How to get the multi-cloud business advantage

Without sacrificing security or control

Published April 2016

Organizations continue to embrace the cost and agility advantages of public, private and multi-cloud technologies despite apparent and actual business risks. (More on these below.) In January 2015, for example, 88 percent of surveyed organizations indicated they were using public cloud, while 63 percent said they were using private cloud. The same survey showed that hybrid cloud (or multi-cloud) is the preferred deployment strategy— with 82 percent of enterprises implementing hybrid (multi-cloud) configurations, up from 74 percent in 2014.