Infrastructure Options—Making the Right Choices in Today’s Digital World
A modern enterprise’s digital operations infrastructure is composed of a diverse collection of unique workloads that are deployed on a wide array of platforms.
Enterprises have a wealth of options of where to run these workloads, and making the right, or wrong, decision can have an impact on the operational efficiency of the organization.
What Workloads Do I Have?
Many workloads powering enterprises today are offered as software as a service (SaaS) where the technology provider assumes responsibility for running the application.
That leaves the remaining workloads that make up an enterprise’s digital operations infrastructure available to decide where to run.
Each of these remaining workloads need to be assessed to understand how best to optimize where to run them.
Enterprises need to consider each workload, taking into account any special requirements for resources.
Tabulate the computer, memory, i/o requirements, database requirements, big data processing, artificial intelligence, and any other needs specific for each workload.
This information can then be used to decide where to best run each workload.
Where to Run—Lots of Infrastructure Choices
Organizations have a multitude of choices for where to run their workloads.
For the public cloud, enterprises can choose any of the big five providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Oracle) or select from a wealth of alternative providers in the public cloud space that are providing quality services for many organizations worldwide.
For some workloads, the best option may be to deploy into a private cloud, or maybe even deploying in an edge datacenter or on-premise within a corporate datacenter or manufacturing facility.
There aren’t any one-size fits all solutions and assessing each unique workload requirement and matching it to the strengths of a particular deployment option is key.
With the proliferation of containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, any combination of public, private, colo, edge, and on-prem should be considered.
Bottom Line
Modern enterprises have lots of infrastructure choices on where to run its unique workloads, and making the right, or wrong, decision can have a measurable impact on the efficiency of its digital operations.
Understanding the footprint of each workload and mapping them to the capabilities and costs of the various deployment options enables an organization to optimize their overall digital operations infrastructure.
This blog is a part of the Digital Operations blog series by Aragon Research’s Sr. Director of Research, Craig Kennedy.
Missed an installment? Catch up here!
Blog 1: Introducing the Digital Operations Blog Series
Blog 2: Digital Operations: Keeping Your Infrastructure Secure
Blog 3: Digital Operations: Cloud Computing
Blog 4: Cybersecurity Attacks Have Been Silently Escalating
Blog 5: Automation—The Key to Success in Today’s Digital World
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