As your cloud footprint grows, often so does IT complexity
For most companies to remain competitive, cloud is a necessity—one that most businesses and governments can leverage to move faster, in more innovative and game-changing directions. Failing to adopt cloud technology may mean falling behind the competition in an environment where playing catchup can be a no-win situation.
So, what happens if you’ve moved ahead with cloud but are not getting the value you expected? Perhaps your cloud environment is growing quickly—adding data, applications, and architectures, layering complexity on top of complexity. As a result, your IT infrastructure can become too complex for administrators, developers, and end users to manage effectively. Eventually, adding and removing applications grows increasingly time-consuming with direct impact on operational costs. Asking staff to do too much with too little can increase turnover in cloud operations. And when the simplicity, speed, and cost savings expected from cloud fall off, leadership has reason to question its value. These issues signal the beginning of a cloud complexity problem that organizations need to address—and fast.
A recent survey of medium-to-large companies found almost half of companies say that cloud is more complex than they expected.
Source: Deloitte Data Modernization and Cloud Complexity Survey, 2019