High availability and disaster recovery: What lies ahead for IT in 2022
In 2021, IT teams had to cope with enormous changes and protect their critical operations against unprecedented threats from Covid, natural disasters, supply chain disruptions and staff shortages. Many moved mission-critical systems to the cloud and hybrid cloud and implemented advanced, application-specific high-availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions. The impact of global change and looming threats continues. What do these changes mean for IT in the coming year? Here are some predictions to consider. Multi-cloud infrastructures will become mainstream With the widespread adoption of cloud computing as a core component of today's IT infrastructures, organizations will no longer consider a single cloud for their cloud needs. Despite the added complexity of running different workloads on different clouds, a multi-cloud model will allow enterprises to select cloud offerings that are best suited for their unique application environments, availability requirements and business needs. However, enterprises should note that cloud SLAs [...]