CIO OPINION
Multiple clouds are not multi-cloud .
Matt Wallace , CTO of Faction
Myths of multi-cloud : What ’ s standing in the way of a streamlined approach ?
Matt Wallace , CTO of Faction , asks how you can use the cloud to drive your Digital Transformation .
Cloud strategy is on my mind a lot . I ’ m sure I ’ m not the only one . No matter where you are in your evaluation of how to use the cloud to meet the needs of your business and of your customers , you ’ re likely trying to evaluate your plans judiciously .
How can you use the cloud to access emerging tech , scale-up , reduce costs , innovate and address the varied key initiatives that drive your Digital Transformation ?
Finding out what others are doing can be helpful .
The 2021 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey provides valuable benchmarks on this front . But one stat in particular jumped out at me : 76 % of respondents say that they ’ re already ‘ multi-cloud ’, which HashiCorp calls , ‘ the de facto standard for IT organizations of all shapes and sizes .’
Behind that statistic is a complex , sometimes confusing , story of what ‘ multi-cloud ’ actually is and how it ’ s being adopted . Much of it is based on myths . These need to be debunked in order to fully understand and successfully implement a multicloud strategy that allows your organization to rely on streamlined usage of multiple clouds and multiple cloud services .
Myth # 1 : Multi-cloud has a single , agreed-upon definition
I define ‘ multi-cloud ’ as the approach of combining a variety of cloud services , supplied from more than a single cloud provider , for strategic benefit . These may include public clouds ( such as AWS , Google Cloud Platform , Microsoft Azure , and Oracle Cloud ), private cloud and can include certain SaaS services .
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