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The top-four drivers for multi-cloud:
• The desire to improve efficiency and cut
costs (47%)
• The need to move applications and data
closer to users (43%)
• Safeguards against single-vendor cloud
failures (32%)
• The desire to access new solutions and
technologies (28%)
The top-four benefits for multi-cloud:
• Redundancy and disaster recovery (61%)
• Cost optimisation (50%)
• Performance optimisation (47%)
• Using the best cloud environment for
specific workloads (34%)
• Acquiring the necessary skills and
expertise (37%)
• Dealing with increased management
complexity (33%)
• Achieving centralised visibility and
management across clouds (33%)
The top-four requirements for improving
multi-cloud security and performance:
• Centralised visibility and analytics into
security and performance (56%)
• Automated tools to speed response times
and reduce costs (54%)
• Centralised management from a single
point of control (50%)
• Greater security scale and performance to
handle increased traffic (38%)
Security tops IT to-do list
Respondents report facing a long list
of challenges in managing multi-cloud
compute environments, with security at the
top of their agenda.
The top-four challenges for multi-cloud:
• Ensuring security across all
clouds, networks, applications and
data (63%)
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The top-four security specific solution needs:
• Centralised authentication (62%)
• Centralised security policies (46%)
• Web application firewalls (40%)
• DDoS protection (33%)
Survey methodology
In partnership with A10 Networks, the
BPI Network conducted a global survey of
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38% OF
COMPANIES HAVE
OR WILL REASSESS
THEIR CURRENT
RELATIONSHIPS
WITH SECURITY
AND LOAD
BALANCER
SUPPLIERS IN
LIGHT OF MULTI-
CLOUD.
IT professionals and business executives
to understand the state of multi-cloud
deployments worldwide, including their
priorities, intentions and concerns. The study
includes responses from 127 participants
across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific,
South America, Africa and the Middle East. n
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