Just as the name suggests, multi-cloud management is a concept where enterprises choose more than 1 cloud platform to perform different tasks, as organizations want to leverage the best benefits offered by a variety of cloud computing providers for better and safer data management.

Well, this might sound very interesting (it is), but development, implementation, and maintenance of a multi-cloud strategy aren’t easy. And this especially is true for organizations making a debut into cloud migration or the ones operating on a single cloud platform and are now gearing up to adopt something complex and interesting.

So, before we dive deeper, let’s have a recap of the basics:

What is multi-cloud?

As the name suggests, multi-cloud is a cluster of cloud computing and storage service platforms in a single network architecture. Primarily used to get rid of reliance on 1 single cloud provider, it is a concept that refers to the distribution of cloud assets, applications, software, and more, across several cloud ecosystems. Additionally, a multi-cloud architecture can be a combination of two or more private and public clouds.

5 things you need to know about multi-cloud management

1. Maintain a playbook

To make multi-cloud work seamlessly, it is essential for organizations to have a playbook with real requirements and the analysis of tasks to be addressed by a multi-cloud strategy. Next, creating a roadmap is a must to ensure that the team follows the strategy as it develops.

According to Meg Ramsey, VP Cloud Services Product Management at Sungard Availability Services, “When developing a multi-cloud strategy, it is critical that the IT leaders have a strong understanding of the requirements for their full portfolio of applications.” She adds, “Using a multi-cloud strategy is the 80/20 rule at work: it is about selecting a few providers that can handle 80% of their portfolio’s requirements, and then creating an execution framework.”

2. Multi-cloud can be your shield

Leveraging the power of multi-cloud is a great way to utilize cloud services by different providers. This also is a great strategy to eliminate single points of failure in the most critical business processes.

Well, this indeed is the most important factor why businesses invest in multi-cloud services. In a way, multi-cloud management protects businesses against disasters and loss of data.

Basically, if you have everything on one single cloud-platform and it goes down, poof, everything can collapse. Hence, multi-cloud acts as a shield.

3. Maintenance is a must

Well, once you get your business on multi-cloud does not mean data is protected instantly. You might get better protection from outages, but you still need to work on data backup.

So, no matter how robust the multi-cloud deal looks, it is inevitable to follow a regular data backup routine and monitor data backup policies.

Conclusion

It’s interesting to know that a multi-cloud strategy offers your business the benefits of leveraging cloud computing services from different cloud giants such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.

So, as businesses believe in the benefits of cloud, they are adapting to the multi-cloud strategy at a faster rate. And elements such as vendor lock-in savior, increased redundancy, and controlled cost are just a few from the long list that makes businesses look out for multi-cloud options.

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