FEATURE
Supporting on-prem and cloud-
native apps
When planning better support for
enterprise applications in the public cloud,
make sure that the data services you select
not only meet the feature requirements of
your operations, but that the performance
of those services can scale appropriately to
the needs of your apps.
Assaad El Saadi, Regional Director,
Middle East, Pure Storage
Many have shied away from moving
critical client workloads offsite, choosing
instead to maintain them in their own data
centres. And travelling workloads are also
beset by licensing restrictions that shrink
the number of options for IT organisations.
And so, the relatively short history of
hybrid cloud has furnished us with several
cautionary tales.
If these uncomfortable anecdotes were to
be compiled into a single volume, its title
would read: ‘Plan Ahead’.
Jumping the gun in IT projects has never
yielded a happy ending and yet we
still do it. But those who ask the right
questions as they design their hybrid IT
infrastructures are more likely to recount
a happily-ever-after story than those that
jump in with both feet.
When you are careful to select services
that are compatible with your data
centre storage, you are taking the step of
ensuring that APIs and management are
consistent across all your environments.
Now your architecture looks more like a
hybrid infrastructure is supposed to look
– with apps free to move more between
your data centres and the cloud. They can
even span environments, delivering that
all-important agility that you seek.
If your big win is to prepare your data
centres for the support of cloud-native
apps, then you will need to add container
support and object storage capabilities.
This code portability allows cloud-native
applications to run on your premises. In
addition, associated automation tools
and self-service facilities can lead to an
appreciable surge in your organisation’s
agility and allow you to deliver on cloud-
native application development.
The bottom line is that modern IT
environments should facilitate data
strategies based on flexible consumption
models, across on-premises, hosted and
What are your targets?
Identify your goals, zero in on your biggest
pain points and plan your attack. Maybe you
want to find better ways to run traditional
applications in a public-cloud setting.
You might want to explore ways to unlock
the limitless computing power inherent in
cloud-native applications and cloud-native
development in your data centres.
Or perhaps you just crave the
cybersafety of the public cloud for the
protection of your data and the options
for business continuity.
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Issue 06
IN THE MIDDLE
EAST, THERE HAS
BEEN A GROWING
MOVEMENT
TOWARDS THE
ADOPTION
OF HYBRID IT
ENVIRONMENTS.
public cloud – aligning application workloads
with the most effective infrastructure.
Most importantly, the modern IT
environment should work harmoniously
with a common management interface,
100% non-disruptive architecture and
proactive/predictive support services.
Securing the digital estate
Meanwhile, the digital threat landscape
has become a bugbear for us all.
In recent years – especially in the Arab
Gulf region, amid a surge in cloud
migration – the cybersecurity worry-lines
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