The Enterprise’s Multi-Cloud Conundrum

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

It should be pretty obvious by now that most enterprises will not adopt “the cloud” as the next phase of data infrastructure, but many clouds. Indeed, with large numbers of employees embracing a variety of public services to process and store corporate data, many organizations already use multiple clouds without even knowing it.

This could be a huge potential problem even beyond the obvious questions of security and availability. If the deployment of cloud services is allowed to continue in a piecemeal fashion, the enterprise could very well end up recreating the same silo-based infrastructure that currently diminishes performance in the data center…


The trick, of course, will be to manage multiple clouds as one, says Dave Cope, executive vice president of corporate development at CliQr. The simple fact that virtually every application requires a unique set of infrastructure, services and support means that a “one-size-fits-all” cloud is not in the cards for most organizations. This is why the company developed its CloudCenter platform, to give organizations a one-stop-shop for migrating, governing and managing applications across disparate cloud ecosystems…

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