As businesses try to optimize their costs during economic downturns, ramping up cloud spend can be a pain point. Efforts to alleviate this – from, say, moving workloads to a cost-effective environment/on-prem or re-architecting to save costs – become difficult, as organizations often find themselves strapped for technical agility.
With modern businesses carrying so much data, some legacy or homegrown applications not allowing for transfer and cloud lock-in all to contend with, it can quickly feel like trying to fit a thousand square pegs through a thousand round holes – all against the backdrop of accelerating cyberthreats like ransomware. Because of this, the right balance between cost and security needs to be found for every workload.
