A2: Most companies have at least a few apps in multiple clouds, so they can claim they are already 'multi cloud'. However, typical enterprises are 10-30% in Cloud A, 1-10% in Cloud B, and 1-2% in Cloud C, with 50-90% still on-premise.
A3: Controversial take: The degree to which enterprises have hitched their strategic wagons to “lifting and shifting” existing legacy workloads, the more “confused & challenged” they are with multicloud deployments
A2: Enterprises I work with are in different places wrt their multicloud strategies, but the overriding point is that the vast majority HAVE a multicloud strategy.
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 #eweek
A3: Enterprises devise their strategy to run critical workloads in a multicloud deployment scenario for two reasons: 1) because of the inherent #reliability & #security risks in a single supplier solution...
A3: 2) the growing risk of being trapped on an expensive platform with high costs to integrate. The challenges lie with the implementation and the management of a multicloud deployment.
A3: Companies that adopted multi-cloud in silos, where individuals or BU's took advantage of the ease of signing up, end up in a world where individuals view it as a success, while those with a 10k foot view are uncomfortable or confused about how to manage the sprawl.
A3: Conversely, companies that embraced multi-cloud with a clear strategy, instituting best practices and controls around the building, managing, and governing their cloud presence, will feel much more comfortable.
A3: Multicloud can seem daunting but defining a strategy and adopting a multi-function platform that is natively multicloud helps the team to place it's focus on delivering business value rather than re-learning different services on different clouds.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
