By Edgar Haren
Organizations continue to experience challenges migrating complex, highly integrated workloads like enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the public cloud.
Complexity in migrations can lead to performance setbacks, control gaps and increased costs.
In particular, the complexity of edge computing and custom applications has prompted some businesses to repatriate workloads back to on-premises environments. Indeed, complexity was discussed in the Kyndryl Readiness Report as the number one challenge to technology modernization.
We recently worked with a large financial services provider in the U.K. that needed better visibility into its IT estate, compliance with data privacy regulations and lower operational costs. The company wanted to move most workloads to Microsoft Azure, while keeping some in another public cloud and on premises.
It was a complex scenario, for which we deployed an adaptive cloud. The company now has better visibility through a single control plane, more accurate chargebacks to internal business units and stakeholders, better regulatory transparency, reduced costs, and enhanced control over on-premises environments.
The adaptive cloud approach — which Kyndryl and Microsoft are partnering in — may not suit every company staring down decisions about what and how to migrate. Organizations rightfully will hesitate to significantly overhaul their operating models. But it’s now a viable option to cut through the prioritization paralysis that often lives just downstream from IT complexity.
