If your company isn't already suffering from cloud chaos, it is always imminent and ready to bring your company down. Supercloud architecture may be the solution you are looking for.
Google - 41% of technology and business leaders plan to increase their investment in cloud-based services due to the current economic climate. Techopedia claims that spending on public cloud services worldwide will likely grow by 21.7% before 2024 arrives. Finally, Gartner states that public cloud service has increased from $491 billion in 2022 to $597 billion in 2023.
These numbers don't lie. Cloud adoption is growing exponentially and will continue. But it's not just the consumption of public clouds that is increasing. Companies are increasingly using the cloud, working with private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud configurations.
This dramatic increase has led to a new possibility, dubbed the Supercloud. This term may be new to some, but to others, it's a new approach to distributed cloud infrastructure and it's poised to take the world by storm.
But what is this chaos of clouds we are referring to?
Cloud Chaos is coming for you
What is chaos in the clouds? Simply put, it's when companies struggle under the weight of increasingly undefined cloud architecture as they try to work with public and private clouds, as well as mixing edge computing.
Remember when your company adopted its first cloud technology? It was simple. You were probably using it for file storage and sharing. And then your DevOps team realized how they could harness the power of the cloud to better deploy applications and services at scale.
The next thing you know, your company is using private, public, and hybrid clouds. At first it may have been quite simple to manage, but the more you delve into it, the more complicated it becomes. By now you must have discovered that dealing with the various cloud services (while tying them together with patchwork APIs) has become an almost impossible task. You put more and more engineers on this, hoping to ease the burden of administration, but the situation only gets worse.
This is chaos in the cloud, and without taking steps to prevent the problem, it is inevitable.
That's where Supercloud comes in.
Supercloud is here to alleviate cloud chaos
The term “Supercloud” was originally coined by a group of Cornell Students in 2016. The definition of the term was a cloud architecture that allows the migration of applications as a service across different availability zones or providers.
Supercloud has caught the attention of companies around the world as the logical evolution of multi-cloud technology. As of now, there is no official definition of Supercloud (other than the one Cornell students created), and while some may see Supercloud as little more than a buzzword waiting for explanation, it is actually more than that.
Consider Supercloud as a collection of technologies that uses multicloud but completely abstracts end users from the specifics of cloud providers. The idea is simple: you deploy all your applications and services to the Supercloud, which would then be responsible for distributing them to your various clouds (such as Google Cloud, AWS and Azure).
This would eliminate the need to bundle APIs or manage/maintain multiple cloud services individually. And because Supercloud is capable of spanning multiple providers as well as public and private clouds, it could radically simplify the management of your applications and services at scale.
Imagine the ability to easily migrate virtual machines, containers, and cloud-based services from any provider to any other, and do so across the globe. Not only is this incredibly efficient, it also offers a considerable increase in reliability as well as the ability to serve customers and clients more easily regardless of their location.
From many to one
Think of it this way. If you currently rely on multiple clouds to serve multiple regions, customers, and/or services, you will likely have to deal with different cloud dashboards, complicated migration processes, complex code refactoring, and numerous teams of developers or third-party entities.
Supercloud promises to drastically reduce all of this. Instead, you can have just a single management pane that abstracts the more complex nature of multicloud configurations so that administration, migration, and deployment tasks can be performed with a single UI.
This alone makes the idea of Supercloud exceptionally attractive.
Even better, Supercloud integrates IaaS, PaaS and SaaS into one solution, meaning managing and deploying your services is even easier. Additionally, you can save money by not having to hire engineers specializing in these three platforms. Instead, you would only need developers and engineers who can focus on the work they were hired to do, and they wouldn't have to be jacks of all trades in everything cloud-related.
Increase your focus with Supercloud
Another benefit of Supercloud is that you can optimize it to meet a specific need without having to repeat efforts across multiple cloud instances. For example, the application or service you are about to deploy may be demanding on latency, bandwidth, data retrieval, query speed, economics, or high compute needs. With Supercloud, you can optimize for specific deployment needs without having to manage the same optimization across multiple cloud instances.
It's so efficient.
To increase the benefits of Supercloud, you can future-proof your business without hiring extra staff or creating custom software to integrate everything. Supercloud provides all the necessary tools and resources.
Avoid vendor lock-in
Another big advantage of Supercloud is that it will help your company avoid vendor lock-in. At the moment, you may feel like you can't easily migrate from one provider to another. Using multiple cloud providers seamlessly is little more than a pipe dream for some companies.
The very nature of Supercloud prevents vendor lock-in, making it easy to constantly switch between cloud providers without the need to create custom APIs or interfaces to make it work (and then retool them when a company breaks the connection).
The supercloud warning
This is where things get a little complicated. While the need for Supercloud may not be greater at the moment, it is still primarily a concept. No company has launched a Supercloud solution. While the idea behind Supercloud may not exactly be in its infancy, nothing has come to fruition. You can't contact a company and sign up for the Supercloud solution because it doesn't exist yet.
However, it would be no surprise if multiple Supercloud solutions become available in 2024. Supercloud is a much-needed technology, and when it arrives, it will change the way businesses leverage the cloud.
