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Daniel Graves
A1: Multicloud strategies often start with risk management, and then grow to fit for purpose, determining which applications (and their captive data) get the most benefit from each cloud's capabilities.
Dan Griffith
A2: Per Gartner hype cycle, probably the Slope of Enlightenment stage. CMP’s failed to deliver on abstracting CSP’s, leading to a “Trough of Disillusionment”. Now, the rise of Kubernetes as the default appdev target platform has revitalized the “abstract all the platforms" mvmt
digitalmarks
A2: I think of multi-cloud as the intersection of strategy and technology. While adoption itself could near full saturation, I don’t believe it will ever “peak” but rather continue to evolve creating new opportunities for us to optimize our organizations.
digitalmarks
A2: The adoption of multi-cloud is mature. Competition, and the desire for more market share, have driven the evolution of cloud provider infrastructure and capabilities to the point organizations could not ignore the richness of the marketplace as it relates to their needs.
James Maguire
I agree that it's mature, but the growth rate is still huge.
James Maguire
Q2. Where is mulitcloud in its growth curve? How far are we from peak multicloud?
Marc Linster
A2 Systematic multicloud strategies are in the infancy stage - but cloud vendor independence is rapidly becoming a central CIO message. Increasingly IT departments avoid cloud-vendor specific solutions. Postgres is a leading example, as it runs in every cloud #eweekchat

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Krishnaprasath "KP" Hari
A2: According to @Flexera state of the cloud report, 93% of enterprise organizations are already pursuing a #multicloud strategy. Ongoing IT investments will focus on optimizing multi-cloud architectures and deployments to realize strategic benefits and objectives.
Krishnaprasath "KP" Hari
A2: The multicloud approach helps businesses to tap the best qualities from each of the major #cloud providers and will continue to grow in terms of consumption.
Marc Linster
@KPHariHitachi Completely agree - thats what we are hearing from CIOs
Chris Ehrlich
A2: In the beginning, as enterprises are still migrating to the cloud and single cloud vendors. We are far from a mature multicloud market.
Carolyn Duby
A2: Multicloud is early on it's growth curve. There is a lot of potential as organizations determine their own cloud strategies and start their cloud journey.

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Carolyn Duby
A2: Our customers recognize the potential of hybrid multi-cloud to increase their resilience and fuel the growth of their data capabilities.
Dan Griffith
A1: Many of our enterprise customers don’t intentionally choose multicloud. That decision is more BU &/or use case driven, with TTM, TCO, & vendor decisions playing a large role. In those cases, the IT org has to integrate those initiatives
James Maguire
Sounds like IT might be burdened!
Dan Griffith
If you asked them, their answer would be highly predictable @JamesMaguire
digitalmarks
A1: The inherent advantage of multi-cloud is aligning your organization's needs with cloud provider strengths, optimizing for what’s most important to you.
Krishnaprasath "KP" Hari
A1:... avoiding vendor lock ins and the associated costs and limitations. Other benefits include overcoming data gravity, leveraging purpose-built resources for your different business needs and enhancing disaster recovery capabilities.
Marc Linster
I agree that data gravity is an issue that is often underestimated
James Maguire
@marclinster Sometimes grossly underestimated!
digitalmarks
A1: Motivations for choosing multi-cloud are going to vary. For some it’s a strategy motivated by a desire to align their needs with the strengths of cloud providers, or to optimize cost or performance. For others, it’s a necessity driven by data regulation or security governance
Carolyn Duby
A1:There is also seasonality to consider
Krishnaprasath "KP" Hari
A1: Organizations are adopting multicloud to scale their services, increase agility and reduce their dependence on one cloud service provider or environment.
There are several advantages to having a multicloud strategy such as obtaining best of breed services and avoiding...