However, as the Business and cloud have evolved over the last few years, a couple more predominant decisions influence the enterprise to march towards multi-cloud.

Latency & Proximity - The infrastructure region of cloud provider must of as near as possible to the location of your clients. As we live in the speed of light generation, apps need a swift response, and infrastructure closer to the client base would deliver faster client response times.

Specialization - Operate with the best leader in a domain to solve business problems with ease. So enterprises need to build solutions by leveraging the leaders in each space.

As of 2021, more than 40% of enterprises host their data and apps on more than one cloud. This number will double and reach more than 80% by 2025.

If your enterprise hasn't thought about it, now is the time to plan for it, identify independent tools, and start building a diverse team to support the futuristic multi-cloud world.