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FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
One cloud
just isn’t
enough
What organisations need to
know for a multi-cloud future
With an increasing number
of companies adopting multi-
cloud, organisations should
begin to look for the best
approach to enable them to
reap the full benefits. Intelligent
CIO Europe hears from a
number of experts in this
particular field, who give us
their opinions on how to adopt
the best strategy.
D
ata volumes are continuing to boom for organisations
in all sectors and with hundreds of storage options to
choose from, the question of where to optimally store
data is becoming increasingly difficult. Every workload
and application has its own place and the age-old ‘one
size fits all’ strategy isn’t sufficient anymore. With so many options
and different requirements, why should we have to choose one cloud
option if we can use two or more and reap better rewards? The term
‘multi-cloud’ has been appearing on IT agendas for some time, but the
technology now exists to fully utilise the concept accordingly. But it’s
not always been as simple as it sounds. Below, industry experts from the
storage world discuss what IT teams need to know when adopting a
truly multi-cloud strategy, what challenges they might come across and
how to overcome them.
Enlisting the expertise of a third party
“Multi-cloud is the new normal, with more than 85% of enterprise
IT organisations committing to multi-cloud architectures by 2018,
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