More proof that we live in a multi-cloud world

Grazed from Fortune.  Author: Barb Darrow.

If your company, like most, runs some stuff in the cloud plus non-cloud-ready databases or enterprise apps, RightScale may have a management tool for you.  There’s lots of evidence showing that when companies move workloads to the cloud, they are apt to use more than one cloud.

Part of the reason is that different constituencies spin up their own cloud operations outside the normal IT approval process. It’s also true that most companies still run some older databases and enterprise applications that do not lend themselves to cloud deployment…

High input-output applications often do better in non-virtualized environments that run without an operating system directly on the hard drive. Those “bare metal” environments mean applications don’t have to pay the virtualization tax, a performance hit attributed to running hypervisors atop computing resources…

Read more from the source @ http://fortune.com/2015/09/25/multi-cloud-management/