Cloud and DevOps are independent but mutually reinforcing strategies for delivering business value through IT. A hybrid or multi-cloud workload deployment offers the advantage of high resiliency, combined with the agility to adapt quickly to changing digital business requirements. Multi-cloud is quickly becoming the de-facto deployment standard as organizations of all types leverage an ever-increasing variety of cloud computing services.
Key factors that influence multi-cloud deployment strategies are:
- Best-of-breed” service offering
- Cost to IT Ops and enterprise licensing
- Choice of technology stack for IaaS/PaaS/FaaS services
- M and amp;A and data sovereignty, which plays a vital role on the decisionmaking process