Multicloud and hybrid cloud are now a reality for a significant part of organisations. But this approach brings not only opportunities, but also challenges. Warpcom was one of the companies invited to discuss the new life in the cloud at the IT Insight roundtable.
Read the article summarising this event: https://warpcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/01-Jan-2022-IT-Insight-A-Nova-Vida-Das-Clouds-Website.pdf
We highlight here the interventions of Pedro Fernandes, Consulting Services Solutions Architect of Data Center & Multicloud at Warpcom:
“What we have seen in the last two, three years is the movement of organisations and enterprises towards workloads powered by hybrid cloud. There are various models, but either way, the strength of these solutions is the issue of agility and resilience that they bring. Being an extension of the client’s data centre, what happens is that it is not yet the implemented model; that is, there is an evolution, but it is not yet the model”.
“The responsibility in the cloud will always be shared. On the one hand, there is the responsibility of the provider to keep physical access restricted, it has to have connectivity ensured, without security flaws, optimised and with up-to-date patches. On the other hand, there are good practices that are often not applied in on-premises data centres, but which should be looked at in the same way by the customer. Security is not only about attacks, but also about day-to-day patching and zero days that will always exist.”
“Edge computing and this industrial transformation we’ve been seeing is key. Cloud providers are coming to edge computing in various ways; one of them is extending the zones closer to IoT devices and sensors. On the other hand, we also have the ability to import cloud technologies into our on-premises data centre. The other side – the IoT and artificial intelligence – if in the past you were still using LoRa networks in the industry, that data and those metrics that are pulled out often need to be computed directly on-premises or on edge computing because they are critical to do an analysis and help in decision making.”
“When we migrate to the cloud, we have to look at cybersecurity the same way we look at security when we have our data centre.”