There has never been a time in business computing history when companies like yours have been more dependent upon the cloud. But what cloud? What kind of cloud?
Those questions matter.
Gartner’s October 28, 2020 report entitled, “Choose the Best Cloud Operations Delivery Model for Your Organization’s Needs,” highlighted an existing problem among cloud-dependent companies.
“Through 2023, 80% of large enterprise organizations that attempt to scale up cloud operations using traditional I&O (Infrastructure & Operations) silos will fail to meet customer expectations of cloud agility.”
What is at Stake for AEC Organizations?
Gartner points to four “negative impacts” that can result from cloud operations using traditional I&O.
· Slow addition of capabilities
· Challenge of managing costs
· Lower reliability
· Lesser stability
What Course Does the Gartner Report in Addressing This Potential Business Growth Harm?
As you dig into Gartner’s report, two main concepts become clear for the business owner.
1. Cloud operations must evolve on-pace with your organization
2. Speedy cloud implementation must be balanced with its ability to scale with your company.
Let’s take each of these concepts and break them down.
Your Cloud Operations Must Evolve On-pace With Your Organization
One of the irreversible changes that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the business world is a new enthusiasm for cloud-based workflow. Although MSPs and Cloud providers had been proclaiming the cloud’s business continuity benefits for years, many had not seen it in action until they had to send their workforce to work from home.
Some had to scramble and make use of less-than-ideal cloud solutions – just to survive the past year.
Others had invested in private cloud infrastructure to handle GPU-heavy workloads and facilitate remote work situations with ease.
Although details of our data centers and cloud designs are beyond the scope of this post, it’s important to know that not all “clouds” are created equal. The IronOrbit private cloud has been built with security baked into the process, using cutting-edge models that provide optimal performance for the heaviest of AEC workloads.
You Must Balance Speedy Cloud Implementation with the Cloud’s Ability to Scale with Your Company
Lightning-fast cloud adoption was one of the business technology decisions that had to be made by many companies under duress of the pandemic.
While not all businesses wanted to – or were able to – move all their processes to a cloud environment during the first COVID wave, the forced cloud adoption required on-the-spot cloud choices that may not have been the best fit for the company’s long-term strategy.
But it’s still happening.
Businesses without high-level IT guidance or a well-defined IT roadmap are jumping into cloud-hosted applications and public cloud solutions before realizing it’s not going to work with a long- term strategy. Use a cloud design not for where your company is at today, but for where your company wants to be tomorrow.
Unfortunately, many AEC companies have made a “giant leap” into cloud environments that were not designed to support the GPU work their firms do every day. Or it’s a cloud solution that doesn’t align with the long-term strategy. As a result, those companies experience frustrations. They don’t have the control they expected, or their remote work is hobbled because their applications are too slow.
The good news is that this leap into the wrong cloud is not irreversible. AEC firms can shift gears and partner with IronOrbit. Our GPU-Accelerated INFINITY Workspaces are purpose-built for the kind of data-heavy resource-hungry apps AEC firms work with daily.
The Cloud is Here to Stay
Gartner predicts that “by 2025, 80 percent of enterprises will migrate entirely away from on-premises data centers with the current trend of moving workloads to colocation, hosting and the cloud leading them to shut down their traditional data center.”
The pandemic put their prediction on fast-forward.
Experts assert that in many areas of society the pandemic has forced us to embrace 10 years of progress (for good or bad) in just one year. The “giant leap” into the cloud by many businesses that were not considering it in January 2020, is not going to be reversed. Nobody’s going back to on-premise servers.
Now that the end of COVID is in sight, your AEC firm can turn its attention to moving to the cloud infrastructure that best supports your work-from-anywhere, graphics-heavy workflow.
Want to know more about IronOrbit’s GPU-Accelerated INFINITY Workspaces? We’d welcome the opportunity to demonstrate its tremendous capabilities.
Discover for yourself why more and more AEC firms are choosing IronOrbit.
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