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DAMON CRAWFORD,
PLATFORM PRACTICE
DIRECTOR, SIX DEGRE
Multi-cloud is cloud computing’s
present and future. Today’s
EMEA organisations are using
multiple cloud providers throughout their
infrastructure estates, with a recent survey
by Gartner finding that 81% of respondents
worked with two or more providers. The
reasons? There are plenty, but what it all
comes down to is agility.
At Six Degrees, we see two classes of
multi-cloud adopter: SMEs, who tend to
use one or two cloud providers, and larger
enterprises, who will often use three, four
or more. The distinction really comes down
to scale – of operations, application estate,
geographic spread – as the benefits of
multi-cloud are achievable by almost any
size of organisation.
When we talk to organisations that are
considering their multi-cloud strategy, they
often highlight to us how multi-cloud meets
their sourcing requirements: spreading
commercial risk by reducing vendor lock-in,
achieving appropriate data sovereignty,
meeting regulatory requirements and so on.
Sometimes cloud providers are introduced
through application necessity – if your
organisation wants to deploy PeopleSoft,
for example, it makes sense to host on
Oracle Cloud.
These drivers are all compelling. With public
cloud security continually improving and
deployment and management toolkits
becoming more sophisticated and effective,
the barriers to entry are lower than ever
before. However, we believe the true value of
multi-cloud lies in aligning its inherent agility
to organisational drivers.
Containerisation and contemporary DevOps
methods make application development
faster and more secure, enabling
organisations to deliver real world benefits
to their people and end-users faster than
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