Public sector primed for multicloud – Dell

The UK public sector is well positioned to take advantage of a multicloud strategy, according to Dell Technologies.

Speaking at a roundtable event last week, Dell’s UK CTO Elliot Young said the vendor expects to see “a lot more public sectors going to the multicloud approach.”

“If you look at public sector, they already have a fixed number of customers, and they certainly have a long tail of IT that they have to work out what’s going to be the most efficient approach. So it’s quite reasonable to say in public sector, they’re not suddenly going to lift up absolutely everything and throw it into a public cloud in the next 12 months,” said Young.

Recent research suggests that the public sector leads in multicloud adoption worldwide.

However, Young also pointed to Dell’s infrastructure-as-a-service offering, Apex, as an alternative to the cloud.

“Apex allows organisations to get the benefits that they really want to get from public clouds, but do it in such a way that they don’t have to do a full migration,” he said.

“Sometimes for organisations like public sector, they want a stepping stone to the multicloud solution. Apex is great for that because you can pick up those workloads and move them on to infrastructure that you only pay for what you use, someone else is running and operating it for you. So you’re already getting from day one benefits that you might get from a public cloud.

“You’ve got this approach where you don’t have the complexity of moving to public cloud. So this is like another tool in the toolbox in the in the multicloud story. You’ve got some on prem, you’ve got some on Apex, you’ve got some in the public cloud, some in a partner. It’s getting back to this idea of how do you balance that approach and where should your priorities be?

Last September, HPE slammed the government’s Cloud-First Policy as “inappropriate” for the public sector.