Analysis: Multi-Cloud computing benefits and challenges in 2017

By Kristin Knapp

Experts predict multi-cloud computing will be a top enterprise trend in 2017, but some cloud users question whether the touted benefits are worth the jump over significant IT management hurdles.

Some experts say multi-cloud computing, the use of multiple infrastructure-as-a-service providers, is the next major wave of enterprise cloud adoption. For many IT teams, however, the road to multi-cloud nirvana will be a bumpy one.

The multi-cloud trend bubbled to the surface of the enterprise market long before the Amazon Web Services (AWS) invent conference here this week, said William Fellows, vice president at 451 Research. Not only do more enterprises use cloud services today than not, but the majority of them use more than one cloud provider, according to a recent 451 Research survey...

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