{"id":31360,"date":"2023-05-16T09:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=31360"},"modified":"2024-05-16T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:58","slug":"what-is-supercloud-what-to-consider-when-monitoring-and-observing-the-a-supercloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-supercloud-what-to-consider-when-monitoring-and-observing-the-a-supercloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Supercloud? What to consider when monitoring and observing a Supercloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span>What is Supercloud?<\/span><\/h2>\n

In recent months the term \u201cSupercloud\u201d has become increasingly used, particularly in the context of being a successor or qualifier to \u201cmulti-cloud\u201d. There isn\u2019t any definitive formal definition, it is essentially yet another buzzword and vendors and analysts are pilling in with their own take and definition to align to their own agendas and product capabilities. In this slightly wild west grab for audience though usage of the term is converging towards some key concepts and some open-source community and government initiatives (particularly in Asia) are underway that are likely to lead to practical adoption on new workflows and computing architectures falling under this umbrella term of \u201cSupercloud\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/span>What is hybrid cloud and what is multi-cloud?<\/span><\/h2>\n

To understand Supercloud you first have to understand hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, their implementation, limitations and what is implemented in practice. Cloud is often coined as running your application \u201con someone else\u2019s computer\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Hybrid cloud \u2013 An overview<\/span><\/h2>\n

Hybrid cloud<\/a> is how many enterprises first start with cloud. Traditionally, organizations bought and ran their own infrastructure on-premises, they bought servers installed operating systems and applications on those servers and were responsible for updating and maintaining everything – both software and hardware.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hybrid cloud is the practice of running some (but only _some_ \u2013 not all) of what could be on-premises on someone else\u2019s computers usually in cloud, and usually a big public cloud such as AWS (Amazon Web Services), whilst retaining some of your workloads on-prem. In practice this could mean rather than buying a new Dell Server and installing Microsoft SQL Server to run databases that an organization rents virtual servers as VMs from Azure and installs \/ maintains SQL server as they do on-prem (IaaS), or it could mean they use an Azure Managed SQL (PaaS) instance<\/a> where Microsoft are also responsible for maintaining the SQL software.<\/p>\n

Whereas Cloud is often coined as running \u201cyour applications on someone else\u2019s computer\u201d, hybrid cloud is about running \u201conly some of your<\/strong> applications on somebody else\u2019s computer\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Multi-cloud \u2013 An overview<\/span><\/h2>\n

Multi-cloud<\/a> is when an organization uses 2 or more different public cloud providers.<\/p>\n

A number of very different scenarios come up with multi-cloud that help clarify what it actually means, consider:<\/p>\n

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