Cloud‑native is the way forward for increased business agility and speed to market. Cloud‑native applications are essentially built to run in the cloud and are optimized to take full advantage of all the benefits cloud brings, including elastic scalability, high availability and self‑healing.
Legacy applications can be rewritten using cloud‑native technologies.
Research defines cloud‑native software as “applications designed from the ground up to take advantage of cloud computing architectures and automated environments, and to leverage API‑driven provisioning, auto‑scaling, and other operational functions.”
From an economic point of view, cloud‑native technologies enable the true value of cloud by scaling and developing applications in much shorter timelines than has been possible previously. Cloud‑native works well with multicloud environments as the approach can take advantage of operational functions to deploy efficiently and productively across multiple infrastructures.
CLOUD‑NATIVE IS HELPING BUILD A SUSTAINABLE CLOUD ECOSYSTEM
By 2022, the modernization of traditional applications and the development of new applications will accelerate the percentage of cloud‑native production applications to 25%, driven by the utilization of microservices, containers, and dynamic orchestration, according to an IDC forecast.
Cloud‑native has distinct advantages over traditional software development, including faster code development and coding, quicker turnaround of services, and serverless computing, all of which simplifies the process of deploying code into the production cycle. Cloud‑native also has the innate ability to cost tag, making it easier to manage budgets. But, cloud‑native requires commitment and cultural change – and it doesn’t happen overnight.
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The cloud plays a crucial role in the business of the future. The effects of Covid-19 have accelerated our transition to a hyper-connected world driven by the cloud, where collaboration and security support a contactless economy. Multicloud is central to this hyper-connected world through its ability to connect people and digital tools.
The growing impact on long-term profitability and sustainability is important in a multicloud strategy and increasingly important for companies that strive for increased efficiency, flexibility, cost control and access to new technology.
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