“Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility”- Prof. John McCarthy at MIT’s centennial celebration in 1961.
The idea of cloud computing isn’t new. Perhaps, it took several decades for cloud computing to become a commercial phenomenon. Today, cloud has become an integral part of enterprise business strategy. Research firm Gartner predicts that 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and estimates that over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30% in 2021.
Organizations might start with either a private cloud or a single public cloud platform when they begin their cloud journey. As cloud adoption increases, organizations realize the need for multiple cloud vendors and start their journey towards a multi-cloud model. In the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) recent research study, Cloud Security and Technology Maturity Survey, 61% of the organizations surveyed indicated that either they utilize hybrid cloud model (36%) or a combination of hybrid and multi-cloud (25%). In addition, organizations are adopting multi-cloud for several key reasons, such as to:
· Leverage best in class features from various Cloud Service Providers (CSP) (29%)
· Avoiding vendor lock-in (21%)
· Reducing cloud concentration risk (16%)
Multi-cloud approaches come with several benefits; though there are challenges as well. In order to realize the intended benefits, several challenges need to be addressed.
Note taken from my article along with Rob Aragao, on Multi Cloud Security: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2022/02/17/multi-cloud-security/
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