How To Ensure Flexibility in a Hybrid Multicloud Strategy

Enterprises are moving rapidly to diverse cloud models, including
hybrid cloud, multicloud and connected cloud networks called interclouds. Forrester Research reports that 62% of public cloud adopters are using at least two unique cloud platforms and that 74% of enterprises characterize their strategy as hybrid or multicloud.

Implementing a hybrid multicloud with efficiency and effectiveness can be a major undertaking, particularly for established enterprises with decades of stored data, old applications, and end-of-life servers eating up rack space. Many organizations are already operating with some sort of heterogeneous infrastructure, and the addition of multiple clouds only contributes to that complexity. Expansion of the cloud surface demands new strategies for data protection that apply to data wherever it is. And as customers venture into new cloud territory, there is a looming fear of vendor lock-in.