The only way forward: why businesses should adopt multi-cloud.

Multi-cloud provides businesses with the control of private cloud and the business agility of public platforms.

It’s no secret that the hybrid cloud has become one of the hottest topics of discussion in the technology industry, and deservedly so. Using a mix of platforms gives businesses an additional level of flexibility when it comes to enabling future growth and meeting customer needs.

According to analyst firm 451 Research, they estimate that 69% of enterprises will be running hybrid IT environments by 2019, while Gartner predicts that 90% of organisations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management capabilities by 2020.

Hybrid is clearly here to stay, but it is not the only cloud trend garnering the attention of CIOs and CTOs from all over the world. In recent months, it has been overtaken by its close relative ‘multi-cloud’ as the preferred way forward, with 79% of businesses already admitting to working with more than one cloud provider. As such, it is widely considered to be the future of cloud computing. This opens up a wave of new opportunities for creative innovation, such as enabling organisations to ‘fail fast’ and rapidly roll out new services to customers.

By Mark Barker.

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