Most enterprises don’t run on a single technology stack. A typical enterprise will often run on mainframes, client-servers, as well as web and mobile platforms — all powered by diverse sets of technologies. Cloud is no exception, so in a typical topology, where each branch or department runs its own private cloud, managing consistent virtual-machine templates becomes complex. Businesses find that emulating their network topologies and configurations on the public cloud is difficult. That is a primary reason why, despite embracing virtualization a few years ago, IT has not widely adopted public cloud.
Cloud mobility is an emerging trend aimed at making workload migration across cloud platforms seamless. It also makes managing distributed private-cloud deployments efficient and cost-effective.
Cloud-mobility platforms increase the ease with which businesses can move workloads between on-premises and public-cloud environments.
Cloud mobility increases overall efficiency by allowing centralized resource management and reducing the “shadow IT” and “cloud sprawl” that plague many enterprises.
Dev/test, disaster recovery, and hybrid-cloud environments are ideal use cases for cloud-mobility solutions.