
The more openness they have in terms of where they run applications, the more freedom they have to optimize their budget. By facilitating interoperability with existing infrastructure, it enables enterprises to deploy and infinitely scale applications anywhere they need. This flexibility is provided by the customizable distributed cloud. And so they need a cloud with architectural latitude to match their needs as well as their budget. Their computing strategy may be simultaneously on-premises, bare metal and hybrid across multiple continents. Therefore, the next step for many businesses is to manage cloud computing costs while supporting legacy and cloud-native applications as well as cloud migration. But as more and more businesses employ a cloud-first approach using cloud-native architectures and technologies, “IT budget” has become synonymous with “cloud budget.” And this is often a very expensive proposition. It’s been the enabler for much of the recent progress with modern applications-such as those dedicated to IoT, smart cities and personal health, for example-and will continue to be the infrastructure on which enterprises and small businesses develop new innovations. Modern application development lives and breathes cloud computing. How the Cloud is Transforming Enterprise and SMBs It runs workloads in any environment: Commercial data center, on-premises facility, edge microcenter or even in a multi-facility hybrid environment.

It is agnostic to the stack’s underlying physics and doesn’t require any installation or capex. However, instead of running in a dedicated location, it runs on existing infrastructure on top of any IaaS, virtualized environment or bare-metal machines. How does this work? Through APIs, the distributed cloud connects to any IT stack in any location and provides cloud functionality as if running on a hyperscale cloud.

As a result, to realize the cloud’s fullest potential, many enterprises are turning to a recent innovation in cloud computing: Distributed clouds that are untethered to specific locations or regions.
