Rethinking infrastructure

The next facet of digital transformation is infrastructure modernization. Building a hybrid cloud infrastructure involves integrating on-premises and cloud resources to create a flexible and scalable IT environment. Enterprises will have to rethink infrastructure to achieve greater automation, consistency, and scalability, which are essential for managing dynamic IT environments effectively. One of the strategies enterprises can adopt is treating infrastructure resources as cattle instead of pets. This approach aligns with the principles of DevOps and is well suited for cloud-native and containerized applications, where the application’s dependency on the underlying infrastructure is negligible. However, this is a paradigm shift in how enterprise IT traditionally views infrastructure, where infrastructure is irreplaceable and individually managed. We will classify infrastructure components as compute infrastructure, network infrastructure, and storage...