In 2014, the market witnessed a massive migration to the cloud as enterprises finally overcame their fears of the cloud’s viability, security, etc.
Over the past 18 months, AWS, Google and Microsoft have waged an ongoing battle through a wave of price cuts and new features. For IT executives, sorting through all the noise to make the best cloud investment decisions has become daunting.
Enterprises can and are moving away from a “one size fits all” cloud approach. The new competitive field has been a boon to small and large businesses as cloud prices have plummeted. Companies now have the option to distribute their cloud workloads across multiple clouds from different vendors. With the emergence and growing adoption of multi-cloud, enterprises can gain a new level of flexibility around the cloud services they may need based on preferences and requirements, ranging from security, reliability, performance and cost reduction.