In this article, multi-cloud deployment takes center stage, as a trend in supporting business processes like BI and CPM tasks. In the business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM) worlds, at times it might feel like technology has always been moving at warp speed, and other times, it feels like everything has gone into turbo mode of all of a sudden. Both are true in their own ways. Innovation in technology aims to make things faster, and developments over time then build an exponential momentum as certain breakthroughs are made. Then, scaffolding goes up a little quicker for the next evolution – and so forth. Cloud computing is precisely the type of breakthrough that continues to evolve, adding in options via developments that seem to build out naturally and quickly. One of the more recent developments for business culture is a multi-cloud deployment. This article will focus on what multi-cloud deployments are and what they do, especially for BI and CPM tasks. There is a set of jargon related to cloud deployments. As a word person, one of my personal favorites is “failover.” Techopedia describes failover as “the constant capability to automatically and seamlessly switch to a highly reliable backup. This can be operated in a redundant manner or in a standby operational mode upon the failure of a primary server, application, system or other primary system component. The main purpose of failover is to eliminate, or at least reduce, the impact on users when a system failure occurs.” To be clear, failover is not specific to cloud computing, but in this context, a multi-cloud deployment provides failover in terms of relying on a second cloud server in the case of system failures. But first, shall we define multi-cloud deployment? It means what it sounds like, so you might consider “multi-cloud deployment” self-explanatory: it is the concurrent use of two or more cloud computing systems. While hybrid cloud deployment means you’re utilizing both a public cloud and a private cloud hosting on-premises applications, multi-cloud refers to depending on more than one cloud service provider. A multi-cloud deployment delivers system support redundancy in situations where hardware and/or software experience failures, but it also helps the consumer to avoid “vendor lock-in,” which is another cloud computing specific vocabulary. The two main motivations for a multi-cloud deployment are now identified: back-up plan and sidestepping vendor lock-in. A back-up cloud provider if/when your primary cloud experiences a system failure might seem like a no-brainer, particularly when you think about how that can happen. Cloud platform problems can occur anywhere from a single cable connector failure to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), or from a natural disaster to an act of cyberwarfare, which there has been a steady rise in more recently, at least in the political sphere. You can also experience a large-scale network outage because of a single hard disk/drive unit failure if that error happens somewhere critical in the system, like a host computer. Thus, a cloud backup for your frontline cloud computing platform is important. But what about vendor lock-in? If you would like to learn more about multi-cloud deployments for BI and CPM systems, click here . About Solver Solver is the leading provider of complete BI solutions for today’s mid-market enterprise and the company has been at the forefront of BI technology for over a decade. Solver’s BI360 solution is a powerful, Microsoft-based suite of modules for reporting, budgeting, dashboards, and data warehousing with extensive, pre-built integrations to Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL. www.solverglobal.com The post Multi-cloud for BI and CPM appeared first on goERPcloud .
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