Digital Infrastructure Tips

Prefixing everything with the word “digital” seems to make the concept sexier these days. The relatively new term “digital infrastructure” pops up recently in sales pitches from traditionally on-premise infrastructure service vendors. This article is an attempt to explain some of the more prominent elements of the indeed valuable concept of digital infrastructure.

Digital Infrastructure utilizes multiple modern technologies and techniques (such as multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, IAC/SDI, and containerization) in provisioning the computation, storage, networking, and security needs of applications and systems alike achieving costs efficiency, risks management, and devops agility.

As per my description above, the benefits of digital infrastructure together with some of the key techniques associated are:

1. Costs Efficiency: For example, being able to run multi-cloud allows for selection of more economical cloud vendors. Cost effectiveness benefits from hybrid-cloud depends on scale. Roughly speaking, if the physical infrastructure scale is too small, then the lower TCO of running application workload on-premise might not apply because of the overhead of requiring system administrator/engineers to take care of the hardware. (Hint: For any serious operation, at least 3 system administrator/engineers will be required on rotation and as backup to support the operation). But if the scale of the infrastructure is sizeable with known, sustained and fixed workload, then on-premise infrastructure will be more cost-effective…