IT pros abandon single cloud computing using multiple cloud services

The company of the cloud management service provider, Rightscale, said last week that 87% of the company's cloud uses more than one cloud service provider and more than one cloud type.

According to the company's actual application, the most common uses for running multiple clouds include providing multiple cloud high-availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery. At the same time, in addition to the public cloud, Rightscale customers also deploy on-premises hosting and private or hybrid clouds.

Rightscale customers use the company's services to support MyCloud Amazon's network services, DataPipe, IDC and other cutting-edge, logicworks,rackspace and SoftLayer. In addition, the company says Rightscale's collaboration with private cloud software offers Shangshijie cloudstack, Eucalyptus Systems and OpenStack open source cloud computing projects.

One analyst says this does not necessarily mean anything rightscale to see what is happening is an obvious trend. After all, Multi-cloud management is the strength of rightscale and the numbers that they are independent of can not be confirmed. "If you plan to use Rightscale, you may want to manage a cloudy strategy," said Gartner, a major research analyst, Hilgendorfker, a

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Analysts at two large analytics companies say their company does not track the use of multiple clouds. But some companies use this approach.

Deploying multiple clouds is a good idea depending on yourself.

"I know a big health care provider with nine cloud providers," said Tom Cimi, the group president of Cloud Consulting Inc. "But as they are testing, they will eventually coordinate with two of the most likely providers of cooperation ... Most customers with multiple clouds say they will pick a supplier. "

" We tell customers you don't want to have multiple vendors unless you can't do any other way ",

Nevertheless, in some cases, there are still cloud customers who want or need to use different cloud service providers, such as theme stickers, Explains Rightscale CEO and co-founder Michael Crandell

In fact, over the years, some companies have thought of using multiple clouds as a way to block vendor lock-in and provide additional backup and recovery alternatives for using multiple clouds.

The concept of an evolving cloudy strategy refers to the ability to look for the lowest commodity from multiple cloud supplier costs, "the founder and chief technology officer of Data Management Web services soNian, Greg Arnette, said in his February personal blog. "But with a lot of positive breakthroughs, multiple clouds can run successfully under a single Reference Architecture software," Arnette

takes the Deltacloud project as an example, and the application programming interface supports a variety of clouds (APIs). Currently， In version 0.5, the Apache Software Foundation's Top project (TLP), Deltacloud, supports a large list of cloud APIs, including Vmwarevsphere, eucalyptus, Red Hat rhev-m, Microsoft Windowsazure,rackspace, Terremark and Amazon Elastic cloud computing (E C2).

However, while seemingly counterintuitive, demand has warmed up at least in the short term. Rightscale Company has seen its customers from the end of 2011 to 84% to today's 87%%,crandell said.

"You have a choice whether people end up using a supplier or two or three," he added. They are not looking for a revolution ... They just want to do their job well.
 

(editor: Heritage)