Hybrid-or-Multi-Cloud
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Top Factors to Consider While Making The Right Choice in Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud

Cloud computing is increasingly becoming popular in all sorts of companies either enterprises or NPOs, either SMBs established business or new startup companies. Everyone understands how important it is and making a digital transformation strategy on the basis of these two have turned out as the most influential decisions of the businesses ever.

But which cloud option one must opt for a business? Should they go for multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud would prove the best? People find it much confusing while picking one out of these two!

Well, preferring one option is highly depends on your requirements. Let’s discuss what should you choose as per your business needs:

For novices, here’s the brief intro about Hybrid-cloud and Multi-cloud options:

Hybrid-cloud

In this cloud environment, more than one deployment ways are chosen. In simple words, it subsumes both, private as well as public clouds, delivered by the same provider in the same ecosystem.

Multi-cloud

Multi-cloud means that scenario of business in which multi-cloud solutions are taken from different vendors under the same deployment model. It means using public cloud services from several vendors.

How to Make a Right Choice in Multi-Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud Options?

It goes without saying that both the options have their own privileges and importance. Enterprises usually find themselves in perplex while resorting to one among these two. So, here for your ease, we are putting you forward towards certain factors that you should consider while making a choice between the two.

Go through these:

  • Flexible Approach

The amount of flexibility varies from organization to organization. By resorting to the Multi-cloud option, the scope of flexibility hikes up comparing hybrid option.

Each service provider will offer you enhanced cloud services to meet your specific workloads and requirements, under multi-cloud computing. So, you can bring innovations to your works by having more scope.

However, Hybrid-cloud is the approach of one-size-fits-all. All requirements of the entire business might not be implemented under this. Its scope is limited to specific criteria.

  • Security and Privacy

Unsecured clouding has become a major reason that organizations have halted its use. So, before finally picking the one, it’s necessary to go through the privacy options.

For security reasons, hybrid cloud computing is better than multi-cloud where the security is always a complicated issue. But this doesn’t mean, hybrid computing gives you a clean chit.

To mitigate potential security menaces, it’s necessary to look after vulnerabilities, leakages and analyze all the options for data storage for better security and privacy of data.

  • Vendor Lock-in

Vendor lock-in might become a major risk for any organization and if you feel your enterprise will also be its risk, then it’s better to go with the multi-cloud option. It doesn’t mean that a hybrid cloud option will not serve this purpose, but the quickness of multi-cloud computing in migrating away from the provider that is the reason for the troubles you are confronted with.

  • Intricate

In terms of complexity and complicated processing, the multi-cloud option might not be the right one. However, if you want to adopt multi-clouding, then surely your IT team must have adeptness to tackle the nuances created by cloud providers and should possess the capability to adopt it in the best possible way.

As in the hybrid-cloud, the public providers are less so managing them is not a much difficult task.

Takeaway

It’s difficult to say which one you should opt for, as both have their own pros & cons. The decision would considerably be dependent upon your organization and its varied needs. Still, Binary Semantics is here to guide you in this regard and offer you the best clouding services contrasting to any other provider.

Digital Transformation
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How Digital Transformation can help in providing world class operations and deliveries

Do you remember the time when you had to stand for hours in the long queue in front of the bank cashier, just to withdraw cash from your account? Remember the time it took to purchase a demand draft or transfer funds from one account to another. As the financial year draws to a close, there used to be a frantic rush to the Income Tax Office to submit your IT returns in time.

Today, everything has changed. You withdraw your cash within no time. You can transfer funds from one account to another through the internet/mobile before you can even spell the word ‘beneficiary’. Submitting your Income Tax returns online has become so easy today. Yes, this is what we call ‘Digital Transformation’ in its simplest incarnation.

Digital Transformation – The change, we all wish to see

This is the ‘Digital Transformation’ you and I experience in our daily lives. So, how do you define Digital Transformation? In very simple words, Digital Transformation is nothing but the integration of digital technology into every area of business, thereby fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver value to your customers. This is in fact, a cultural change, a total transformation that organizations should adopt to move from the status quo position and enter the realm of experimentation and explore opportunities that no one had ever dared to do so before.

Digital Transformation – World Class Operations and Deliveries

How do you become successful in business? The answer is very simple, ‘Satisfy your customer’. This maxim was true 100 years ago, it is effective today as well, and will define success in business for hundreds of years to come. Digital transformation is one step towards providing great value to your customers. This is the principal discussion topic in the CXO Conference & Panel Discussion on “Digital Transformation for Enabling World Class Sustainable Organization” organized by Vaco Binary Semantics LLP on 19 April 2018 at the Novotel Convention Centre, Hyderabad.

The world has become truly digital today with processes like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, cloud, and Robotic Process Automation becoming commonplace in all industrial sectors in the world. Digital Transformation is about bringing a seamless integration of each of these processes thereby enabling organizations raise the bar and set a new benchmark as far as customer satisfaction is concerned.

One of the greatest examples where you can find an integrated model comprising all the processes mentioned above is that of Amazon Go. This concept is a perfect amalgamation of an online as well as an offline store. You walk into the store and use the Amazon Go app. Choose the products you want to buy and pick them up from the shelf. You can straightaway walk out of the store without having to literally check out.

AI comes to the fore as the technology tracks the products and sends you a receipt for the same after charging your Amazon account. The customer has a lot of advantages.

a) He need not stand in a queue and wait for his turn at the counter.
b) There is no need for him/her to swipe the credit card thereby exposing himself to financial security risks.
c) He need not wait for the product to be dispatched as he can start using the products straightaway.

If this is not the ultimate in customer satisfaction, then what is? This is just one of the simplest examples of what digital transformation can do in providing world class services and deliveries. There are many more. You are welcome to join the Panel Discussion on this subject at the venue on April 19.

Blockchain Technology and Digital Transformation
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Blockchain Technology and Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is the need of the hour. Every business recognizes this aspect. The CXO Conference and Panel Discussion hosted by Vaco Binary Semantics LLP held on April 19, 2018 concentrates on these aspects. This is a part of the agenda of the discussion on ‘Digital Transformation for Enabling World Class Sustainable Organization’. Let us now see the importance of digital transformation and blockchain technology in particular.
In this era of data theft and manipulation, thanks to the Cambridge Analytica Fiasco, security of data has become the hot topic of discussion. It is under these circumstances that Blockchain technology is making its presence felt. The greatest advantage of Blockchain technology is that it is entirely decentralized. When we say decentralized, we mean that the network operates on a peer-to-peer basis. Hence, you see the disappearance of the middleman from the scene.

What exactly is Blockchain?

In very simple terms, blockchain is an encrypted digital ledger where you have the recording of transactions chronologically and publicly. Since it is a peer-to-peer network, making changes or alterations to the data in any given block is impossible without changing all the subsequent blocks. This example will sort out things in proper perspective.

  • Someone requests for a transaction (It can be anything like financial, contracts, records, any information)
  • This request is relayed to a P2P network that consists of a number of computers known as nodes.
  • The next step is the validation of the transaction by the network of nodes using a set of algorithms.
  • Once the transaction is verified, it is combined with other similar transactions in a new block. This block is then added to the existing blocks in such a way that it becomes unalterable.
  • This completes the transaction.

 

Uses of Blockchain Technology:

The financial sector has great use for this technology. The land register records are another area where the blockchain technology has a great scope. This technology is very useful for people to search for the old records and establish the chain of ownership of land. This is how you find the encumbrance certificates of land. Every transaction is recorded publicly. You will not be able to modify any existing transaction but only add to it. In case of the property changes hands, you will be able to establish whether there is any charge on the property. If there is one, subsequent transactions relating to the property are invalid until the charge is extinguished by the parties creating the charge.

People consider blockchain technology as having uses in controlling cryptocurrency transactions alone. It is true that this technology was developed for this purpose alone. But, since then, it has moved on to encompass other spheres as well. We have just seen the simple example of ownership of assets like property. You can extend it to shares, copyrights, etc.

The greatest advantage of blockchain technology is that the blockchain database is not stored at a single location. The data is virtually available to the public and is verifiable. As there is no centralization of data, hacking the information is next to impossible. Even if you tried to hack, you have to create a block. This block has to be verified by the network of nodes before being added to the chain. Now, this would involve a lot of people. In the extreme eventuality of the block being added, it will remain perfectly visible in the public domain. Thus, you can infer that blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger that can store anything of value.

This is going to be the topic of discussion at the CXO Conference & Panel Discussion. You will be able to understand the advantages of blockchain technology in various sectors like ownership of assets, streamlining the shipping process, the healthcare industry, registering and protecting copyrights, etc. You will thus see that there is scope for blockchain beyond the cryptocurrency transactions.

In the first part of the discussion, the topics on display are the use of new age technologies like AI, machine learning, Cloud storage, mobility, IoT, and robotics, etc. All these technologies are going to define the future of the internet. You are welcome to share your views.