Prior to the growing trend of multi-cloud, there was vendor lock-in earlier. It wasn't as bad as it sounds, but organisations were limited to using resources from a single cloud vendor.
It was as if a boundary had been etched, preventing the organisation from scaling its resources in the required manner.
Then came the evolutionary model of cloud computing, the multi-cloud environment.
This involved choosing the best services from various cloud providers, making it look like one, combined cloud environment from the user's perspective. From the emergence of multi-cloud, organisations are now at a point where functioning without the multi-cloud environment is close to impossible.
In the state of the cloud report by Flexera, about 80% of organisations reported embracing a multi-cloud approach for the present and the years to come. So, if you're an organisation part of a multi-cloud strategy or are entering one, this blog outlines the main trends and tips on cost optimization to make the most of the features it has to offer.
What is multi-cloud?
The terms public and private clouds have become way too familiar and a mandatory inclusion in any company's IT strategy. But the pros and cons of both, and the scaling demands of organisations have led to industries making a shift to multi-cloud.
Multi-cloud computing is when organisations opt to use services from multiple cloud service providers. These include vendors such as Amazon Web Services, IBM, Azure, Google Cloud and so on. But here's the catch. All these services are used simultaneously by the organisation, for different workload requirements.
In general, this approach helps the organisation take care of their resources better, and choose the right storage requirements and the services they need from more than a single cloud provider. This multi-cloud strategy is a unique take on having different cloud features from different vendors under one architecture. This makes the most of cloud computing technology, as a single vendor may not be able to provide all the services that an organisation may need.
Click to read more: https://www.toobler.com/blog/multi-cloud-trends