A3: The clouds are disparate enough in services and APIs that each has its own learning curve. Most CIOs I talk to say they are becoming competent on one cloud, and still early learning on the others.
A4 Multicloud management tools are lacking. For example, tools to make sure that patch levels are maintained, RBAC and security guidelines are aligned, that configurations don't drift, are still missing #eweekchat
A4: The biggest pain points our customers share are 1) ensuring interoperability between applications and services across multicloud 2) increased operational complexity 3) increased training requirements and a smaller pool of skilled resources.
A4: Hands down, management and governance. From monitoring spending and performance to data management and DevSecOps. It’s difficult and you need to be intentional.
A4: Managing the multi-cloud application lifecycle is a top challenge. Building on disparate services, testing interoperability of application landscapes (including with onpremise applications) and managing these consistently.
A4: Companies also struggle on the portability tradeoff. Taking advantage of cloud-specific services may accelerate project velocity but inhibit future workload movement.
A3: Enterprises that have emphasized a cloud-native first strategy (usually via containers), with Kubernetes as an underpinning, have found multicloud substantially less challenging
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.
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